“Congo is now total horror story, for years.” This is what Noam Chomsky, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, said after the murder of Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the DRC, on January the 17th 1961. Unfortunately, he saw right. Since a few decades now, it has been widely observed that the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Central African developing country and former Belgian colony, has been the stage of great instability; and notably massive human trafficking, both ingoing and outgoing, for forced prostitution but also forced labor. Children are often used by traffickers in the DRC. The human trafficking is mainly internal to the DRC and controlled by armed groups and government forces in the Eastern
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Thus, solving it would be a reference as well as an incentive for other countries to deal with it. It could also expand Child Protection and the respect of Human Rights and Rights of the Child in the world, making it a better and fairer place for all human beings. In this paper, we will try to analyze the structural causes of this issue. We will then propose some brief policy recommendations that could solve it. Try not to have very short paragraphs like this. At first, we will focus on the colonial legacies of the country, which have left it weakened since the 1990s, allowing instability and violations of Human Rights to develop. We will then see how the lack of government presence and intervention today is leading to instability in some parts of the country, which is why the exploitation of the child by armed groups and businessman is made possible. Finally, we will explain how globalization and the race for competitiveness are making producers of minerals dependent on cheap laborers like the child, who are an easy prey for …show more content…
Unfortunately, it faced a political crisis with the opposition between Prime Minister Lumumba and the chief of the army Joseph Mobutu, supported by the West. Lumumba was arrested on 17 January 1961 and executed, which led to temporary instability. Mobutu finally took power after a coup in 1965 and renamed the country Zaïre in 1971. Mobutu’s Zaïre, supported by the US and Belgium, was characterized by high corruption and repression, until the dictator had to flee the country in 1997 because of the Civil War, making the “free” DRC to be restored. We can thus say that the country was colonized, although unofficially, until
Thus, solving it would be a reference as well as an incentive for other countries to deal with it. It could also expand Child Protection and the respect of Human Rights and Rights of the Child in the world, making it a better and fairer place for all human beings. In this paper, we will try to analyze the structural causes of this issue. We will then propose some brief policy recommendations that could solve it. Try not to have very short paragraphs like this. At first, we will focus on the colonial legacies of the country, which have left it weakened since the 1990s, allowing instability and violations of Human Rights to develop. We will then see how the lack of government presence and intervention today is leading to instability in some parts of the country, which is why the exploitation of the child by armed groups and businessman is made possible. Finally, we will explain how globalization and the race for competitiveness are making producers of minerals dependent on cheap laborers like the child, who are an easy prey for …show more content…
Unfortunately, it faced a political crisis with the opposition between Prime Minister Lumumba and the chief of the army Joseph Mobutu, supported by the West. Lumumba was arrested on 17 January 1961 and executed, which led to temporary instability. Mobutu finally took power after a coup in 1965 and renamed the country Zaïre in 1971. Mobutu’s Zaïre, supported by the US and Belgium, was characterized by high corruption and repression, until the dictator had to flee the country in 1997 because of the Civil War, making the “free” DRC to be restored. We can thus say that the country was colonized, although unofficially, until