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28 Apr 2024, 8:05 am
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ratified Friday the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 8:00 am
"Reports:Africa Migration Report, 2nd ed. - Connecting the threads: Linking policy, practice and the welfare of the African migrant (African Union & IOM, March 2024) [access]From a Humanitarian to Development Approach: Uganda’s Groundbreaking Journey in the Sustainable Provision of Water to Refugees and Host Communities (World Bank, April 2024) [text]Journal articles:"Improving Psychosocial Wellbeing and Parenting Practices Among Refugees in Uganda: Results of the Journey of Life… [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 12:27 pm
Another example we’ve seen recently is around what’s currently happening in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 8:02 pm
While demonstrators appear to be united in their objection to the ongoing war in Gaza, organizers say Tesla is also being targeted because they use minerals mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and that the company is complicit in genocide happening in that country. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 5:11 am
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29 Mar 2024, 6:05 am
Security Council Briefed on Humanitarian Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo On Thursday, Bintou Keita, head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) addressed the U.N. [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 6:46 pm
Democratic Republic of Congo journalist Stanis Bujakera was freed from prison Tuesday after serving a six-month jail sentence for forgery and spreading false rumors for an article about a government intelligence agency’s involvement in the death of political opposition candidate Cherubin Okende. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 8:14 am
“The government’s decision to reinstate executions is a gross injustice for people sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” said Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa. [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 12:41 pm
The plaintiffs were former cobalt miners injured in mining accidents in the Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
9 Mar 2024, 10:29 am
A prosecutor in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) requested on Friday a 20-year sentence in prison for Stanis Bujakera, a journalist on trial for an article implicating military intelligence in the death of an opposition politician, Chérubin Okende. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 12:30 pm
Nearly two-thirds of the world's cobalt (an essential metal for the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power modern electronics) comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, some by forced labor, including that of children. [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 12:52 pm
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed a child labor case Tuesday against technology companies and refused to hold them accountable for their alleged support of the use of children in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 11:27 am
Enlarge / Workers at a cobalt mine in the Mwenga territory of South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on July 14, 2023. [read post]
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]
5 Mar 2024, 7:47 pm
Nearly two-thirds of the world's cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo ("DRC"), where some of the metal can be traced to informal mining by Congolese nationals digging with primitive tools in unsafe conditions. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 8:42 am
The UN transferred control of its first base of operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday to the Congolese government. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 6:45 am
The LRA has diminished in size in recent years and now operates in the border region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 4:59 am
Circuit dismissed a U.S. citizen’s torture claim against officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo, rejecting an argument that the vitality of the TVPA as a statutory scheme should factor into the court’s personal jurisdiction analysis. [read post]
25 Feb 2024, 7:48 am
International concerns regarding press freedom and journalist safety in the Democratic Republic of Congo have heightened in recent years. [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 1:16 pm
The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on six individuals affiliated with various armed factions in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday. [read post]
