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- Damilola Banjo
- • June 3, 2022
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This week, our focus is on the continuing efforts of the United Nations to reduce civilian casualties in different pockets of unrest across the globe. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The …
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- Clair MacDougall
- • September 9, 2020
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Dr. Denis Mukwege sat behind a desk in a sharp suit with a red tie and his eyes framed by thick black glasses, as his image was live-streamed from eastern Congo during a human-rights meeting of the European Parliament in …
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Secretary-General
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- Opinion by Christina Juan
- • September 11, 2013
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Democratic Republic of the Congo is riddled with negative media attention. In the midst of virtually persistent conflict in eastern Congo since 1993, what goes on far away in Kinshasa, the capital of this massive country? …
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Tala Dowlatshahi
- • May 15, 2013
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The cycle of sexual violence that has been churning throughout the eastern half of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has refused to stop, despite all the steps the United Nations has taken over decades to end the epidemic. Just …
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Secretary-General, Security Council, Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 22, 2013
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Bosco Ntaganda, whom the United States calls “one of the most notorious and brutal rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” has arrived at the International Criminal Court in The Hague after being transported by court officials from Rwanda. …
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
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- Roger Nokes
- • November 26, 2011
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One of Africa’s largest, poorest and most violent countries will have its second election – presidential and parliamentary – on Nov. 28, after overcoming a dictatorship, a coup and two brutal civil wars. The Democratic Republic of Congo, independent since …
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights
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