A selection of articles on the Great Lakes region, genocide prevention, and related issues.
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Publish What You Pay DRC to launch 'Hymn to Transparency' project |
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Written by Sophia Pickles
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Tuesday, 16 August 2011 10:39 |
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Publish What You Pay-DRC, in association with Women and Economic Justice (FEJE), are launching the 'Hymn to Transparency' project.
The project aims to consolidate popular support for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an international inter-governmental initiative to encourage extractive industry transparency and accountability, through the medium of song and popular media. The project is planned for September through December 2011 and is currently searching for funding.
 Read the proposal (French)
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 11:58 |
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Congolese and international NGOs call for accountability for death of DRC activist Pascal Kibembi |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 02 August 2011 11:29 |
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On 31 July 2005, Pascal Kabungulu Kibembi, the Executive Secretary of the Congolese NGO, Heirs of Justice, was assassinated in his home in front of his family, allegedly by a group of men in military uniform. The majority of the suspects are still at large while others have spent six years in prison waiting for the case to be re-opened and for a verdict to be passed.
A coalition of Congolese and international NGOs coordinated by Protection International are particularly concerned that Pascal Kabungulu Kibembi’s case has been blocked and call on all relevant actors to promote accountability for the crime. The case has made no progress since the General Auditor of the High Military Court transmitted the case to the Prosecutor General of the Supreme Court of Justice on 23 March 2009, despite the promises of the Congolese government during a 2006 visit to South Kivu and the efforts of Congolese and international civil society.
Read more online at Protection International (in French) |
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Last Updated on Monday, 08 August 2011 00:51 |
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Congolese and international NGOs condemn attacks on human rights defenders |
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Written by Sophia Pickles
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011 14:42 |
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Protection International and a coalition of international and Congolese non-governmental organisations is calling on the Congolese authorities to respect the physical and psychological integrity of Mr. Justin Bahirwe, Coordinator of the civil society group SOS Information Juridique Multisectorielle (SOS IJM), who has received multiple death threats linked to his activities. Mr Bahirwe currently works on a project financed by European Commission aiming to reinforce the role of civil society in rural areas.
View English-language text of the communique entitled 'DRC: Repeated threats against human rights defender Justin BAHIRWE' |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 13 August 2011 13:21 |
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Congolese MP calls for UK citizens to engage against conflict minerals’ trade |
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Written by Sophia Pickles
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Monday, 18 July 2011 10:52 |
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Medard Mulangala, head of the Union for a Republican Majority (URM) party and former minister for energy and mining in the DRC, published an article on conflict minerals in the Guardian edition of the 30th of June.
Mr Mulangala calls attention to the illicit trade of DRC’s minerals, which fuels armed conflicts and leads to human rights abuses. The MP gives the example of the Anvil Mining Corporation’s case, in which the Canada-based company allegedly provided support to the Congolese army to carry out a violent attack on the people of Kilwa, where the company was working.
Medard Mulangala explains that his purpose is to make all citizens realise the power they have through holding shares in a mining or mobile phone company, engaging in social media campaigning, or simply buying a mobile phone.
The article states that being aware of the intricacies of a supply chain that links our mobile phones to human rights abuses and acting upon it has the potential to make a significant change.
Medard Mulangala's article can be found here. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 18 July 2011 11:52 |
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Coalition of 47 NGOs call for the UN to address LRA and potential electoral violence |
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Written by Sophia Pickles
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Sunday, 17 July 2011 16:44 |
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The international and Congolese organisations stressed that the UN Security Council should ensure MONUSCO (the UN Stabilisation Mission in DRC) has appropriate resources to protect civilians from attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and to avert election-related violence.
Despite the LRA’s threat to civilians, fewer than 5 percent of MONUSCO’s peacekeepers are deployed in LRA-affected areas and none of them are currently in Bas Uele district, where violent LRA attacks have recently occurred.
In relation to the upcoming elections, the organisations urged the UN mission to promptly establish a dedicated monitoring unit to document election-related violence, including attacks and threats to political candidates and their supporters, journalists, and human rights defenders.
The press release and the list of the signatories can be found here. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 17 July 2011 16:49 |
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APPG Delegation Visit DRC Report
Oral Parliamentary Questions and Debates July 2011
The OECD Guidelines and the DRC cases
JOHANNESBURG 03 February 2012 (IRIN) - The belief that the end is nigh for Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) - a small but ruthless transnational armed group operating in four African states - underestimates its resilience and overestimates the unity and capability of the forces ranged against it, say analysts. 
NAIROBI/KINSHASA 02 February 2012 (IRIN) - The lives of thousands of HIV-positive people in the Democratic Republic of Congo are at risk as the country faces declining donor funding and a severe shortage of HIV treatment, according to Médecins Sans Frontières. 
BUJUMBURA 27 January 2012 (IRIN) - There are fears of a looming food shortage in Burundi after heavy rains damaged two successive harvests, say officials. 
NAIROBI 28 December 2011 (IRIN) - Launched in 2004, IRIN’s film unit has won numerous awards for its productions, several of which have been aired by prominent international broadcasters. Here is a list of the unit’s most-watched films in 2011. 
KAMPALA 02 December 2011 (IRIN) - Brandishing a plea for developed countries to make good their promises to reduce carbon emissions, 300 farmers, youths and activists took the scenic route to the COP17 conference in Durban, travelling more than 7,000km from Burundi in 17 days, through 10 eastern and southern African countries, aboard a convoy of buses draped in various national flags. 
POINTE NOIRE 25 January 2012 (IRIN) - Forced child labour remains rampant in Central Africa, where poverty fuels the trafficking of children from poorer countries to oil-rich states such as Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo, according to experts. 
LONDON 26 January 2012 (IRIN) - Breast cancer continues to be misunderstood, under-diagnosed and fatal, particularly in developing countries, say researchers, despite more than one million official annual diagnoses and almost half a million recorded deaths annually. 
KIGALI 09 January 2012 (IRIN) - This will be a busy year for Rwanda's health centres as the country attempts to reach its goal of medically circumcising 50 percent of men by June 2013 as part of HIV prevention efforts. 
JUBA/KAMPALA 30 January 2012 (IRIN) - Petty traders from Uganda, South Sudan's largest trading partner, crowd into Konyo Konyo market in Juba selling used clothes, vegetables and household wares. Lacking economic prospects at home, they come in the hope of finding better opportunities in Juba's booming post-war economy. 
BUNDIMASOLI 26 January 2012 (IRIN) - The marginalized western Ugandan Basua community is fighting extinction; forcibly removed from their forest home two decades ago, they have struggled to cope with modern life and have been ravaged by health crises, including HIV. 
ISIOLO, 3 February 2012 (IRIN) - Politically motivated violence in the northern Kenyan town of Moyale, which has left dozens dead and tens of thousands displaced in recent weeks, shows little sign of abating and there are fears that the clashes could continue until elections are held for new local government positions. 
LAGOS, 3 February 2012 (IRIN) - A month after an angry public launched protests across Nigeria over skyrocketing fuel prices due to the removal of a government subsidy, a measure of calm has returned and people seem to have settled into accepting a compromise. 
HARARE, 3 February 2012 (IRIN) - With global funding for HIV/AIDS on the decline, Zimbabwe's innovative AIDS levy - a 3 percent tax on income - has become a promising source of funding for the country, with a dramatic increase in revenue collected in the past two years. 
