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Month: April 2011

Attorney Sanctioned Despite Medical Symptoms From Rwanda Detention: Consistent with ICTR Cover-up of RPF Crimes

April 30, 2011

International Humanitarian Law Institute News Advisory Contact: Dr. Christine Schoettler, PhD. (fr) cschoettler@comcast.net Andrea Palumbo, JD. (eng) andrea.m.palumbo@gmail.com St. Paul, MN – April 27 —   A 4-hour ICTR Appeal Chamber…

UN Mapping Report: 34 Congolese Organizations call for an independent and credible Special Court

April 19, 2011

Driven by the publication of the UN Mapping Report of October 2010, Congolese, international officials and civil society representatives met in Goma from April 6-8th, 2011 “on the establishment of a specialized…

California State on its way to enforce federal regulations on conflict minerals from DRC

April 13, 2011

On Tuesday  April 12th,  California Senate’s Governmental Organization Committee furthered the bill SB 861 which aims to enhance the State of California’s compliance with section 1502 on conflict minerals of U.S federal law, N0…

American and European NGOs call for high level diplomatic appointments in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

April 12, 2011

Humanitarian and advocacy groups in the US and Europe are pressing their respective governments to appoint special envoys to Africa’s Great Lakes region.  On the US side, this appointment is long…

Global Day Against Military Spending

April 8, 2011

Africa Advocates can get behind this event, come and show your support! From their website: “We are organizing a Global Day of Action on Military Spending on April 12, 2011to coincide with…

AFJN Policy Analyst Jacques Bahati quoted in The Final Call on Justice for Victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

April 3, 2011

The Final Call published an article by Saeed Shabaz titled “Advocates: Six million Congolese war victims deserve justice”.