Congo Resources

“We don’t understand why President Obama would want to cut off Congo’s minerals,” said Idrissa Assani, expressing a sentiment clearly shared...

How many Congolese children are going to bed hungry tonight because of Dodd-Frank 1502? This is not a rhetorical question. In fact, we hav...

Fred Robarts, in his capacity as the Coordinator for the  UN  Group of Experts on the DRC, has written to SEC Chair Mary Schapiro asking tha...

"We can not give you exactly the number of lives that are lost each day following the cessation of artisanal mining in the DRC and yet ...

In my post on Enough's decision to call for a one-year delay in the implementation of Dodd-Frank, I reported that Enough's Sasha Le...

 "U.S. Special Forces to Exterminate African Cannibals"                                              -- Pravda headline regardin...

Tuesday's SEC roundtable on Dodd-Frank 1502 was a drily legalistic affair, with SEC staff grilling participants about how they should de...

“For those of us who enjoy these products every day, I’d like to enjoy it with a clear conscience.”                                        ...

I spoke last month at the New York City Bar Association * on the predictable but unintended consequences of DF 1502 on armed conflict and ec...

I asked representatives of Enough and Global Witness today whether they would join me in calling for a social impact analysis of the  embarg...