Some 200 Women Gang-Raped Over 4 Days Near Congo U.N. Base
Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-raped nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers' base in an eastern Congo mining district, an American aid worker and a Congolese doctor said Monday.
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Sign Petition Letter From Congolese to Sec. Of State Hillary Clinton
TAKE ACTION! Congolese elected officials from the province of South Kivu sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to the Congo in August 2009. The letter recommended the optimum way for the United States and the international community to be engaged in the Congo. It calls for the United States to change the manner in which it has operated in Congo and the Great Lakes Region. In light of
the recent gang rape of nearly 200 Congolese women, this letter from the Congolese people is even more urgent.
Let Secretary of State Clinton, President Obama and the US Congress know that you want action now in line with what Congolese have been calling for over a decade.
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Title: A SEASON IN THE CONGO: A Community Prequel
Time: 7pm--9pm Reception: 6:30PM
Location: Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY 10037-1801
(212) 491-2200
Contact: Jackie Jeffries/Rico Speight 212 923-5546
Screening: New Generation, Short documentary on views of Congolese youth on Congolese leadership
Scene from A Season In the Congo. (Live performance)
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BLOOD MINERALS The Criminalization of the Mining Industry in Eastern DRC

The error consists in regarding competition around minerals as the main reason for conflicts in Eastern Congo and the establishment of government authority as the ma...in mechanism for ending such competition and thereby the conflicts themselves.
Reforms centered around strengthening the rôle of the state in Eastern Congo rather than the people will, we contend, exacerbate conflict instead of ending it, even if they succeed in curbing the excesses deriving from mineral trade.
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