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Eastern Congo: Stephen Harper

Human Rights Record Dept: Video: PM blasts Congo s human rights record, according to Globe and Mail. He might, for example, have acknowledged that his government had already funded a campaign against sexual violence against women in eastern Congo that had received a negative assessment by his own government. The campaign was judged to have been poorly thought out and failed to achieve its objectives. This internal evaluation was revealed in The by Geoffrey York, the Africa correspondent, who also interviewed Congolese civil society activists and found them to be equally critical of the Canadian project. The Harper government, it appears, paid little attention to either its own assessment or what real Congolese in eastern Congo thought and video: Stephen Harper on summit challenges in Congo video These comments were both reasonable and trite. They re exactly what all western governments say repeatedly about the Congo, yet little changes. There are far more important things he might have said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.