POUR DIFFUSION IMMEDIATE LUCHA/ Communication Unit Save The Congo! Déclaration conjointe des groupes de la société civile congolaise sur La Conférence humanitaire de haut niveau sur la République démocratique du Congo Kinshasa, Londres, le 12 avril 2018 – Nous, les soussignés groupes…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LUCHA/ Communication Unit Save The Congo! Joint Statement of Congolese Civil Society Groups on the High–Level Humanitarian Conference on the Democratic Republic of Congo, taking place tomorrow Friday 13 in Geneva Kinshasa, London, 12 April 2018 – We, the undersigned Congolese…
Senator Russell Feingold, the U.S. special envoy working to stabilize Africa’s Great Lakes region, will speak at the U.S. Institute of Peace on February 24 following his latest visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He returned days ago from the DRC, where he pressed the government to deliver on its commitment to take…
Rt. Hon. William Hague, MP Secretary of State for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Foreign & Commonwealth Office King Charles Street London SW1A 2AH Wednesday, June 29th, 2014 Dear Mr Hague, International Criminal Tribunal for Congo Ten years ago this June, 16 000 Congolese women were raped in a single weekend when Laurent Nkunda and…
48 women are raped in the Congo alone every hour. Sign now to end this! Little Marie was only 13 years old when she was caught by a militia group and taken into the bush where she was repeatedly abused for 8 endless months. Every single minute, one woman is being mercilessly raped in the…
As part of our #48AnHour campaign, which was launched on Wednesday 26th, Alliance Deputy Leader Naomi Long, MP, tabled an Early Day Parliamentary Motion (EDM 1180: Tackling Warzone Rape in Congo and Beyond) with cross party support and states to help raise awareness of the use of rape as a weapon of war in Congo and in other…
Save the Congo is calling upon MONUSCO to turn its attention to eliminating and to prioritise actions against Rwanda’s FDLR (Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda), which is made up largely of Hutu refugees and whose leadership took part in the Tutsi genocide in 1994 in Rwanda, and has been operating with impunity in eastern…
Save the Congo is calling up the UNSC to renew MONUSCO FIB mandate when it expires this March to help neutralise all negative forces, foreign or local, tyrannising Congo’s eastern regions; and to consider tougher consequences for those parties who do not cease support to armed groups operating in Congo. On the adoption of UN…