“Vet documaker Lisa F. Jackson offers a harrowing look at violence against women as a war crime in "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo." Lensing is exceptional through this distressing and disturbing doc…”
– Joe Leydon, Variety
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- “Should Rape Be Considered a Weapon?”, Day to Day, NPR 19-Jun-08
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It’s already thought of as a war crime, but now the United Nations Security Council is asking whether rape should be classified as a weapon of war. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad says he was inspired to speak on this issue by a documentary chronicling the plight of rape victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Madeleine Brand talks to filmmaker Lisa Jackson about how her film has helped to make the issue of sexual violence a mainstream conversation.
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- NPR/BBC 17-Jun-08
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According to this story, the debate at the UN Security Council was inspired by “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo”
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- On The Circuit 16-Jun-08
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Interview with Lisa F. Jackson by Jim Rohner
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- The Diane Rehm Show, NPR 28-Apr-08 (Audio)
- All Things Concidered, NPR 9-Apr-08 (Audio)
- On the Circuit Podcast 23-Mar-08
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