Conflict Minerals

Congo : Les voitures électriques sont-elles construites par le travail des enfants ?

Alors que le Mondial de l’Automobile a ouvert ses portes à Paris ce week-end, Amnesty International (France) en a profité pour revenir sur le rapport publié en début d’année : ‘Voilà pourquoi on meurt‘ et qui soulève un flou persistant sur le recours au...

Denis Mukwege : ‘Le viol est un acte terroriste’

Suite à la sortie du film en France ‘L’homme qui répare les femmes‘ dont nous vous parlions le mois dernier, le Docteur Denis Mukwege est très présent dans les médias pour assurer la promotion du film. Il était hier sur le plateau de l’émission Le Grand Journal...

Le film ‘L’homme qui répare les femmes – la colère d’Hippocrate’ sort en France

Sorti l’année dernière aux Pays-Bas, le film de Thierry Michel et Colette Braeckman ‘L’homme qui répare les femmes – la colère d’Hippocrate‘ qui nous présente l’incroyable travail du Docteur Denis Mukwege à l’hopital de Panzi au Congo,...

Robert Mugabe: the missing diamond revenues and the elections

In our Top Stories / Must read post published last Sunday, we mentioned the fact that a Kimberley Process loophole was raising concern. And Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe may be pretty much concerned about it. In an article published on NorthJersey.com, Zimbabwe Parliament committee...

Illegal logging in Congo, Kimberley Process, IMF, Child and Forced Marriage

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: Illegal logging 'ravaging DR Congo forests', CPJ rejects Egyptian ruling against civil society, Kimberley Process Loophole Raises Concern, IMF admits: we failed to realise the damage austerity would do to Greece, Child and...

Trading Conflict for Coffee in DRC, Darfur is -not- over, Oslo Freedom Forum

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Trading Conflict for Coffee in DRC; Current media focus on conflicts such as Syria means people can be forgiven for assuming "Darfur is over". It's not, says Olivia Warham, Director of Waging Peace; 2013...

The Dark Side of Darfur’s Gold Rush

Akshaya Kumar, Sudan and South Sudan Policy Analyst for the Enough Project, writes about Darfur’s gold mines as exposed in a new report. Darfur is suffering its worst humanitarian crisis in years. Since the beginning of 2013, over 200,000 people have been displaced by what the...

Congo’s Conflict Gold Trade: U.S. Should Sanction Smugglers

In an article posted by Sasha Lezhnev, the Senior Policy Analyst at Enough Project explains why it is the time for the Obama administration to have a major impact and sanction smugglers: This morning the Wall Street Journal published an exposé on the conflict gold trade from eastern...

Congo: Obama, Conflict Gold 101, a ‘ringleader’ arrested

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Congo. - Your Calls for Congo Peace Reached The White House - Conflict Gold 101 - How Obama can end Congo conflict - South Africa police: Congo rebel 'ringleader' arrested

Raise Hope for Congo, a campaign of The Enough Project

Raise Hope for Congo, a campaign of The Enough Project, aims to build a permanent and diverse constituency of activists who will advocate for the human rights of all Congolese citizens and work towards ending the ongoing conflict in eastern Congo. Raise Hope for Congo and the Enough...