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  • 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 ... improve ties with neighbouring Rwanda, in which Kinshasa pledged to stamp out the FDLR, and ...

  • Rebel Nkunda's case to be opened in Rwanda 1 Dec 2009 11:33 GMT
    ... Gen Nkunda. The ongoing case of Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda will come before Rwanda’s Supreme Court, Mr Nkunda’s lawyer said ...

  • Florida's Eckerd College to Launch Yearlong Africa Initiative in January 2010 1 Dec 2009 12:40 GMT
    ... explore issues related to war crimes and human rights, environment and human health, foreign policy and ... on the ; conflict minerals in eastern Congo; and child soldiers in northern Uganda. and subject ...

  • OBAMA'S CZARS 1 Dec 2009 10:40 GMT
    ... views. Daniel Fried - Guantanamo Closure Czar Human Rights activist for Foreign Terrorists. Believes America has ... Sudan Czar Native of Democratic Republic of Congo. Believes US does little to help Third World ...

  • To be equals 1 Dec 2009 00:52 GMT
    ... huge. It has had to balance the human rights of individual soldiers with the collective rights ... peacekeeping duties in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Burundi. It is an important source ...

  • Look, no danger 1 Dec 2009 09:35 GMT
    ... huge. It has had to balance the human rights of individual soldiers with the collective rights ... peacekeeping duties in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Burundi. It is an important source ...

  • SA troops win biggest battle 1 Dec 2009 12:12 GMT
    ... huge. It has had to balance the human rights of individual soldiers with the collective rights ... peacekeeping duties in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Burundi. It is an important source ...

  • IDP convention - now the hard work begins 1 Dec 2009 10:31 GMT
    ... 4.9 million IDPs, the Democratic Republic of Congo, with at least one million, and Somalia, where ... Refugee Convention," the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said. "Until now [IDPs] have ...

  • Wan Condemns Journalists Attacks 1 Dec 2009 13:02 GMT
    ... Other 'terrorist' governments are Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, and Kenya. All these countries were named ... policies, use information deemed classified or unveil human rights abuses. Police raids, abductions and imprisonments remain ...

  • 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 ... (Bujumbura, Ngozi), Chad (N'Djamena), Mozambique (Maputo), DR Congo (Bukavu, Goma, Kinshasa) Malawi (Blantyre, Lilongwe), Mali (Bamako), Burkina Faso ...

  • Rwanda - Kagame's Human Rights Record Faces Scrutiny 30 Nov 2009 11:13 GMT
    ... focusing new attention on the current government's human rights record. In a debate which somewhat echoes ... regime supports itself by looting the neighbouring Congo." These differences of opinion made Rwanda "both important ...

  • 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 attempted ... 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 ...

  • Strife in eastern Congo: Not quite as bloody as before 30 Nov 2009 06:51 GMT
    ... and fear, things could be worse IN CONGO’S wild eastern provinces of North and South ... death this year by Congo’s army, says Human Rights Watch, a New York-based lobby. Many more ...

  • USAID Hosts UNFPA Exhibit Congo/Women Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo 30 Nov 2009 22:21 GMT
    ... by violence, USAID will host the exhibition Congo/Women Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of ... violence is a pervasive public health and human rights issue. Around the world, at least one ...

  • Congo's Gold 30 Nov 2009 23:24 GMT
    ... In June of 2005, Human Rights Watch published " ," a report detailing ... profit from gold mining areas in northeastern Congo. Please enter email addresses separated by commas. HRW.org ...

  • 4 dead in Congo after attempted prison escape 30 Nov 2009 12:58 GMT
    ... 4 dead in Congo after attempted prison escape A police official says ... only had the capacity to hold 30. Human rights groups have cited poor prison conditions as ...

  • UN Must Stop Backing Country's Disastrous Operation Against Marauding Rebel Militias [opinion] 30 Nov 2009 10:32 GMT
    ... Its limited but unconditional support for a Congolese army operation to disarm Rwandan Hutu rebels in ... the rebels, have been accompanied by serious human rights violations, and have prompted massive reprisals against ... within Congolese ranks to help prevent abuses. Kinshasa privately admits that ex-rebels now wearing the ...

  • UN Must Stop Backing Country's Disastrous Operation Against Marauding Rebel Militias [opinion] 30 Nov 2009 11:13 GMT
    ... Its limited but unconditional support for a Congolese army operation to disarm Rwandan Hutu rebels in ... the rebels, have been accompanied by serious human rights violations, and have prompted massive reprisals against ... within Congolese ranks to help prevent abuses. Kinshasa privately admits that ex-rebels now wearing the ...

  • Prison break gone wrong 30 Nov 2009 13:55 GMT
    ... Kinshasa, Congo - A police official says four people died when a ... only had the capacity to hold 30. Human rights groups have cited poor prison conditions as ...

  • 4 dead as jail wall collapses 30 Nov 2009 13:54 GMT
    ... Kinshasa - A police official says four people ... prison escape in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital. Inspector General Jean-de-Dieu Oleko said on Monday ... only had the capacity to hold 30. Human rights groups have cited poor prison conditions as ...

  • CBS News report calls for Kimberley-type process for gold 30 Nov 2009 06:33 GMT
    ... conflict gold in the Democratic Republic of Congo, based upon the already established Kimberley Process for ... officials to monitor and report on alleged human rights violations by Canadian mining companies internationally. "Gold ...

  • Land Grabs - New 'Resource Curse'? [opinion] 30 Nov 2009 15:30 GMT
    ... governments or regimes that engaged in major human rights abuses.' Seen from this angle, the 'food ... the ever-fertile but desperately undernourished and 'impoverished' Congo, where 200 000 hectares of land have been ...

  • Is Continent's Land Up for Grabs? 30 Nov 2009 15:25 GMT
    ... threat to food security and other core human rights. "The stakes are huge," he told Africa ... hectares in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to grow oil palm and a further 2 ...

  • President Confident of Electoral Landslide 30 Nov 2009 13:55 GMT
    ... its election campaign, reports Le Potentiel of Kinshasa. He said it would be impossible for ... saying that according to the rights group, Human Rights Watch, it was doubtful that the electoral ...

  • Ending violence against women should be a priority for us all 30 Nov 2009 22:47 GMT
    ... 10 years, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, soldiers have been raping and mutilating women as ... Violence Against Women, with December 10, International Human Rights Day, to underscore that violence committed against ...


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