The Order of Mal­ta would like to thank the Spe­cial Rap­por­teur for her Report and espe­cial­ly for On 4 Octo­ber 2017, the Spe­cial Rap­por­teur chaired a ses­sion on child sex­u­al abuse online, at the World Con­gress on Child Dig­ni­ty in the Dig­i­tal World, orga­nized by the…

Livret illus­tré sur l’in­ter­dic­tion de l’u­til­i­sa­tion d’en­fants sol­dats en RDC Ce livret illus­tré présente, de manière con­viviale, les lois nationales et inter­na­tionales inter­dis­ant le recrute­ment d’en­fants et qui sont en vigueur dans la République démoc­ra­tique du Congo…

The African Great Lakes Ini­tia­tive (AGLI) of the Friends Peace Teams strength­ens, sup­ports, and pro­motes peace activ­i­ties at the grass­roots lev­el in the Great Lakes region of Africa (Burun­di, Con­go, Kenya, Rwan­da, Tan­za­nia, and Ugan­da). To this…

Until recent years, the con­flict min­er­als sup­ply chain was a very lucra­tive scheme for Congo’s armed groups and even parts of the Con­golese army. But now that’s all chang­ing. Check out Enough’s updat­ed con­flict min­er­als 101 video and learn about what you can do to…

The project to counter geno­cide and crimes against human­i­ty. The Enough Project sup­ports peace and an end to mass atroc­i­ties in Africa’s dead­liest con­flict zones. Togeth­er with its inves­tiga­tive ini­tia­tive The Sen­try, Enough coun­ters armed…

The Lake Tan­ganyi­ka Float­ing Health Clin­ic (LTFHC) has been help­ing the com­mu­ni­ties liv­ing in the Lake Tan­ganyi­ka Basin for over five years. In this almost whol­ly neglect­ed area we: Deliv­er vital health­care Dis­trib­ute nec­es­sary med­ical supplies…

As a direct out­come of the war, mater­nal mor­tal­i­ty was on the rise. The safe­ty of all women and girls were being impact­ed by bru­tal forces that rav­aged their bod­ies in unimag­in­able ways. Dr. Mukwege’s first patient was a sur­vivor of rape, whose…

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The Horn of Africa (HoA) remains a major source of mixed migra­tion, with peo­ple mov­ing to neigh­bour­ing coun­tries, the Gulf, South­ern Africa and Europe. There are mul­ti­ple dri­vers of migra­tion, from issues around polit­i­cal per­se­cu­tion, armed con­flict and natural…

On Mon­day, the 12th of Feb­ru­ary, 2018, at the UNHCR HQ in Gene­va, Dr. Volk­er Türk, assis­tant High Com­mis­sion­er for Pro­tec­tion, pre­sent­ed the HCR Zero Draft GLOBAL COMPACT ON REFUGEES. He stressed that: The Draft GCR does not aim to be an all-encompassing…