Training Human Rights Defenders In The Democratic Republic Of Congo
Information about human rights abuse is the key asset of human rights groups. The loss of this information is a problem with far-reaching implications.
Information about human rights abuse is the key asset of human rights groups. The loss of this information is a problem with far-reaching implications.
Navi Pillay | Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact
Turning a blind eye to egregious human rights abuses is a recipe for disaster. The UN Security Council, when discussing the protection of civilians in armed conflict, must hold perpetrators of these abuses accountable.
Zainab Salbi | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
Violence against women is a global epidemic affecting millions of women daily that presents debilitating obstacles to the development of women, their families and communities, and even their national economies.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
Congolese president Joseph Kabila paved the way for a troupe of Spanish Clowns, while thugs and militia rule the Kivus and truth-seeking journalist are threatened.
Charles London | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
It's an exciting idea for the State Department: give people the tools and they, like the protesters in Iran, will solve our foreign policy dilemmas. But will it work?
The Huffington Post | Susan Ryan | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
Murders, rapes and major internal displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been linked to a number of multinational companies in a report...
Lizzie Parsons | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Congo region have been forced to flee from their homes - some many times - because men with guns have given them no choice. Others have been massacred, raped or tortured.
Olivier Kamanda | Posted 01.05.2009 | World
Headlines from Africa in 2008 recounted brutal riots in Kenya, a war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and election-driven chaos in Zimbabwe. But there was also good news.
Treehugger | Matthew McDermott | Posted 12.25.2008 | Green
I don't know if you saw the post from a couple weeks ago about when rangers at Congo's Virunga National Park, home to about 200 endangered mountain g...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 12.19.2008 | Green
The escalating violence in Congo had chased wildlife rangers deep into the wilderness weeks ago, and had long threatened to encroach upon the gorillas...
Bukeni Waruzi | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
The people in eastern Congo are tired; we have been running for more than a decade now. We need to sit down, live in peace and raise our children.
BBC NEWS | Posted 12.01.2008 | Green
Fears are growing for the welfare of 39 wildlife rangers who were reportedly forced to flee into dense forest after their headquarters in eastern DR C...
Jim Fruchterman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living