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- Ryan Villarreal
- • April 6, 2014
Last year marked major progress toward finding a peaceful resolution for the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s achingly long conflict, rooted in decades of civil war, regional incursions, ethnic tensions and resource pilfering. Throughout the many years, women have…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 13, 2014
The first step to possibly try Bosco Ntaganda, a Congolese warlord born in Rwanda, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, began recently at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Ntaganda, who turned himself in to the court…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice, Women
- Christina Juan
- • September 11, 2013
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…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Elisabeth Braw
- • June 10, 2013
LONDON — When Angelina Jolie and William Hague traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in March, the Hollywood star and the British foreign minister naturally attracted attention. But what they came for — to announce a plan…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Women
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • April 11, 2013
For the first time, the United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution allowing UN troops to go on the offensive in a mission against armed rebels. The combat intervention brigade will operate as part of the UN…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 3, 2013
Two innovative women from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where violence against women and girls has been harsh and unrelenting through years of lawlessness and civil conflict, came to New York in early March with a message…
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • March 22, 2013
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…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
- Lorraine Boissoneault
- • February 26, 2013
Gold is now one of the most problematic conflict minerals in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and United Nations Security Council sanctions on the illegal mining of natural resources, including gold, have done little to prevent smugglers from…
- Categories: Africa, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 26, 2012
Less than two decades ago, this is what happened to a huge African country once known as Zaire: Rebels backed by Rwanda’s recently installed, ethnic Tutsi-led government moved out of their strongholds in the eastern flank of the country…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 30, 2012
Justine Masika Bihamba’s work is centered in North Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where for about 12 years she has been fighting poverty and sexual violence, promoting peace and human rights and supporting war victims…
- Categories: Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 10, 2012
Thomas Lubanga, the 52-year-old Congolese militant convicted by the International Criminal Court in March for the war crimes of conscripting and enlisting child soldiers under age 15 and using them in hostilities, was sentenced today to 14…
- Categories: Africa, Child Soldiers, ICC
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