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 111-203 also known as the...
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 overdue. The necessity for a special envoy was recognized by US...
California State Senator Ellen Corbett has introduced SB 861, a bill that (if passed) would prohibit the state of California from contracting with companies who do not follow the federal rules of transparency that prohibit the trading of conflict minerals from the...
Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Congolese war lord Thomas Lubanga of recruiting children and sending them into battle. The conviction is good news for his victims, but it does not match the scope of his crimes. This is just a drop in the...
From the Jan-March 2011 Edition of Around Africa, by Bahati Jacques, AFJN Senior Policy AnalystSince President Barack Obama signed into law the Conflict Mineral Act on July 21, 2010 (section 1502, of US public law N0 111-203), non-profit organizations and electronics...
Yesterday, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights held a hearing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) thanks the subcommittee for its interest in DRC issues. AFJN expressed...
Yesterday, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights held a hearing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) thanks the subcommittee for its interest in DRC issues. AFJN expressed...
On March 2, 2011, on Capitol Hill, in the House of the Representatives, the African Great Lakes Advocacy Coalition (Africa Faith and Justice Network,Friends of the Congo, Foreign Policy in Focus, African Great Lakes Action Network, Foundation for Freedom and...
In an interview with Ann Garrison of KPFA radio on the upcoming congressional briefing on March 2, AFJN Policy Analyst, Bahati Jacques said: “Our goal is to rally U.S. support for justice for the crimes committed by the Rwandan, Ugandan, and Burundian armies and...
