Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) presents the film LUMO: One Women’s Struggle to Heal in a Nation Beset by War, Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 7 PM at Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto.
The film is centered around Lumo, a young victim of sexual violence, living in Kivu provinces, in the Eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The DRC has experienced a prolonged period of horrifying civil war that has claimed more lives than any conflict since WWII.
Similar subject matter was explored in A Love During War, which closed this year’s Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
Following the film, Congolese Lawyer and Human Rights Activist Mimi Kashira is joined by Kigali Radio Contact (Rwanda) Producer Lauren Vopni as well as Canadian Human Rights Activist Cheryl Sutherland to discuss the realities on the ground in Kivu.
All proceeds from the screening will go to JHR’s operations in Central and West Africa.
