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World News tagged with Congo

Clinton Presents Plan to Fight Sexual Violence in Congo
World  (tags: USA, Hillary Clinton, Congo, eastern congo, Congolese Women, gang-rape, brutality, rape, rape epidemic )

ON VACATI
- 106 days ago - nytimes.com
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came face2face with the consequences of the brutality in eastern Congo on Tues afternoon when she met a Congolese woman who had been gang-raped while she was 8 mos pregnant...the fetus died.
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Sign Petition: 61 Years of UN Peacekeeping - Send a Letter Thanking Peacekeepers for Their Service.
World  (tags: world, humanitarian, relief, war, violence, UN, peacekeepers, middle-east, africa, darfur, zimbabwe, congo, sri lanka, human, rights, starvation, food, medicine, conflict, politics, terrorism, freedoms, death, humanrights )

Tom
- 180 days ago - humanitarianrelief.change.org
Take a minute to watch the message from George Clooney below. Then sign this letter and join us in thanking the 100,000 brave men and women from 118 countries serving as UN peacekeepers in 16 of the most volatile countries in the world.
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EU Fails to Reistate UN Rights Expert on Congo
World  (tags: world, violence, war, Congo, genocide, starvation, rape, children, women, abuse, Africa, Islam, Muslim, UN, EU, Geneva, Rwanda, politics, humanrights, crime, death )

Tom
- 242 days ago - reuters.com
Islamic African states lined up on Friday to block a European Union move to reinstate a U.N. human rights expert for the Democratic Republic of Congo, where human rights abuses are continuing after years of warfare.
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Sign Petition: Ask President Obama to Send a Special Envoy to the Congo
World  (tags: world, Rwanda, Congo, starvation, children, women, men, war, fighting, rape, looting, violence, humanrights, government, death, conflict )

Tom
- 242 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Since 1998, an estimated 5.4 million people have died due to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), while countless others fled to neighboring countries for safety or remain in camps far from their homes.
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UN Reports Tens of Thousands More Flee Armed Groups in Congo
World  (tags: world, violence, war, Congo, genocide, starvation, rape, children, women, abuse, Africa, UN, EU, Geneva, Rwanda, politics, humanrights, crime, death )

Tom
- 242 days ago - un.org
Over 250,000 people have been displaced this year in North Kivu, while in Orientale region, nearly 190,000 have been displaced in the last six months, and some 16,000 refugees have fled to South Sudan. Children are abducted as soldiers and sex slaves.
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Women in Congo Speak Out About Rape Despite Taboo
World  (tags: world, UN, Africa, Congo, Tutsi, rape, suffering, women, violence, humanrights, government, crime )

Tom
- 250 days ago - nytimes.com
Zamuda Sikujuwa shuffles to a bench in the sunshine, pushes apart her thighs with a grimace of pain and pumps her fist up and down in a lewd-looking gesture to show how the militiamen shoved an automatic rifle inside her.
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Sign Petition: Stop Rape of Women in the Congo!
World  (tags: world, obama, USA, UN, Africa, Congo, Tutsi, rape, suffering, women, violence, humanrights, government, crime )

Tom
- 250 days ago - www2.americanprogress.org
Since 1996, eastern Congo has been the epicenter of the deadliest war since World War II, and it remains a place where combatants on all sides routinely use rape and sexual violence as a weapon to destroy women, families, and communities.
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Chinese Demand and Financial Crisis Cause Surge in Kenya Elephant Poaching
World  (tags: world, africa, japan, china, smugglers, poachers, tusks, congo, financial crisis, money, crime, animals, elephants, ivory, wildlife, humans, death )

Tom
- 273 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A combination of the global economic crisis and soaring Chinese demand for ivory has prompted a "dramatic and alarming" surge in elephant poaching in Kenya. "This is something we have not seen for a very long time, if at all," said Patrick Omondi.
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Eastern Congo Is Priority for U.N. Peacekeepers
World  (tags: world, africa, Congo, UnitedNations, Refugees&Relief, conflict )

Cal
- 338 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Conflict is being fueled by festering ethnic hatred
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CONGO: STOP THE BLOODSHED!
World  (tags: africa, Congo, world, violence )

Cal
- 360 days ago - secure.avaaz.org
This morning, we received this tense demand for action from from Liberata Rumumba, a refugee and women's leader in Eastern Congo pleading for Europe to send peacekeepers to protect her people. Please Watch the Video!
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Commentary: War Is Stealing Congo's Young
World  (tags: world, africa, conflict, Congo, war )

Cal
- 365 days ago - cnn.com
Violence between warring factions continues in the Democratic Republic of Congo despite rebel pledges to cease fire. Hundreds of thousands have been uprooted from their homes, and children are being forced into war
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U.N. Hands Out Food Behind Congo Rebel Lines
World  (tags: africa, world, Congo, Refugees&Relief, UnitedNations, conflict, war )

Cal
- 375 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Thousands of refugees who have been pushed off their land line up for aid
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Children Separated By Violence in Congo
World  (tags: children, world, war, violence, Congo, africa )

Cal
- 377 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Hundreds have lost their families, exposing them to abuse, trauma
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Hungry Congo Refugees Get Soap, No Food
World  (tags: congo, refugees, food crisis, UnitedNations, humans, hunger, medical supplies, conflict, violence, war, suffering )


- 386 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Refugees who haven't eaten for days cheered when the first humanitarian convoy in a week arrived Monday at their camp, but the jubilation turned into anger when U.N. workers dumped soap and jerry cans instead of food and sped on past rebel lines.
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Hutu Militias in Congo: 'We Have to Kill Tutsis Wherever They Are'
World  (tags: rwanda, congo, hutu, tutsi, genocide, militias )


- 560 days ago - guardian.co.uk
In the crucible of the ensuing war in neighbouring Congo, Hutu fugitives behind the massacres of the Rwandan genocide are training their children to carry on the mission of extermination, and awaiting their opportunity to return to the mother country.
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