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Welcome to ConflictVoice. We are a group of independent bloggers and campaigners who focus on issues around the impact of conflict on the world's poorest people.Catch up with great posts, pictures and videos- read about what happened during the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations in the UN in October 2009. We had ConflictVoice bloggers at the UN and across the globe highlighting what happened.
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George Forrest embodies the symbiosis of business and politics in the Congo. (He is also very litigation-happy, so I better watch what I say here). There is apparently nothing that the…
The US Supreme Court will soon rule on a case of great importance to the Congo. Well, not really, but it does reveal an interesting loop hole in international diplomacy and law.
In Holder v….
Human Rights - Justice for victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
There was a good article in the Africa-Asia Confidential newsletter last week on the Congo-China deal. (You can read it for free here). According to a parliamentary commission, some $23 million…
As expected, the CNDP is not happy about not getting any cabinet positions in PM Muzito’s new government line-up. ” A violation of the peace deal,” they called it in their press statement. Kabila’s…
NY Times Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof explains how to stay safe and get the story right while covering a global humanitarian crisis. Good tips here for bloggers and journalists alike.
WATCH how your mobile phone is fueling conflict in the Congo
Photographer Rankin found humanity in abundance on his return to Congo in 2009 when he asked villagers to tell him about the people and things they love.
A little update on the Whistle Boys story from a few blogs ago:
According to a friend who was in Goma at the time, the managers of the organization earned the wrath of journalists when they got…
A Doctor and His Patient Dr. Denis Mukwege and his young patient try to assert humanity and dignity in war-torn eastern Congo, Nicholas D. Kristof reports.
NAIROBI, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) - Internally displaced people (IDPs) are still being abducted by armed groups for forced labour in several territories in North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) even as authorities beef up security in IDP camps, officials said.
I’ll put this in the category of weird humanitarian initiatives. I saw this belatedly - the great blog Wronging Rights carried this story about an NGO that sells whistles to raise money to help…
