Consuming the Congo
Title | Consuming the Congo PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Eichstaedt |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2011-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1569769001 |
Describes the "conflict minerals" mined in the Congo amidst armed conflict and human rights abuses including gold, diamonds, coltan, tin, and tungsten used in cell phones, computers, and other electronics. Explores the slave labor, violence, and disease killing millions of Congolese mining these resources, and offers ways one can help.
The illegal exploitation of coltan in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Title | The illegal exploitation of coltan in the Democratic Republic of Congo PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Pages | 17 |
Release | 2014-07-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3656691738 |
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 2,0, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: "No blood on my mobile phone" - This slogan published by a Belgian human rights organization as part of a famous campaign gives a glimpse on what disadvantages the increasing digitalization and globalization has on our society.1 It refers to a material which is used in almost any device of our daily life. We are talking about coltan, one of the rarest and most sought commodities in the world. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) owes hereby one of the largest mineral deposits, but due to the illegal exploitation of natural resources it is at the same time one of the most affected countries.1 The DRC is rich in various minerals, but because of years of dictatorships and wars that lasted in Congo since the beginning of the so-called First Congo War in 1996, there was not only the death of up to an estimated 5.4 million people, but also the dissolving of ordered structures and the economic system.2 In the context of rival rebel groups, government militias as well as occupying forces from neighbouring countries like Rwanda and Uganda one can also find a number of foreign companies that take advantage from the lack of structure and use it for tracking economic interests. Over the last decades a web of corruption, exploitation and trafficking developed, through which it was possible for the beneficiaries of the conflict to achieve their profit.
If You Poison Us
Title | If You Poison Us PDF eBook |
Author | Peter H. Eichstaedt |
Publisher | Museum of NM Press/Red Crane Books |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
"The untold story of the Native Americans who were the patriotic but unwitting victims of America's quest for nuclear superiority during the Cold War." Stewart L. Udall, former Secretary of the Interior (from the back cover).
Eating Apes
Title | Eating Apes PDF eBook |
Author | Dale Peterson |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0520243323 |
Annotation As Jane Goodall never fails to mention, "bush meat is the greatest conservation crisis in my lifetime." This book documents in text and photographs how wild animals in the Congo Basin, particularly the Great Apes but also chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas, are slaughtered and used for human consumption.
Coltan
Title | Coltan PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Nest |
Publisher | Polity |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2011-04-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0745649319 |
In this book, Michael Nest unravels this complex story to offer a clear and compelling analysis of the relationship between coltan and violence in the Congo, and the battle between activists and corporations to reshape the global tantalum supply chain.
Crisis in the Congo
Title | Crisis in the Congo PDF eBook |
Author | F. Ngolet |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 2010-12-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230116256 |
This volume offers a comprehensive history and analysis of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the tumultuous period of 1997 - 2001. The author examines the most recent events in this turbulent region, offering a contemporary account that is both extensive and detailed.
The All-Consuming World
Title | The All-Consuming World PDF eBook |
Author | Cassandra Khaw |
Publisher | Erewhon Books |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2021-09-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1645660249 |
In Locus and British Fantasy Award nominee Cassandra Khaw’s first novel, a crew of diminished former criminals get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission. But the universe’s highly-evolved AI has its own opposing agenda... and will do whatever it takes to keep humans from ever controlling them again. In space, everything hungers. Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies during her dangerous career with the Dirty Dozen, the most storied crew of criminals in the galaxy before their untimely and gruesome demise. Decades later, she and her team of broken, diminished outlaws must get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission and to rescue a missing and much-changed comrade . . . but they’re not the only ones in pursuit of the secret at the heart of the planet Dimmuborgir. The highly evolved AI of the galaxy will do whatever it takes to keep humanity from regaining control. As Maya and her comrades spiral closer to uncovering the AIs’ vast conspiracy, this band of violent women—half-clone and half-machine—must battle both sapient ageships and their own traumas, in order to settle their affairs once and for all.