The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a source and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically conditions of forced labor and forced prostitution. The majority of this trafficking is internal, and much of it is perpetrated by armed groups and government forces outside government control within the country's unstable eastern provinces.

Here is an old article that tells very well the kind of things that happened in the DR Congo while the world chose to ignore them:

9 June 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named Roger A. Meece, a United States national with over three decades of international experience, including in a number of African nations, as the top United Nations envoy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

A year ago, The Lord started me on a journey of faith when I gave up everything to start a stateside work for Mwangaza International. Even though the work had been going on in Congo for five years, we needed to launch it here in the US. I had nothing but my faith and my friends to keep this dream going.

I just read this article by Mark Doyle of BBC news, it says a lot about the health situation in DRC:

On the day I visited the hospital a car accident victim was rushed in, his head pouring with blood.
"I don't have any bandages," Dr Kabamba said, "my cupboard is bare. We will have to wait for a family member to come here with cash before we treat him."

Activist and author, John Prendergast, wrote an article about DRC back in August, and it just came to our attention today. The article looks at the way our purchases in the West fund illegal trading of natural resources in places like Congo. You can check it out here.