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Natasha Makengo: Human Rights to Education

Hi everyone, thanks for coming today and for giving me an opportunity to speak today. As you may know about a month ago, we, the concerned friends and children of the Democratic Republic of Congo lost a prominent human rights leader, Floribert Chebeya.

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52 Rabbis Call for Actions to End the Killing in the Congo

by Vava Tampa & Rabbi David Mitchell
Following the commemoration of Yom HaShoah, the Jewish annual commemoration of the Holocaust, 52 Rabbis in the UK have issued a public statement urging Prime Minister Brown and the two leaders of opposition Nick Clegg and the David Cameron to pledge an unwavering resolve to make saving the Congo an absolute priority for the next Parliament.

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A reflection: Kagame on his way to The Hague?

“No matter how strong the wind of evil may blow, the flame of truth cannot be extinguished," –His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso
 
More than a decade after human rights groups alleged that Rwandan troops and its off-springs, proxy militia, were engaged in routine and systematic mass killings of targeted groups of men, women and children in the Congo, a 545-page leaked UN report, due to be published officially in the coming days, has set the match to the dry timber that is Paul Kagame who was the commander-in-chief of the Rwandan troops, and arguably the primary sponsor of militia groups, accused of committing catalogues of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the course of Rwanda’s brutal attempt to flush out ‘interwhame’ out of Congo.

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90,000 have fled clashes as security worsens

By Katrina Manson

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Almost 90,000 people have fled fighting in eastern Congo in the past month, aid agencies said, underscoring a worsening security situation despite the official end of Congo's 1998-2003 war. Conflicts between rebel groups, former militias and army troops simmer in Democratic Republic of Congo, and more than 1.9 million people are still displaced, up from 1.6 million in 2009.

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Global Witness takes UK government to court over Congo conflict minerals

 

Global Witness - July 26, 2010

The British government is acting unlawfully in refusing to put forward eligible UK companies and individuals trading in Congolese 'conflict minerals' for targeted UN sanctions, said campaign group Global Witness today in an application to the High Court for a judicial review. 
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