by Laura Piché
December 2, 2011
Sexual abuse, especially of children, strikes a chord in our hearts, activates our protective instincts, offends our sense of dignity as human beings, and makes us wonder how we could have prevented such atrocities. The emotions swirl and escalate. Too many times we’ve heard about people in power using sexual acts to dominate and degrade others. [...]
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by Joelle Depeyrot
November 9, 2011
Faces, hundreds of faces are what I recall of the 11 months I spent in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo working as a mental health officer with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). People ask me: “So … How was it?” I try to respond. But I can’t answer in [...]
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