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Coalition to UN Security Council: Address UN Congo Mapping Report and Enforce Justice for Victims
Press ReleaseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Friends of the CongoPhone: +1-202-584-6512Email: rwandaelections@gmail.comWednesday, December 15, 2010 – This month the US and the UN Security Council must choose: will they hold accountable major perpetrators of continued atrocities in the Congo or collaborate with them to put the blame on a few guilty but minor scapegoats and some innocent…
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U.S New Framework for Global Development Policy
The Obama Administration has recently come up with its framework for a new global de-velopment policy strategy, with particular policy papers on Agriculture, Health and Climate Change. The Catholic Task Force for Africa reflected on these papers and the fol-lowing comments reflect our thanks, concerns and suggestions. This new effort by the administration offers the…
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Seeking Justice for the Victims: UN Mapping Exercise Report of October 1, 2010 on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, NGO letter to Congressman David Wu
We the undersigned come to you with concerns over the stability, security, justice and peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes region in general. We want to call your attention to the recent UN mapping exercise report. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Mapping Report, released on…
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Coalition to UN Security Council: Address UN Congo Mapping Report and enforce justice for victims
Coalition to UN Security Council: Address UN Congo Mapping Report and enforce justice for victims
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Multi-national corporations’ Land Grabbing in Africa
In the recent economic downturn, some of the world’s largest foreign corporations have found a new sector to invest in: African farmland. The countries that are most vulnerable to the persistent trend of land grabbing are those with weak governments that arefailing to defend justice and national sovereignty. Some governments and communities have leased the…
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Rwandan Army Allies’ Crimes in Congo: Who is Not Named in the UN Report?
On October 1, 2010, the UN finally released its report (read it here) about the war crimes, crimes against humanity, major violations of international laws and possibly a genocide committed by Rwandan troops (APR) and its allies, the Rwandan sponsored Congolese rebel group Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (AFDL ). The…
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Tell your Representative/Senators to Co-sponsor the Intentional Violence Against Women Act Now
At the recent Mission Congress 2010 held in Albuquerque, New Mexico from October 28th to 31st, the United States Catholic Mission Association(USCMA) met for their member meeting. As a body they voted in favor of joining the Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) in supporting the International Violence Against Women Act which is before both…
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Four Women and a Girl taken Hostage in Mwenga Territory
From October 14-17, 2010, 250 women from 48 countries and more than 1000 delegates from across the Democratic Republic of the Congo joined thousands Congolese women in the city of Bukavu in South Kivu province for the third international World March of Women WMW) . Launched for the first time in October 2000, the World…
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Rwandan Army Allies’ Crimes in Congo: Who is Not Named in the UN Report?
(First published in AFJN’s September-October Newsletter) By Bahati Jacques, Policy Analyst On October 1, 2010, the UN finally released its report (read it here) about the war crimes, crimes against humanity, major violations of international laws and possibly a genocide committed by Rwandan troops (APR) and its allies, the Rwandan sponsored Congolese rebel group Alliance…
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Democratic Republic of Congo: A Season of Hope
Wrinkled and hard, the woman looked 70; I did not know her age, only that she was a native of Bunia, the beleaguered city in the eastern Congo terrorized by rebels and its own nation’s army in recent years. I met her in Mbandaka, the provincial capital of Equateur Province a thousand miles from her…
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Using Art as a Tool to End the Rape Pandemic in the Congo
By Evan Fowler, American University, AFJN InternProtecting women is a priority in the Congolese environment of insecurity where women are raped not only by those with guns, but unarmed civilians. Caritas Goma, a charitable ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Goma, in collaboration with other nonprofit organizations, is using art as a tool to fight against…
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D.R. Congo: Women’s Listening Ministry
Rev. Madeline Bomboko was Director of the Disciples’ (Communaute des Disciples du Christ au Congo) Losanganya Guest House in Mbandaka when she began to receive some unexpected guests. It all began one day in 2003 on a street in downtown Mbandaka. A disheveled, emaciated woman with fine features intrigued Madeline. What was the cause of…
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300 raped in Congo, promise to protect them broken again
Between July 30 and August 2nd, armed militants identified as Mai Mai Cheka Cheka and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda ( FDLR) occupied the town of Luvungi in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and raped many women, said Mr Khare, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping. A “preliminary report describes how the team confirmed…
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Coalition says UN report is last straw, Activists Vow to Keep Pressure on Obama to Drop Kagame
For Immediate Release Contact: Kitty Kurth, Phone: 312/617/7288 WASHINGTON DC; THURSDAY, September 30, 2010: A spreading coalition of American based grassroots and human rights organizations who focus on the Great Lakes Region of Africa has congratulated the UN on its recently leaked bombshell study of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The coalition is frequently…
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The UN Reports: Major Atrocities in Congo 1993-2003
Today is a day unlike others for the Congolese victims of the 1996 invasion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. It is also a new day for all citizens of neighboring nations, particularly the Rwandan citizens of Hutu ethnic background who, at the time, were refugees in eastern Congo…
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Voice of America: Solutions to the DRC Crisis
Voice of America: In Focus Jacques Bahati, AFJN’s policy Analyst take on Solutions to the D.R.Congo Crisis.
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On the Occasion of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Make a Pledge to Save our Environment Today
The Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) has partnered with the Catholic Coalition for Climate Change for the past two years. As part of that partnership, we would like to alert all our members to the St. Francis Pledge. In his ministry, among other things, St. Francis committed his life to nature. Today more than…
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Final Declaration Regional Conference of Religious Leaders on the Impackt of the LRA Yambio, 8-10th of September 2010
Statement in French here We, the religious leaders from regions affected by the LRA crisis in Uganda, in Sudan, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in Central African Republic (CAR), reunited in Yambio from 8th-10th of September 2010, under the initiative of the Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio in collaboration with the Inter Church Committee,…
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The State of UN Millennium Development Goals and Implications for Africa
By Julie Albert, Intern Delegates from the 140 member states of the UN convened at a summit in New York City from September 20 to 22 to discuss the progression of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) just 5 years prior their conclusion. These goals, which were established in 1990 to stretch until 2015, include but…
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Now You know: Paul Kagame could be charged with genocide
The evidence of a criminal case against President Paul Kagame and associates is overwhelming. A UN report that leaked to the French newspaper Le Monde on August 26 and scheduled to be officially released on October 1st confirms evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly a genocide committed in the Democratic Republic of…
