Judy Rever explains as a journalist her experience of the suffering of women from the Great Lakes region, particularly those from Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. In this address which prepared for a conference organized on April 05 2014 Réseau International des femmes pour la démocratie et la paix, section belge, she highlights how western journalists including herself have failed their profession by not informing the way this should be: without covering up responsibilities and truth.