Nothing Without Women (Rien sans les Femmes) is a feminist organization established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2015.
[1] The group had two aims: to ensure that the Parity Act was passed into law, and to revise electoral law to ensure that women candidates must be included on all electoral lists.
Group campaigns were easily recognizable by their use of vividly coloured patterned cloth, worn as headscarves, dresses, skirts or bags.
[3] In August 2018 the group's spokesperson Solange Lwashiga Furaha expressed concern that only 12% of candidates for the 2018 general election were women: The fact that there is less than 15 per cent of women is a significant issue.
There is lack of resources within the electoral campaigns, there is lack of resources to encourage voters to go out and vote for women, and there are also problems surrounding the voting machines.