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Congo HeadlinesResults Page:UNTITLED DOCUMENT - 1056561629Date Added: Monday, June 16th, 2003Contributed by: RCN Administrator
UNITED NATIONS (June 17) -- More and more hungry Congolese children are wielding guns; rape and mutilation are on the increase and access to food, health care and education is rapidly deteriorating, according to a report by humanitarian and advocacy groups issued on Monday.
Appealing to the U.N. Security Council to direct more attention towards children in the Congo, key non-governmental organizations have pooled their research and drawn on U.N. studies to highlight the plight of youngsters, especially in the eastern Congo, where fighting has increased. Julia Freedson, coordinator of the study, "Watchlist," told a news conference that more children die in eastern Congo in a week than soldiers did in Iraq since the beginning of the war. Children face "horrific violence and massive tragedies," she said. Anne Edgerton of Refugees International said an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 children under 18 were recruited into various armies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "These are children carrying guns, not porters," she said. In the past two years, Edgerton said recruitment of boys and girls had spread out from urban centers to villages in remote areas where "there are no international eyes." "So we are having an effect in some ways. It used to be more visible. Now it is much more insidious," she said. Kathleen Hunt of CARE International, said that at a minimum the 4,600 U.N. peacekeepers in the Congo, who were observing a cease-fire line away from the fighting, should do more to monitor abuses against children as a signal to the perpetrators they would be exposed. Some 600 civilians and 710 local staff are also part of the mission. They and neighboring countries should make sure there is humanitarian access and that children’s security and rights are a priority in their agenda. She said donor nations should ensure financial resources for the peacekeepers as well as the U.N. Children’s Fund and other humanitarian groups. Hunt said too little attention had been paid to sexual violence and disfigurement against women and girls, citing U.N. surveys of hospitals where raped girls and women needed reconstructive surgery. "We believe it is high time we bring more attention to what is probably a widespread practice," Hunt said. 06/16/03 18:11 ET Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.
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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGODate Added: Monday, June 16th, 2003Contributed by: RCN Administrator
UNITED NATIONS (June 17) -- More and more hungry Congolese children are wielding guns; rape and mutilation are on the increase and access to food, health care and education is rapidly deteriorating, according to a report by humanitarian and advocacy groups issued on Monday.
Appealing to the U.N. Security Council to direct more attention towards children in the Congo, key non-governmental organizations have pooled their research and drawn on U.N. studies to highlight the plight of youngsters, especially in the eastern Congo, where fighting has increased.
Julia Freedson, coordinator of the study, "Watchlist," told a news conference that more children die in eastern Congo in a week than soldiers did in Iraq since the beginning of the war.
Children face "horrific violence and massive tragedies," she said.
Anne Edgerton of Refugees International said an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 children under 18 were recruited into various armies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
"These are children carrying guns, not porters," she said. In the past two years, Edgerton said recruitment of boys and girls had spread out from urban centers to villages in remote areas where "there are no international eyes."
"So we are having an effect in some ways. It used to be more visible. Now it is much more insidious," she said.
Kathleen Hunt of CARE International, said that at a minimum the 4,600 U.N. peacekeepers in the Congo, who were observing a cease-fire line away from the fighting, should do more to monitor abuses against children as a signal to the perpetrators they would be exposed. Some 600 civilians and 710 local staff are also part of the mission.
They and neighboring countries should make sure there is humanitarian access and that children's security and rights are a priority in their agenda. She said donor nations should ensure financial resources for the peacekeepers as well as the U.N. Children's Fund and other humanitarian groups.
Hunt said too little attention had been paid to sexual violence and disfigurement against women and girls, citing U.N. surveys of hospitals where raped girls and women needed reconstructive surgery.
"We believe it is high time we bring more attention to what is probably a widespread practice," Hunt said.
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CORRUPTION EXPOSEDDate Added: Wednesday, December 31st, 1969Contributed by: RCN Administrator
Congo-Brazzaville’s President Sassou Nguesso invoked an Archaic Law --
A court in Paris has thrown out a case brought by three African heads of state against a French author for writing a book criticising their regimes. The presidents of Congo-Brazzaville, Chad and Gabon brought the case against Francois-Xavier Verschave under a law from 1881 which makes it a crime to offend a foreign head of state. In the book Noir Silence (Black Silence), the author accuses the leaders of everything from drug trafficking to mass murder. But the court dismissed their claim, declaring that the law was in contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects freedom of speech. Corruption exposed. The court said there was no legal definition of "offend" under the terms of the law and the term was so broad as to be almost impossible to define. Mr Pasqua won a symbolic victory Mr Verschave is a member of a pressure group which aims to expose corrupt African regimes and the role which successive French administrations played in supporting them. |
