Why is nobody talking about this?
Despite a new law requiring US companies to clean up supply chains, little effort has been made.
(BET News) — Judges of the International Criminal Court suspended the trial of an accused Congolese warlord on Thursday, saying the prosecution’s refusal to disclose information had rendered it unfair. Thomas Lubanga, 49, has pleaded not guilty to charges of using child soldiers in a brutal conflict in the eastern Congo region of Ituri in 2002-2003. […]
(Associated Press) — A leading Congolese human rights activist killed this week had suffered a pattern of intimidation because of his work, a senior U.N. official said Thursday, as a rights group questioned whether police were already staging a cover-up. The body of Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, head of Voix des Sans Voix, or Voice of […]