Congo/Women: Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo

ART WORKS PROJECTS 
announces

TWO SHOWS IN ONE WEEK

WASHINGTON, D.C.

MAY 11 – MAY 18, 2009

Congo/Women: Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo,

in partnership with the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media,

Columbia College Chicago

AND

AT WHAT COST _ Human Trafficking/Forced Labor/Child Labor

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Congo/Women

Monday, May 11 to Friday, May 15, 2009

Sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer

Russell Rotunda, Russell Senate Building

In partnership with the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media, Columbia College Chicago and UNFPA
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Hearings held by Sen. Boxer [D, CA] and Sen. Feingold [D, WI]
on the issue of rape being used as a tool of war

 
[Photo: James Whitlow Delano]

  AT WHAT COST

Images from the forthcoming exhibition will be featured in presentations by the International Labor Organization

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Geneva, Switzerland

Thursday, May 14, 2009

New York

Monday, May 18, 2009

Washington, D.C.

International Labor Organization in collaboration with the

Harrison Institute for Public Law at Georgetown University presents

the panel discussion: "Addressing Forced Labor in a Time of Global Economic Crisis"

9:00 AM – 12:40 PM

(more details in attached press release, above)

Congo/Women is an internationally touring photography exhibition that brings media attention to the extreme gender violence continuing to occur in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The exhibition launched in March 2009 and will be presented in September 2009 to the United Nations. Though AT WHAT COST fully launches in fall 2010, its images will first be introduced to the world through presentations by the International Labor Organization. AT WHAT COST undertakes the global problem of human trafficking. An estimated 12.3 million people suffer under forced labor. To shed light on the situation, the exhibition will tour universities, cultural centers, and U.S. embassies worldwide.