http://www.uk.oneworld.net/article/country/180/ en_GB_uk Congo (Democratic Republic of) http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83847 How your mobile phone is linked to abuse, fraud and unfair mining practices in DR Congo. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83846 European leaders have been urged to do more to bring lasting peace in eastern Congo as EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels to review the EU's military and police reform missions there. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83812 Uganda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo say they have agreed to jointly fight Lord's Resistance Army rebels if peace talks with its elusive leader, Joseph Kony, fail, according to a Ugandan military official. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83730 Hollywood actor David Harewood, a star of the film Blood Diamond, is supporting CAFOD's new exhibition which reveals the truth behind the glamour of gold through images and accounts from three continents. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/160250/1/ The Frontline Club is running a Congo season of films and talks, 6-15 May. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83541 The Democratic Republic of Congo and armed groups must enforce a January peace treaty meant to conclude 10 years of conflict, urged 63 local and international non-governmental organizations. From: Human Rights Watch http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83521 Climate change, the oil industry, and the construction of the world's largest dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo must be prioritized by African and U.S. leaders to support sustainable development on the continent, says a new report released on Earth Day. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83513 Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by Uganda's rebel Lord’s Resistance Army in recent weeks. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83476 Seven African governments and the world's largest banks and construction firms meet in London today to plan the most powerful dam ever conceived - an $80bn hydropower project on the Congo river which supporters say could double the amount of electricity available on the continent. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/159555/1/ Hundreds of Cogolese villagers - mostly hunter-gatherers or subsistence farmers - will use high-tech GPS (Global Positioning System) devices to produce digital maps to prove their existence to the government and to loggers. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83003 Women's rights advocates shed light on sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- in some villages as many as 90 percent of women have been raped -- and explain how local women leaders are fighting back. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82909 In the Democratic Republic of Congo, "women and girls are victims of rape on a scale never seen before." This collection of photos shows survivors recovering and rebuilding their lives with the help of an international refugee agency. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82835 Indigenous rights activists have embarked on a three-month campaign to free enslaved indigenous people in the Democratic Republic of Congo by meeting with and educating -- as opposed to 'shaming and denouncing' -- slave owners. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82763 The world has largely turned its attention away from humanitarian crises in Somalia, Sri Lanka, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burma, but the world body shouldn't, said a prominent human rights group this week. From: Human Rights Watch http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82471 A journalist invokes scenes from her recent visit to a rural hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo before delving into the grossly underreported disparities between the American "Health Care World of Plenty" and the DRC's "Health Care World of Want."