1. The Democratic Republic of
Congo
-The country was first formed in 1885 as the Congo Free State, then went
through multiple name changes including Belgian Congo(1908-1960),
Republic of the Congo(1960-1971),Zaire(1971-1997) before its current
naming.
-Also know as Zaire The Democratic Republic of Congo is the largest country in
Sub-Saharan Africa with a total area of 905,600 sq miles.
-Zaire’s official language used by the government and most large cities is
French.
- There are four other nationally recognized indigenous languages Kikongo,
Lingala, Swahili, and Tshiluba aside from the other over 200 not recognized
languages.

2. Problem
I would Like to try and solve the problem of Women's rights, or rather the lack
of, in my country.
Following the post war era from the civil war of 1998, there are exactly Zero
laws protecting women from domestic violence and sexist acts in the
recovering country.
The problem is not only in the lack of law enforcement, but that the culture of
the people doesn't see women as equals so it is very hard for them to get
hired into proper, well paying jobs.
This is a major problem in this country because there are no laws protecting
women’s physical well being. Along with that:
-Only 10.7 percent of women in Democratic Republic of the Congo have a full
education
-Only 56.5% are in a professional labor force and producing income

3. Possible Solutions
The most obvious solution is the addition of many firmly enforced
laws focused on gender equally and the protection of women
physically.
The best solution would be for the culture of my country to change,
fully accepting women as equals.
Since the culture of bordering countries can greatly influence the
culture of mine, if women were treated as equals in a country in
my region that change could influence my people to feel the same
way.
Another unrelated problem is one that many Sub-Saharan countries
face. It is that the country is underdeveloped. So in a effort to solve
this ,yearly I will trade 20 workers for 19,000lbs of steel with the
regional country of Rwanda for tools and modern structures.

4. Solution
Because it is very hard to change the culture of a country and I can’t rely on
another countries to do this, the solution I’ve chosen is to create laws to
protect women’s physical well-being and equality with the hope of
people seeing the benefits of working women and accept them into their
culture. I plan to do this by creating a petition, that all people supporting
gender equality will sign, then showing this to the Congolese government
to begin the law making process.
Since this is a very cultural problem I can’t ask the assistance of international
organizations, but since the culture of bordering countries can greatly
affect mine I have an idea that if we all tried to change it to support
women as equals we could drastically change all of our countries and the
lives of millions of people for the better.