02.03.11 CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFING WILL ADDRESS U.N. REPORT ON ATROCITIES IN THE CONGO AND GREAT LAKES REGION OF AFRICA

You are requested to attend a congressional briefing
held by several organizations for justice and
peace in Africa, to outline the
key role the United States has to play in making sure that justice
is
delivered to the people of Central Africa. The briefing will explore
whether U.S. funding to
Rwanda and Uganda contributed to the mass atrocities,
crimes against humanity, war crimes and
possibly genocide in the
Congo.

The briefing co-sponsors are: African Great Lakes Advocacy
Coalition (Africa Faith and Justice
Network, Friends of the Congo, Institute
for Policy Studies' Foreign Policy in Focus project,
African Great Lakes
Action Network, Foundation for Freedom and Democracy in Rwanda,
Congo Global
Action Coalition, International Humanitarian Law Institute of St.
Paul,
Mobilization for Peace and Justice in Congo.

Who: Bahati Jacques, Africa Faith & Justice
Network, Nita Evele, Congo Global Action Coalition,
Nii Akuetteh, Africa
Policy Analyst, Emira Woods, Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute
of
Policy Studies, Claude Gatebuke, African Great Lakes Action Network
(AGLAN),

When: Wednesday, March 2,
2011, 2:00 – 4:00 pm.

Where: 
Rayburn House Office Building, 45 Independence Ave. SW, Wash DC.Room
2226

Contacts:  Netfa Freeman,
301-938-4628 or netfa@ips-dc.org

For more information, please visit www.friendsofthecongo.org or www.afjn.org.