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Education is an important value and function of Invisible Conflicts. As we are exposed to the realities of conflicts around the world we are compelled to know more. But it is not enough for only a small group of people to know what is happening around the world we want everyone to know. So we seek creative, compelling ways to educate our social circles with the hope that once you are exposed you too will want act on behalf of the millions around the world who are silenced by war and oppression.

Recent Conflicts Articles

UN Says Deadly LRA Weekend Attacks Imperil Northeastern Congo Population

A UN refugee agency team looking after victims of the latest Ugandan rebel strikes on two villages in Congo’s northeastern Orientale province is warning of dire conditions for thousands of newly displaced civilians. Napopo and Nagero are the latest villages allegedly raided by DRC-based Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels. The rebel show of force was staged in retaliation for a three-nation military mission launched jointly by Uganda, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo against the rebels on December 14. Since then, more than 500 Congolese have been killed in the violence.

Leaders of diamond-fuelled terror campaign convicted by Sierra Leone’s Special Court

Global Witness welcomes the Special Court for Sierra Leone's conviction yesterday of three senior commanders of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

During eleven years of civil war, the RUF waged a devastating campaign of terror against Sierra Leone's population, which it financed via the trade in conflict diamonds. The RUF's tactics included mass murder, rape and the systematic amputation of victims' limbs. By the time the movement laid down its arms in 2002, tens of thousands of Sierra Leoneans had been killed.

Poverty-Stricken Father of Slumdog Millionaire Child Star Rubina Ali Plans to Sell His Nine-Year-Old Daughter.

Father tries to cash in on daughter's fame

By Mazher Mahmood, 19/04/2009

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.

From Rebel-Held Congo to Beer Can

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.