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		<title>The Trade in Blood Minerals: Your Gadgets are Killing the Congo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mindboggling violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the past ten years has seen more dead bodies than the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur and Iraq combined. At the heart of the conflict are the so-called ‘blood minerals’ or ‘conflict minerals’ whose unregulated trade has been ruling the country, enriching its politicians and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congo: a concept ‘by vultures in search of legitimization of their plunders’ (or does ‘mineral rich and war torn’ Congo really exist?)</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/congo-a-concept-by-vultures-in-search-of-legitimization-of-their-plunders-or-does-rich-and-war-torn-congo-really-exist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is touted to be a ‘vast, mineral rich and war torn country.’ Some experts do not buy the image. One thing is certain, though. The country is a failure, especially in its attempts at conflict reconstruction. For starters, Congo seems to have the world’s largest franchise of human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton and the Epidemic of Violence Against Women in the Congo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During her official trip to Africa, Hillary Clinton had planned to impress upon her interlocutors the need to fight against corruption. The head of American diplomacy even insinuated that people take to the streets to protest against their corrupt governments. Among the themes that the US Secretary of State had chosen for this trip is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NGOs oppose UN troops’ continued offensive against the radical Hutus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), installed since November 1999 and a mission that has already been costing $1 billion, reported that its troops did not suspend the current military operations against the Front démocratique pour la liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) in the east. NGOs have requested the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan and Eastern Congo: Ground Zero of the War on Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=19302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Afghanistan and Eastern Congo, there is more than the undermining of the political, judicial, and civil rights of women. In these two countries, women are not considered as fellow humans to men. The treatment of women in these countries is beyond degrading; it is barbaric, even bizarre. Hatred towards the female is cultural in [...]]]></description>
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