{"id":26573,"date":"2009-06-02T12:24:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/06\/02\/rape-crisis-in-east-congo-tied\/"},"modified":"2009-06-02T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:24:23","slug":"rape-crisis-in-east-congo-tied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/rape-crisis-in-east-congo-tied\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape Crisis in East Congo Tied to Mining Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>-Activists concerned by this year&#8217;s escalation of sexual violence in eastern Congo are trying to turn up the heat on those benefitting&#8211;directly or indirectly&#8211;from illicit mineral extractions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Conflict minerals power our entire electronic industry,&#8221; John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, told U.S. senators at a May 13 hearing on sexual violence in eastern Congo and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>The Enough Project is a Washington-based organization campaigning against genocide and crimes against humanity, including rape in eastern Congo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensenews.org\/article.cfm\/dyn\/aid\/4027\">Women&#8217;s eNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-Activists concerned by this year&#8217;s escalation of sexual violence in eastern Congo are trying to turn up the heat on those benefitting&#8211;directly or indirectly&#8211;from illicit mineral extractions. &#8220;Conflict minerals power our entire electronic industry,&#8221; John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, told U.S. senators at a May 13 hearing on sexual violence in eastern Congo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/rape-crisis-in-east-congo-tied\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rape Crisis in East Congo Tied to Mining Activity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[49,4581,304],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6UB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}