Invisible Conflicts is a student organization started at Loyola University Chicago devoted to exposing the conflicts which are neglected by most western media and governments. We tell the stories of these invisible conflicts through the use of film, music, and conversations. It is the mission of IC to build relationships between communities of power and privilege to communities of poverty and oppression.
Global Witness exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses.
High in the mountains of South Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a Congolese miner caked in sweat and dust hacks at rock in search of precious minerals.
Some of his fellow miners in the region look for coltan, a mineral used in the manufacture of mobile phones. Others search for gold.
This man is using an iron stake and a simple shovel to dig for cassiterite, or raw tin.
Much of the final product from the efforts of cassiterite miners like him ends up as the microscopically-thin layer of tin which lines metal food and drink cans.
THE poverty-stricken father of Slumdog Millionaire child star Rubina Ali plans to become a millionaire himself-by SELLING his nine-year-old daughter.
In a bid to escape India's real-life slums, Rafiq Qureshi put angel-faced darling of the Oscars Rubina up for adoption, demanding millions of rupees worth £200,000.
Free the Slaves is a not for profit organization made up of people who don't want to live in a world with slavery. And they're willing to do something about it.
We don't waste time debating which kind of slavery is worse -- brick kilns or carpet looms, sex or domestic, new or old -- it's all horrible. Slavery is a dark slash across the heart of all humanity.
Global Witness exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses.
Free the Slaves is a not for profit organization made up of people who don't want to live in a world with slavery. And they're willing to do something about it.
