Past Events
Natural Resource Exploitation and Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo
| Location: | OSI-Washington |
| Event Date: | September 15, 2006 |
The Washington office of the Open Society Institute
hosted a discussion of
natural resource exploitation and human rights
in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
followed by the opening of the photography exhibition
Moving Walls
11.
The panel included Carina Tertsakian, Global Witness Lead Campaigner on the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her work focuses on the links between the exploitation of natural resources, conflict, and corruption. She co-authored and carried out the field research for the Global Witness report "Digging in Corruption: Fraud, Abuse and Exploitation in Katanga’s Copper and Cobalt Mines."
Also participating was photographer Marcus Bleasdale, who has spent six years documenting the brutal conflict within the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bleasdale's work, which has been published widely in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States, appears in Moving Walls 11.
