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Congo (DR) conflict

Last reviewed: 22-07-2009

CONGO CONFLICTS DEFY PEACE


  • AlertNet has contact numbers for aid agencies working in Democratic Republic of Congo.

  • BBC country profile for Congo

  • Global Witness, a British organisation dedicated to investigating resource wars and corruption, details Congo's natural wealth, not just coltan and cassiterite.

  • Human Rights Watch, a U.S.-based organisation with experienced researchers such as Anneke Van Woudenberg

  • The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre offers regularly updated links to the latest reports from aid agencies.

  • International Criminal Court, which is investigating war crimes, lists its rulings on Ugandan and Rwandan involvement in Congo, as well as its cases against former militia leaders.

  • International Crisis Group, a Belgian-based think tank, offers analysis. Good reports on security reforms and violence in Katanga.

  • International Rescue Committee mortality surveys are the definitive guide to how many people die in Congo, mostly because violence stops them tending crops, getting to market or reaching health care.

  • The Congo Advocacy Coalition reported in mid-2008 on the high rape rates in the province of North Kivu.

  • The Panzi Hospital of Bukavu treats survivors of sexual violence as one of its priorities.

  • Glamour magazine published a good article about rape in Congo by writer Eve Ensler in 2007.

  • Website of the U.N. Mission for Congo, MONUC includes U.N. standards on sexual abuse by peacekeepers.

  • U.S.-based advocacy organisation Refugees International is good for explanations of the tit-for-tat ethnic violence in eastern Congo.

  • International relief agency Medecins Sans Frontieres operates in some of Congo's most inaccessible areas.

  • The website of the U.N. Women's Fund, UNIFEM includes useful links as well as reports on work on sexual violence.

  • This U.N. humanitarian site for Congo (in French) rounds up the latest news from the aid world, including U.N. radio, and maps which aid agencies are doing what, where.


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