November 2009
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Congo's Conflict Gold Photos →
The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is fueled by a thriving gold trade today, with armed groups controlling mines and earning an estimated $50 million last year from selling gold and minerals.
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Congo and Peacekeeping Operation: Oxfam's Demands... →
This wednesday (November 25th), Oxfam met with UN Security Council Ambassadors to present over 6500 signatures from concerned citizens in more than 130 countries, all demanding an end to UN’s disastrous support for the Congolese army’s military offensive aimed at disarming the rebel group FDLR.
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UN peace mission fuelling violence in Congo,... →
Security force costing $1bn a year has not defeated Rwandan Hutu rebels or halted plunder of lucrative minerals, experts find. The world’s biggest UN peacekeeping mission has been branded a failure by experts who say it is fuelling a surge of murders and rapes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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U.N. Report Says Congo’s Army Aids Rebel Groups →
New York Times reports that Congolese Army continues to funnel weapons to rebel groups that are smuggling gold and other minerals out of the country
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UN 'failing' in fight against DR Congo rebels →
UN report says UN has exacerbated the humanitarian crisis
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Live Blogging from the trial of DRC warlords →
Coming up on Wednesday, the Coalition for the International Criminal Court will be live blogging Sessions with NGO experts on trial of DRC warlords Katanga and Ngudjolo
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How You Can Help Restore Peace in Congo →
Kate Ausburn writes on tresviva.com about the crisis in the Congo.
ACT NOW: SIGN THE PETITION
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Second Trial of Congolese Warlords →
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) joint trial of two Congolese rebel leaders offers victims the chance to see accountability for atrocities committed in Congo’s armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said today.
ONE DAY LEFT TO TAKE ACTION ON THE CONGO - SIGN THE PETITION NOW
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UN Operations In Congo: A Dangerous Strategy →
Jen Nedeau, Women’s Rights blogger at Change.org, explains that despite killing over five million people the crisis in Congo receives little media attention. Meanwhile, the situation in Congo has only grown worse, especially for women and girls, who are the victims of mass rapes and mutilation.
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Use your blog to bring urgent change to Congo →
Here are four things you can do to stop the killing in the Congo
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Justice for Congo – 100 years on →
Letter in the UK Guardian highlighting the issue of conflict in DRC 100 years on from a historic demonstration at the Albert Hall in London.
Act now sign the petition
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The Conventional Arms Control Challenge →
#ArmsTreaty - Frida Berrigan writes in the Huffington post about the intersection between nuclear and conventional disarmament.
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Trinidad & Tobago Beg for Solidarity on an... →
Kate Ausburn writes: As an individual who is optimistic about achieving peace and living in a society free from abuse, it can be difficult to understand objections to the implementation of a comprehensive and universal Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).
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Poverty and unemployment fuel the conflict... →
New research from Oxfam shows ordinary Afghans blame government weakness and corruption as the second most important factor behind the fighting, with the Taliban coming third, followed by interference by neighboring countries.
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CRISIS IN CONGO →
Ity tantara ity dia mampalaholo tokoa ary izay no nahatonga ahy hanoratra sy hanaitra ny olona amin
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UN denies complicity in Congo war crimes →
But with thousands dead, raped or homeless, others disagree
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Congo gold 'still funding'... →
Sanction busters are smuggling 40 tonnes of gold annually out of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations official has told the BBC. Dino Mahtani said most of the gold was controlled by rebel groups who use the proceeds to buy arms.
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Time To Rethink →
Should New Delhi rethink its position on the #ArmsTreaty? Times of India comment piece
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights say... →
In a debate yesterday the United Nations Security Council discussed the pressing, but still elusive issue of protection of civilians in armed conflict. Perhaps nowhere is more evident than in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where a long drawn-out conflict has made millions of victims and where sexual violence has been at epidemic levels for many years.
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Time for an #ArmsTreaty →
David Miliband and Bernard Kouchner write about progress to an Arms Trade Treaty and highlight the engagement of NGOs and civil society
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In pictures: Behind Congo's rebel lines →
Stunning slide show from one of the frontlines in Lukweti, 100km north-west of Goma. BBC photographer Thomas Fessy went behind rebel lines where DR Congo’s government forces, with the assistance of UN peacekeepers, are trying to crush various rebel groups.
Sign the petition to stop the killing in DR Congo now!
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Consensus rules the #ArmsTreaty. Or does it? →
Blog from Tim Caughley on Disarmament Insight. Tim is a Resident Senior Fellow at UNIDIR.
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Rampant Insecurity in South Kivu →
Noel Atama, Bukavu, South Kivu — The commanders of the Kimia II offensive here in South Kivu are quick to provide detailed figures on the number of rebels from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, or FDLR, they have killed or caused to surrender to back up their positive assessment of the military operation. But these numbers provide little comfort to communities paying the...
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What can a person can do to get her love back? →
Françoise Mukuku - Last month I was in Ruzizi plain, in South Kivu, DRC in one of the villages where thousands of displaced people are trying to survive far from their houses, their farms and for many of them, far from the only place they will ever call home.
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Of Arms and the Man: the global arms trade and the... →
Blogger Lila Shahani on the #ArmsTreaty and the Philippines
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#NRA push polling "a flat out lie" on UN... →
A UN Dispatch reader in New Hampshire was at the receiveing end of a National Rifle Association push poll about the Obama administration’s decision to join a treaty process at the UN to limit the sale of small arms to irresponsible end-users, like militias that use child soldiers. From our man in the north country:
I just got a call from the National Rifle Association that was about...
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MSF vaccination used as bait in attack on... →
Seven Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) vaccination sites, where thousands of civilians had gathered, came under fire during attacks by the Congolese army against the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). MSF denounces this clearly unacceptable abuse of humanitarian aid for military purposes.
Stop the killing in the Congo - sign the...
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Watch Naomi's story and take action to STOP the... →
Naomi Daniela is 45 years old and lives in Eastern Congo:
“One night those men came and grabbed my husband from our house. I tried to stop them. They pushed me away then one of them stabbed me in my shoulder”
Watch Naomi’s story and take action NOW to help stop the killing in Africa’s forgotten war www.oxfam.org/drc
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Eastern DR Congo: Surge in Army Atrocities →
Human Rights Watch report on conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. “Most victims women, children & elderly. Some were decapitated, others chopped to death” Act now: sign the petition
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UN Starts World's First #ArmsTreaty: Will It Work? →
Evelyn Leopold writes on Huffington Post
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U.S. Agrees To Negotiate International #ArmsTreaty... →
ConflictVoice blogger Jen Nedeau on the outcome of the last few weeks talks at the UN on the Arms Trade Treaty