Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee Hearing on Rape and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones

Senators Boxer and Feingold To Co-Chair Hearing Focusing on Sudan and the Congo

WASHINGTON DC, May 13 – Today, U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) will preside over a joint senate foreign relations subcommittee hearing titled, “Confronting Rape and Other Forms of Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones.” The hearing will focus specifically on Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).


The hearing is part of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women’s Issues and the Subcommittee on African Affairs.

Witnesses include:

Panel 1: The Honorable Melanne Verveer,
Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues,
Department of State; The Honorable Esther Brimmer, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, Department of State; and Mr. Phil Carter, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs,
Department of State.


Panel 2:
Eve Ensler,
Founder, V-Day, New York, New York;
Neimat Ahmadi Darfuri, Liaison Officer, Save Darfur Coalition, Washington, DC; Chouchou Namegabe, President and Founder, South Kivu Women’s Media Association,
Democratic Republic of Congo; Robert Warwick,
Executive Director, U.S. Programs, Baltimore Office, International Rescue Committee,
Former Country Director, Southern Sudan and DRC; and John Prendergast, Co-Founder, The Enough Project, Washington, DC.

WHEN: Wednesday, May 13 at 2:30 pm ET.

WHERE: Room 419, Dirksen Senate Office Building



The hearing will be streamed on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee web site.

For more information about the hearing, contact: Zachary Coile or Sarah Misailidis (Boxer) (202) 224-8120 or Zach Lowe (Feingold) (202) 224-8657.

Additionally, the Congo/Women: Portraits of War: Democratic Republic of Congo will be on display from May 11-15 in the Russell Rotunda, Russell Senate Building. There will be a reception on Wednesday, May 15 from 5-7 pm in Russell Senate Office Building Hearing Room 332.

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