Friends of the Congo
The Friends of the Congo (FOTC) is a 501 (c) 3 tax-exempt advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. The FOTC was established in 2004 to work in partnership with Congolese to bring about peaceful and lasting change in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire.
Congo Week
Breaking the Silence Congo Week is a week of activities that commemorates the millions of lives lost in the Congo conflict while celebrating the enormous human and natural potential that exists in the country. Communities throughout the globe join in partnership with Congolese each year on the third week of October to screen films, hold teach-ins and forums, organize rallies, host fundraisers, put on concerts and undertake many other activities to elevate the profile of the Congo throughout the globe. Students and community organizers initiated Congo Week in 2008. Religious leaders, scholars, intellectuals, artists, and ordinary people throughout the globe also got involved to acknowledge the lives of the Congolese people and their pursuit for human dignity.
Crisis in
the Congo: Uncovering the Truth
Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering the Truth explores the role that the United States and its allies, Rwanda and Uganda, have played in triggering the greatest humanitarian crisis at the dawn of the 21st century. The film is a short version of a feature length production to be released in the near future. It locates the Congo crisis in a historical, social and political context. It unveils analysis and prescriptions by leading experts, practitioners, activists and intellectuals that are not normally available to the general public. The film is a call to conscience and action.
Congo
Initiative
Our commitment to hope for the Democratic Republic of Congo is manifested through higher education, leadership development and community transformation initiatives. The D.R. Congo is a vast land, richly endowned with natural and cultural resources, but struggling to rebuild in the aftermath of colonial exploitation and devastating war. However, we see evidence that God is doing a new thing in this part of the world.
Congo Global Voice
The conference is the first of its kind where people of the global south who are victims of resource exploitation and environmental degradation join in solidarity to highlight their local issues and challenges that they share with the Congo. http://www.congoglobalvoice.org/
Blood in the Mobile
Human Rights
Watch
The conference is the first of its kind where people of the global south who are victims of resource exploitation and environmental degradation join in solidarity to highlight their local issues and challenges that they share with the Congo. http://www.congoglobalvoice.org/
Blood in the Mobile
The documentary film Blood in the Mobile shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo. Director Frank Poulsen travels to DR Congo to see the illegal mine industry with his own eyes. He gets access to Congo’s largest tin-mine, which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work for days in narrow mine tunnels to dig out the minerals that end up in our phones. After visiting the mine Frank Poulsen struggles to get to talk to Nokia, the Worlds largest phone company. Frank Poulsen wants them to guarantee that they are not buying conflict minerals and thereby is financing the war in the Congo. Nokia cannot give him that guarantee. http://bloodinthemobile.org/
Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of more than 280 staff members around the globe. Its staff consists of the human rights professionals including country experts, lawyers, journalists, and academics of diverse backgrounds and nationalities.
Established in 1978, Human Rights Watch is known for its accurate fact-finding, impartial reporting, effective use of media, and targeted advocacy, often in partnership with local human rights groups. Each year, Human Rights Watch publishes more than 100 reports and briefings on human rights conditions in some 90 countries, generating extensive coverage in local and international media.
With the leverage this brings, Human Rights Watch meets with governments, the United Nations, regional groups like the African Union and the European Union, financial institutions, and corporations to press for changes in policy and practice that promote human rights and justice around the world.
V-Day
V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM), and sex slavery.
STAND
STAND
is the student-led movement to end mass atrocities. At its core, our mission is
to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop
genocide. From our innovative Leadership Team to our network of thoughtful
and change-oriented student activists, we are mobilizing campuses and
communities across the country to act against global atrocities.
Global
Witness
Global Witness investigates and campaigns to prevent natural resource related conflict and corruption, and associated environmental and human rights abuses. From undercover investigations, to high level lobby meetings, we aim to engage on every level where we might make a difference and bring about change.
Women for
Women International
Women for Woman International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools societies. We're changing the world one woman at a time.
Georges
Malaika Foundation
Named in memory of Noella Coursaris Musunka's father, Georges, and the Swahili word malaika, for 'angel', the Georges Malaika Foundation (GMF) is empowering through education. GMF is dedicated to the advancement of African communities by providing educational opportunities to young girls, ages 5 to 18.
Heal Africa
Founded over a decade ago during the peak of the conflict by Congolese orthopedic surgeon Jo Lusi and his social activist wife Lyn, the US organization HEAL Africa is a direct a direct response to these horrific conditions. Heal Africa partners proactively with communities in DR Congo to transform the status of women and bring village life back into balance. Through support of a full-service training hospital in Goma and its community-based initiatives in public health, community development, and conflict resolution, HEAL Africa works with individuals and communities to restore health, built hope, and help create a better future for all people of the DR Congo. Today HEAL African helps support a Congolese staff of 28 doctors, 54 nurses, 340+ community development advocates and educators, a small administrative team, and hundreds of Congolese volunteers.
Panzi
Hospital
In 2008, Dr. Denis Mukwege, Dr. Lee Ann De Reus and Peter Frantz established Panzi Foundation to support the ongoing work of Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, DR Congo and create new outreach projects to rural clinics and communities.
Eastern
Congo Initiative
ECI envisions an eastern Congo vibrant with abundant opportunities for economic and social development, where a robust civil society can flourish. ECI believes that these local, community-based approaches are the key to creating a successful society in eastern Congon. We also believe that public and private partnerships, combines with advocacy that drives public policy change and increased attention, will create new opportunities for the people of eastern Congo.
Conflict
Minerals
The conflict mineral blog is an effort to share the truth behind the historic exploitation of Congo and the role that Western nations continue to play in formenting conflict, breeding dependency and keeping the Congolese people impoverished.
Raise Hope
for Congo
Raise
Hope for Congo, a campaign of the Enough Project, aims to build a permanent and
diverse constituency of activists who will advocate for the human rights of all
Congolese citizens and work towards ending the ongoing conflict in eastern
Congo.
Raise
Hope for Congo and the Enough Project collaborate with national and local
groups across the U.S., as well as local Congolese organizations, to build this
grassroots movement.
Dear Hillary
Campaign
Since war broke out in 1998, more than five million people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and tens of thousands of women and girls have been raped and tortured. A cease-fire was declared in 2002, but foreign militias have continued to terrorize the Congolese population. We believe that ending the violence in East Congo, which is greater than any conflict since World War II, should be a foreign policy priority for the United States. As the most powerful woman in the world, Secretart of State Hillary Clinton must use use her influence to stop the suffering and slaughter. Specifically, the "Dear Hillary" Campaign calls for a U.S. Special Envoy to the Greater Lakes Region of Africa. The Dear Hillary Campaign for the Congo aims to create a public outcry to pressure Secretary Clinton and the United States to an active role in establishing peace and security in the DRC.
Save the
Congo
Save the Congo was founded by Vava Tampa; and met for the first time in a basement hall of St. Monica's Church, a Roman Catholic Church, on Friday, July 4th, 2008. Inspite of public invitation on social networking sites such as Facebook and HI5, only 6 people turned up. All six: Lulu Kitilolo (http://www.lulukitololo.com/), Denise Kongo (Save the Congo's Director of Finance), Paul, Petronella (Paul's girlfriend), John-H and Pid'ange (both Vava's brothers) are recognised as "Honourary Co-Founding Members of Save the Congo.
Jason
Stearns
"I am a political analyst and scientist focusing on conflict and Africa's Great Lakes region. I am the director of the Rift Valley Institute's Usalama Project, a research project on armed groups in the eastern Congo. I have also worked as the coordinator of the United Nations Group of Experts on the Congo; for Heritiers de la Justice, a local human rights NGO; the UN peacekeeping mission MONUC; and the International Crisis Group. A book I wrote on the conflict, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, was published in March 2011. I am currently getting my PhD at Yale University."
Congo
Leadership Initiative
In short, CLI trains young leaders. This is accomplished through an intensive leadership development curriculum called the Leadership Institute. CLI works with talented youth from all fields of study and with different ambitions, changing them from untapped resources into engines for change. The result in a cohort of skilled leaders that can spark true development and shatter the colonialism of dependency that cripples the Congo.
Congo Story
Congo Story is the research and communications arm of the 501(c)3 CAMP Fund, which supports grassroots medical and educational organizations in Eastern DR Congo. The CAMP Fund's mission is to equip and empower local Congolese as agents of care and peaceful development in the conflict-ridden Kivu region.
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