@article{ref1,
title="The risks of instrumentalizing the narrative on sexual violence in the DRC: Neglected needs and unintended consequences",
journal="International review of the Red Cross (1999)",
year="2014",
author="Heaton, Laura",
volume="96",
number="894",
pages="625-639",
abstract="Public understanding of humanitarian emergencies tends to focus on one story and one type of victim. Examples are manifold: amputees in Sierra Leone, victims of kidnapping in Colombia, or victims of chemical weapons in Syria. At times, the aid community, and the media in turn, seizes upon a particular injustice - landmines, female genital mutilation and child soldiers are examples from recent decades - and directs resources and attention its way. Similarly, thematic trends tend to dominate aid discourse, with funding proposals to donors replete with references to the framework du jour. In a related phenomenon highlighted by author and aid worker Fiona Terry, &quot;[w]ords are commandeered to give a new gloss to familiar themes: 'capacity building' became 'empowerment', which has now become 'resilience'&quot;. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the conflict has been largely defined by sexual violence, and raped women are its most prominent victims.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1816-3831",
doi="10.1017/S1816383115000132",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1816383115000132"
}