Lumo Sinai was just over 20 when marauding soldiers attacked her in the eastern Congo. A fistula, a medical condition common among victims of violent rape, rendered Lumo incontinent and threatens her ability to bear children. Rejected by her fiancé and cast aside by her family, she awaits reconstructive surgery. | Read the synopsis »

A CONVERSATION WITH EVE ENSLER: FEMICIDE IN THE CONGO

Playwright and activist Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues and founder of V-Day, and activist Christine Schuler Deschryver talk to journalist Michele Kort of Ms. Magazine about the horrors of sexual violence and its aftermath in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Find out how you can help.   » 

RETURN TO THE CONGO

Filmmaker Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt returns to the Congo to find out what has happened to Lumo since the end of filming. Watch an interview with Lumo in which she talks about the message she'd like to pass onto women who have lost hope, and read more about what has happened to this remarkable young woman.   »