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6 Mar 2024, 6:33 am
Dodd-Frank Act (which required companies to disclose the use of key minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and the 2003 Kimberley Process (a voluntary treaty requiring participating States to check that any diamonds they import or export carry a certificate stating that revenue from these diamonds was not used to fund violent conflict against legitimate governments) were premised on disrupting the flow of resources to rebel groups that fight each other or the… [read post]
19 Feb 2024, 7:00 am
Cobalt for cobalt-lithium batteries comes mostly from the Democratic Republic of Congo, involves extensive child and near-slave labor and, like most other metals and minerals for “renewable” technologies, requires fossil fuels and toxic chemicals, and is controlled by Communist China. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 6:20 am
Conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo Threatens Civilians The U.N. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 4:41 am
South Africa has ordered the deployment of 2,900 soldiers to help fight against armed rebel groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 9:56 am
The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) misappropriated $400 million in state funds ahead of December elections, per an EU report. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 10:01 pm
“And I’m still working with a longtime colleague, Denis Mukwege, who is an OB-GYN and Nobel Peace Prize laureate in the Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
5 Jan 2024, 5:55 am
Others, particularly in the Global South, criticize double standards in international activism (for example, the West’s fulsome response to atrocities in Ukraine, but relative silence when addressing violence in Sudan, Yemen, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo). [read post]
2 Dec 2023, 7:51 am
The European Union (EU) claimed on Wednesday that they were “forced to cancel” the electoral observation mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after planning to deploy long-term observers across the DRC. [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 6:53 am
When the U.N. has done little or nothing to stop atrocity crimes in Myanmar, Yemen, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, it means that not only the Security Council has failed, but also the system as a whole – including the 193 member States that make up the U.N. [read post]
2 Nov 2023, 7:05 am
(Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a symposium on “The Future of Atrocity Prevention,” organized in collaboration with the Programme on International Peace and Security at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. [read post]
2 Oct 2023, 6:05 am
Despite its importance, the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) faces an uphill battle to renew its mandate. [read post]
8 Sep 2023, 5:55 am
In recent years, Human Rights Council-mandated investigations, with the support of their gender experts, have documented gender-based rights violations in many of the country situations under investigation by the ICC OTP, including the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Myanmar, Ukraine, Venezuela and Israel and Palestine. [read post]
21 Aug 2023, 6:05 am
For instance, Luis Moreno Ocampo, the former ICC Prosecutor, has critiqued the idea of a Ukraine-specific tribunal, which “promotes nothing short of selective justice,” while Christine van den Wyngaert, a former ICC judge, questions “whether the remedy [of a special tribunal] is worse than the disease [of aggression]” writing: Unlike the [ICTY], which had the support of the entire international community when it was set up, it is to be expected that support for the Putin… [read post]
20 Aug 2023, 8:24 pm
For example, in jurisdictions like Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda the ICC Outreach Unit has conducted positive activities including holding information sessions about the Court’s mandate and jurisdiction and kept impacted communities and victims informed about the progress of specific cases under the ICC’s consideration through radio and television programs in local languages.However, in other in other jurisdictions like Bangladesh/Myanmar, Burundi, the Central… [read post]
7 Aug 2023, 6:46 am
They afflict every region of the world — think of Syria, North Korea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ukraine, Myanmar and Venezuela — and can be committed by states and private organizations, during wartime and during peace. [read post]
20 Jul 2023, 5:55 am
Only by tying U.S. policies to those atrocity determinations will perpetrators in Ethiopia, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, and Ukraine get the loud, clear message that the most powerful nation in the world is not only watching, but also acting. [read post]
5 Jul 2023, 5:57 am
For example, in jurisdictions like Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda the ICC Outreach Unit has conducted positive activities including holding information sessions about the Court’s mandate and jurisdiction and kept impacted communities and victims informed about the progress of specific cases under the ICC’s consideration through radio and television programs in local languages.However, in other in other jurisdictions like Bangladesh/Myanmar, Burundi, the Central… [read post]
5 Jul 2023, 5:57 am
For example, in jurisdictions like Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Sudan, and Uganda the ICC Outreach Unit has conducted positive activities including holding information sessions about the Court’s mandate and jurisdiction and kept impacted communities and victims informed about the progress of specific cases under the ICC’s consideration through radio and television programs in local languages.However, in other in other jurisdictions like Bangladesh/Myanmar, Burundi, the Central… [read post]
Will the World Respond to Potential Rwandan Aggression Against the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
21 Jun 2023, 6:05 am
Over the past year and a half, Rwandan troops have conducted military operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and engaged in direct combat with the Congolese military and armed groups. [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 2:54 am
The peace mission included officials from Senegal, Egypt, Zambia, the Comoros, Egypt, Uganda, and the Republic of Congo. [read post]
