UN Must Move from Sound Bites to Action
By Steve Crawshaw
Published in The International Herald Tribune
During his first few weeks as UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon seems to have had a hard time treading the line between his diplomat's desire to be Mr. Nice, and the requirements of a job in which speaking truth to power is essential.
January 24, 2007 Commentary
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Congo-Brazzaville: Authorities Try to Silence Anticorruption Activists
Christian Mounzéo, a leading anticorruption campaigner in oil-rich Congo-Brazzaville, was arbitrarily arrested and detained by authorities upon his return to the country allegedly because of his criticism of the government’s misuse of oil revenues, Human Rights Watch said today.
November 15, 2006 Press Release
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Burundi/Congo: HRW Report Praised by Congo Minister for Aiding Peace
In rare praise from government officials in Africa, the human rights minister from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) commended Human Rights Watch's September report on the August 2004 slaughter of more than 150 civilians (including many Congolese) at Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
January 15, 2005 Advocacy Impact
Britain Must Confront Shameful Trade that Ruins Congolese Lives
By Anneke Van Woudenberg, Senior Researcher on the Democratic Republic of Congo for Human Rights Watch
Published in The Independent - UK
A few weeks ago, in a quiet corner of a hotel in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, a militia leader told me that 6,000 of his armed men had recently taken control of a gold mine in the north. He reckoned that he could sell 5kg of gold from his new mine for $50,000 (£30,000). He said it would be traded for guns. According to countless reports, those guns, in turn, are used to massacre civilians. Human Rights Watch has documented many of these attacks where men, women and children are brutally killed, raped or mutilated.
October 31, 2003 Commentary
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Bush Should Do the Right Thing in Africa
By Janet Fleischman, Human Rights Watch's Washington Director for Africa
Published in allAfrica.com
Many Americans seem to accept the notion that we live in a unipolar world, and that only the United States has the wherewithal to solve complex global problems. But on the continent of Africa, which President Bush is crisscrossing for the first time this week, the U.S. isn't taking the lead. On his trip, President Bush has a chance to decide if the U.S. will play more than a supporting role.
July 9, 2003 Commentary
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Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Eastern Congo
Forces on all sides in the Congo conflict have committed war crimes against women and girls. HRW's report, "The War Within The War: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Eastern Congo," documents the frequent and sometimes systematic use of rape and other forms of sexual violence in the Rwandan-occupied areas of eastern Congo.
August 1, 2002 Advocacy Impact
Republic of Congo: Child Soldier Global Report 2001
From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Thousands of children were systematically recruited into government and opposition forces during the civil war in the Congo.
Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programmes have been established since a ceasefire agreement took effect in
January 2000. However the programmes did not proceed as quickly as hoped, and so far there have been no reports regarding
the demobilisation of children.
June 12, 2001 Multi Country Report
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