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Blog Posts in Raise Hope for Congo
Self-proclaimed ‘mama’s boys,’ actor Javier Bardem and Enough’s John Prendergast, teamed up to make this video drawing attention to the plight of mothers in eastern Congo. With Mother’s Day around the corner, Bardem and Prendergast sat down to talk about the role that the United States – and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the “Mom in Chief,” especially – should play in working for peace in Congo.
Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Ruined” has been traveling the country in recent months and has arrived at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. At Enough, we have long promoted the play and worked with Nottage and the New York cast to bring a staged reading to the Kennedy Center in 2009. We are thrilled that a full production has now opened in Washington, so that audiences here – with a concentration of policy makers and influentials – can be moved by the story.
The primary takeaway from Rwanda’s recent announcement that it would ban the sale of Congo conflict minerals is that since the international push for mineral certification has picked up momentum, Rwanda has been angling to paint itself as the source for conflict-free minerals in the region despite its unwillingness or inability to stop the flow of Congolese minerals across its borders.
Children around the world recently had the opportunity to vote for their favorite child hero for 2011. After a “Global Vote” of 3.2 million children, Murhabazi Namegabe of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was announced as the winner of the 2011 World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child “for his dangerous struggle to free children forced to be child soldiers or sex slaves.” He will be presented with the award today in Sweden.
In Enough’s recent reporting from Walikale, a remote, minerals rich area of eastern Congo, we’ve noted in no uncertain terms that the humanitarian, security, and economic situation there is precarious. A decade after large mineral deposits were found in the region, livelihoods have become inextricably intertwined with mining, but the benefits of Walikale’s minerals fail to trickle down to the local population. One of the most promising initiatives for formalizing the mining industry is the establishment of centres de negoce, or trading centers.
