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  • USAID Hosts UNFPA Exhibit Congo/Women Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo 30 Nov 2009 22:21 GMT
    ... the exhibition Congo/Women Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo. Gender-based violence is a pervasive public health and human rights issue. Around the world, at least one ... widespread sexual and gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. USAID programs have provided treatment services for ...

  • Trail begins on human rights abuses in DRC 25 Nov 2009 12:14 GMT
    ... Trail begins on human rights abuses in DRC Foreign Office Minister Baroness Kinnock welcomed the role ... rights abuses during the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Baroness Kinnock said: "The beginning of trial ...

  • Trial begins on human rights abuses in DRC 25 Nov 2009 13:34 GMT
    ... Trial begins on human rights abuses in DRC Baroness Kinnock welcomed the role the International Criminal ... rights abuses during the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 'The beginning of trial proceedings yesterday (Tuesday ...

  • UN denies complicity in Congo human rights abuses after leaked report 1 Dec 2009 07:25 GMT
    ... UN denies complicity in Congo human rights abuses after leaked report The United Nations has denied complicity ... complicity in human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after its own report was leaked ...

  • Human Rights Watch calls for arrest of Ntaganda 24 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... Human Rights Watch has called on the Democratic Republic of Congo to arrest former rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda. The appeal comes on the eve of ...

  • Fears Forest Proposals Are 'Human Rights Disaster' 26 Nov 2009 13:50 GMT
    ... the tropical forests of Uganda, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Cameroon. But it's here in Scandinavia, ... This law could turn into a "massive human rights disaster" if it is not worded correctly, warned environmentalist Tove Maria Ryding ...

  • EUROPE/ITALY - International Day Against the Death Penalty: 1,150 cities around the world to abolish the death penalty and respect for human rights 30 Nov 2009 13:31 GMT
    ... abolish the death penalty and respect for human rights Rome (Fides Service) - Today, November 30 is World Day ... (Bujumbura, Ngozi), Chad (N'Djamena), Mozambique (Maputo), DR Congo (Bukavu, Goma, Kinshasa) Malawi (Blantyre, Lilongwe), Mali (Bamako), Burkina Faso ...

  • Rights group urges Kinshasa to arrest 'war criminal' 24 Nov 2009 04:35 GMT
    ... AFP/File – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to arrest former ... (HRW) on Monday urged the government of the Democratic Republic ...

  • Activists say UN policy must change in DR Congo 26 Nov 2009 11:15 GMT
    ... say UN policy must change in DR Congo Kinshasa - Rights activists have urged the ... UN to change its policy in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a leaked report said the rebellion ... report said the rebellion there was worsening. Human Rights Watch called for a greater effort to tackle a global crime network ...

  • UN-DR Congo rebel fight 'failing' 25 Nov 2009 11:35 GMT
    ... UN-backed operations against rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have failed, a leaked report says. The ... support for the operations despite opposition from human rights groups and aid agencies. The BBC is not responsible for the ...

  • Congo's constitution: Democracy under threat (Nov 19th) 26 Nov 2009 19:57 GMT
    ... Is Congo’s President Joseph Kabila flirting with dictatorship? AFTER ... in deadly street battles in the capital, Kinshasa. Soon afterwards he clamped down on parliament’s ... Woudenberg of the New York-based lobby group, Human Rights Watch. “It’s becoming more and more difficult for people ...

  • Congo's constitution: Democracy under threat 23 Nov 2009 19:22 GMT
    ... Is Congo’s President Joseph Kabila flirting with dictatorship? AFTER ... in deadly street battles in the capital, Kinshasa. Soon afterwards he clamped down on parliament’s ... Woudenberg of the New York-based lobby group, Human Rights Watch. “It’s becoming more and more difficult for people ...

  • UN report: Congo rebel network spans 25 countries 25 Nov 2009 16:10 GMT
    ... UN report: Congo rebel network spans 25 countries CONAKRY, Guinea ... to pieces with machetes, according to U.S.-based Human Rights Watch. The phone logs show that just before and just ... Congo. Associated Press writers Patrice Citera in Kinshasa, Congo and John Heilprin at the United ...

  • UN report: Congo rebel support spans 25 countries, including US and some in Europe 26 Nov 2009 06:50 GMT
    ... UN report: Congo rebel support spans 25 countries, including US ... to pieces with machetes, according to U.S.-based Human Rights Watch. The phone logs show that just before and just ... Congo. Associated Press writers Patrice Citera in Kinshasa, Congo and John Heilprin at the United ...

  • 4 dead in Congo's capital after jail cell wall falls during attempted prison escape 30 Nov 2009 13:27 GMT
    ... 4 dead in Congo's capital after jail cell wall falls during ... cell wall falls during attempted prison escape KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A police official says ... only had the capacity to hold 30. Human rights groups have cited poor prison conditions as a reason for ...

  • 4 dead in Congo after attempted prison escape 30 Nov 2009 13:28 GMT
    ... 4 dead in Congo after attempted prison escape KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - A police official says ... only had the capacity to hold 30. Human rights groups have cited poor prison conditions as a reason for ...

  • Congo rebel network spans 25 countries 25 Nov 2009 16:31 GMT
    ... the network of people help rebels in Congo buy arms and transfer money. The findings ... to pieces with machetes, according to U.S.-based Human Rights Watch. The phone logs show that just before and just ... Congo. Associated Press writers Patrice Citera in Kinshasa, Congo and John Heilprin at the United ...

  • UN report: Congo rebel network spans 25 countries 25 Nov 2009 16:41 GMT
    ... The Congolese army has also been funneling weapons and ... to pieces with machetes, according to U.S.-based Human Rights Watch. The phone logs show that just before and just ... Congo. Associated Press writers Patrice Citera in Kinshasa, Congo and John Heilprin at the United ...

  • U.N.: Congo rebel network spans 25 countries 25 Nov 2009 17:50 GMT
    ... the network of people help rebels in Congo buy arms and transfer money. The findings ... to pieces with machetes, according to U.S.-based Human Rights Watch. The phone logs show that just before and just ... Congo. Associated Press writers Patrice Citera in Kinshasa, Congo and John Heilprin at the United ...

  • Congo rebel network spans 25 countries 25 Nov 2009 19:16 GMT
    ... the network of people help rebels in Congo buy arms and transfer money. The findings ... to pieces with machetes, according to U.S.-based Human Rights Watch. The phone logs show that just before and just ... ___ Associated Press writers Patrice Citera in Kinshasa, Congo and John Heilprin at the United ...

  • 4 dead in Congo after attempted prison escape 30 Nov 2009 13:01 GMT
    ... 2009 4:40 a.m. PT 4 dead in Congo after attempted prison escape KINSHASA, Congo -- A police official says four ... only had the capacity to hold 30. Human rights groups have cited poor prison conditions as a reason for ...

  • UN-DR Congo rebel fight 'failing' 25 Nov 2009 16:13 GMT
    ... now control. The BBC's Thomas Fessy, in Kinshasa, says the report's authors recognise that there ... Monuc, the UN's peacekeeping mission in DR Congo, of protecting civilians and backing the military. ... support for the operations despite opposition from human rights groups and aid agencies. Supplying arms to FDLR; high-level contact between ...

  • What Is the African Union? 24 Nov 2009 11:31 GMT
    ... participation and good governing in Africa. Protecting human rights in accordance with the African Charter on ... Central African Republic Chad Comoros Cote d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia ...

  • The decade the world turned 28 Nov 2009 03:11 GMT
    ... - and still rages - in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where well over 5 million people (the ... ally such as Israel. Advances in global human rights (like the trials of war criminals such ...

  • One man's defence of a national reputation 22 Nov 2009 12:32 GMT
    ... against anti-mining activists. In Mexico, allegations of human rights and environmental abuse that led a Mexican ... accused of illegally exploiting resources from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has been in a state of ...


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