KINSHASA, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 20 years ago, when Charlotte Songue first arrived in Kisangani, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo s eastern Tshopo province, she was a young Cameroonian lawyer driven by dreams of justice and solidarity. Today, as a senior women protection advisor and gender coordinator at the UN Joint Human Rights Office in the DRC, her name has become synonymous with empathy, determination and quiet strength, qualities she embodies in one of the UN s most demanding humanitarian missions. I was in my twenties when I began in 2006, she recalled in a recent interview with Xinhua in her office in Kinshasa. The professional world was mostly male, but I...
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