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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]
21 Feb 2024, 5:52 am
For instance, in lawsuits from business, compensation for “lost profits” is often awarded.[3] However, practice of the ICJ in the “DR Congo v. [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]
15 Feb 2024, 7:30 am
An Italian judge ruled on Tuesday that two UN agency employees cannot be tried over the deaths of an Italian ambassador, his bodyguard and a driver in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to Rome daily newspaper Fatto Quotidiano. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 9:00 am
The Joint Framework of Peace Initiatives in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was adopted upon the summit. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 6:08 am
” In December, Netanyahu’s two senior far-right coalition partners called for the “voluntary emigration” of Gaza’s Palestinians to the Democratic Republic of Congo and other countries — a plan for which Netanyahu subsequently expressed support. [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]
