60 Minutes Takes On Congo’s Conflict Minerals
After an eventful trip to eastern Congo in June and many months in production, the all-new segment CONGO GOLD aired tonight on CBS’ 60 Minutes ...
Congo Advocacy, Circa 1909
Nestled between an ad for the latest trend in pocket watches and a headline predicting a “Busy Winter for Suffrage,” a column in the New York Times 100 years ago today highlighted a rare eyewitness report about atrocities in Congo ...
And Then There Was One
As celebrations around the world today marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Somalia announced that it would ratify the accord. The United States is now the lone country not backing the most widely supported international human rights treaty ...
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The Conflict Minerals Bill: A Round-Up
The next big corporate social responsibility movement – to end the deadly trade in Congo’s conflict minerals – got a major boost today with the introduction of the Conflict Minerals Trade Act (HR 4128) ...
Congress Takes On Mineral Trade Fueling Congo’s War
Momentum is building to take action against the root causes of the world’s worst sexual violence, which is taking place as we speak in eastern Congo. Today, we’re on the Hill for a momentous occasion – the introduction of the Conflict Minerals Trade Act of 2009 sponsored by Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) ...
US No Longer Snubbing ICC
A rather remarkable development in the ongoing saga of U.S. relations with the International Criminal Court emerged from a press conference in Nairobi today ...
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WaPo: Losing The Fight For Darfur
Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson is spot on in this morning’s column, “Losing the fight in Darfur.” ...
RUINED Captivates DC Crowd
We were thrilled to welcome the cast of RUINED, the Pulitzer prize-winning drama, to Washington for a staged reading on Monday night. Eager to get the real-life message of the play out to an audience of D.C. influentials, the cast donated their performance, which they delivered to a packed house at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater ...
