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Exploitation in the DRC fuels mining trade: Apple, Dell look the other way
Prominent US and multinational companies such as Apple, Dell, Motorola, Nokia, and Hewlett-Packard are among the businesses pinpointed as culprits in an unflinching, new report released by Global Witness that…
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Congolese Women Fight Sexual Violence
In a powerful new video Oxfam America shows the fight of Congolese women against sexual violence (thanks to change.org for bringing this to the attention of a wider audience). It…
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DRC: 40,000 Signatures for Obama
When I came to work one day this week, I found two thick packages at my desk: They were filled with signed petitions on ending sexual violence in the Democratic…
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United Nations Must Re-Impose Arms Embargo on DRC Government Forces
According to a UN Panel of Expert’s report released last Friday, government security forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are providing arms and ammunition to the Democratic Liberation…
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A Stronger US Stance Against Mass Atrocities?
With every day that passes, grave human rights violations continue in places like Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burma. President-elect Barack Obama’s recent personnel decisions have fostered speculations…
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Rally Echoes Congolese Plea for Help
[caption id="attachment_405" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Amnesty International activists urge the US government to support the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC. White House, November 23 (c) Msia Clark"][/caption] Rallying in front…
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What Nkunda Wants
[caption id="attachment_381" align="alignleft" width="108" caption="Alice Eve"][/caption] Laurent Nkunda considers himself a man of diplomacy and politics. Unfortunately, whether we agree or not has become academic. This war criminal has a…
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The Worst Crisis You Won't Read About in the News
The DRC, Zimbabwe, Cambodia, Sudan and Nicaragua--all these countries are in crisis right now. How do I know (beyond working at Amnesty International)? I can read about it in the…
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DRC: Protect Civilians NOW!
[caption id="attachment_97" align="alignleft" width="288" caption="(c) Michael Graham/USHMM, July 2008"][/caption] While African and UN leaders today discuss the recent spike in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, civilians continue…
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Amnesty’s Solution to DRC is…More Guns??
I was asked today about Amnesty International’s increasing calls for the UN Security Council to act to reinforce the peacekeeping force currently in DRC (acronym MONUC…it’s French and I can’t find the…
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Tensions in DRC Remain High
The situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo remains fragile, after rebel forces and local militia clashed north of Goma. More than 250,000 people have been displaced by the…