Peter Henriot, a member of the Oregon province of Jesuits, explains why he has chosen to continue his work in Africa. He claims that the "eucharistic famine" is the most critical issue for the ...African church.
The influx of Rwandan refugees entering Zaire has overwhelmed the already impoverished mountainous region of Zaire and the relief organizations and Catholic churches servicing the refugees. The ...desparate situation of the Zaire region and the lack of provisions provided to Zaire peoples because of the refugees are discussed.
Vatican applies muscle at U.N Collins, Carole
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In a rather undiplomatic move, the Holy See's Permanent Observer Mission to the UN sought to ban four abortion rights Catholic groups from attending the Sep 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in ...Beijing China. The effort failed, and it generated a great deal of media visibility for the four groups.
The methods used by the UN for dealing with the explosion of ethnic and religious conflicts in the early and mid-1990s have proved tragically ineffective. Non-governmental organizations are emerging ...as the principal vehicle for intervention in humanitarian crises. The efforts of defense contractors in the handling of such crises is also discussed.
For 28 years, Mobutu Sese Seko has carefully and thoughtfully refined his system for transforming the public resources of Zaïre into private wealth, while using bribery, coercion and violence to ...thwart all movements for change. The consequences of his system, commonly known as `kleptocracy' or government by theft, are well known: immiseration of the people; destruction of the nation's infrastructure; enrichment of Mobutu and his collaborators; the transformation of Zaïre into the prime staging ground for foreign intervention against other African nations. This article will focus neither on the consequences of kleptocracy nor the growing opposition which, for the past three years, has aggressively but so far unsuccessfully challenged Mobutu's rule. It will instead examine questions of causation and culpability. It will identify some of the architects, beneficiaries and allies of kleptocracy; analyse the methods used for misdirecting Zaïre's wealth, and catalogue the benefits Mobutu, his domestic associates and his external sponsors drew from this system. It will also discuss the legal mechanisms a post-Mobutu government might use to recapture stolen assets or set aside debts arising from loans whose proceeds were stolen. Reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd.
The UN Conference on Environment and Development, the Earth Summit, was held in Jun 1992 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Leaders from all over the world met to discuss measures to protect the environment, ...but the Bush Administration continues to drag its feet on environmental issues.
Zaire Pres Mobutu Sese Seko has promised to allow the reconvening of a national conference on political reforms. Mobutu's soldiers, however, broke up a banned, church-led, pro-democracy protest in ...Kinshasa Zaire. The Catholic Church sees the importance of the conference, and US congressman are calling for the dismissal of Mobutu.
