Understanding Conflict Minerals Provisions in Eastern Congo

Credits: TOMS Shoes Fashion Trends newsletter E-mail * do not change Contact Email Contact Email2 Contact Url Subscribe to Blog Remember my Info TOMS is introducing their first collaboration with Ben Affleck's Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI), a ...

A UN intervention brigade will soon be deployed to the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a bid to neutralize militia groups operating there. The over-3,000-strong military force will work alongside the UN Stabilization Mission ...

Ben Affleck, along with many other celebrities have chosen to live off $1.50 per day in support of "Live below the Line" and the Eastern Congo. Both organizations support the awareness of global poverty and challenge people for one week to live the ...

GOMA, Congo -- Thousands of people have fled the town of Pinga in eastern Congo following renewed fighting between local armed groups, and nine members of Doctors Without Borders' Congolese staff have gone missing, the aid group said Friday. Jan ...

The idea that peacekeepers should not initiate military action has prevailed ... until now. Jeni Whalan says the new "intervention brigade" in the Congo has stretched the institution of peacekeeping to breaking point. There's a fine, but critical, ...

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- According to estimates by the NGO community, nearly 5.5 million people have died from war-related causes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between 1998 and 2007. Last year alone, fighting displaced more than 650,000 ...

Last week, with scarcely a ripple in the public consciousness, a new initiative was quietly launched that could profoundly alter the world's international security landscape for decades ahead. Before recessing for the Christian holy days, the United ...

KAMPALA, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Peace talks aimed at ending fighting in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are still on course despite infighting within the M23 rebel group, the facilitator of the talks said here on Monday.

Geneva/Kinshasa/Goma (ICRC) "The violence and suffering inflicted on people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have reached a level rarely seen in two decades," declared Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red ...