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Sasha Lezhnev, who spoke at the 2010 Human Rights Arts Festival on conflict minerals and how our cell phones contribute to violence in the Congo, left for Africa shortly after he came and talked at our event. He recently sent out an email with some really great news on both the push to convince more Senators to sign onto the Senate Conflict Minerals Bill and also about the situation on the ground.

Awesome job guys! Just saw that Arlen Specter is on the Senate conflict…

This past Saturday, Nuru International, along with the Pittsburgh Human Rights Network, sponsored the Be Hope to Her event, which raised awareness and money to fight extreme poverty. Let me tell you, it was COLD. The weather had been great leading up to the event, but come Saturday morning, the temperature had dropped significantly. I was worried that…

Lately, the office has been busy. All last week, Global Solutions, along with the Project to End Human Trafficking, hosted Enslaved in the Modern World Week. It included lectures, a movie screening, and a student working group. The student working group met last Friday and began discussing ways that students from around the area can come together to raise awareness and take action on the problem of…

The rape, disease, displacement, starvation, mutilation, and death of millions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continually goes unnoticed by the global community.

The conflict in the Congo is the most deadly since World War II, yet the majority of Americans are unaware of the causes or the costs. Many of the materials in our electronics – laptops, cell phones, PDAs - require minerals mined from the Congo’s vast reserves of natural resources.…