DRC natural resources press review of Tuesday, September 17, 2013

International NGOs Southern Africa Resources Watch ( SARW ) yesterday released Monday, September 16 during a press conference held in Kinshasa , a report on the living conditions of children in four provinces , namely Maniema , North Kivu , South Kivu and Province Oreintale . This report is entitled " The cost of Congolese gold." Echoing this meeting , the Potentiel paper highlights  that artisanal gold mining in some provinces of the DRC does not rhyme very often with the lives of people who use it . According to a report by the NGO Southern Africa Resources Watch ( SARW ) , more than 100,000 people working in this area live in extreme poverty.On the same issue , the Phare newspaper speaks of gold that divides the families of the miners ... and quoting George Bokundu , Office of SARW , the newspaper noted that " this report came to the conclusion that cost of Congolese gold is characterized by poverty , abuse and the breakdown of family and community structures . " Indeed, he has supported , it is especially women and children who suffer from violence, exploitation , neglect and abuse on a daily basis .The same media reports that it is to a new EU legislation to stop the trade in conflict minerals and indicates that a coalition of 59 non-governmental organizations called on the European Commission to adopt a stricter legislation to prevent European companies to fuel conflict and human rights violations by buying natural resources such as tin , gold and diamonds. The call is a bill to be published by the Commission by the end of 2013 upstream .On the subject of forests, the biweekly Maximum announces that teams of experts from the Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism stay on mission in eight provinces of the country, within the framework of provincial workshops pre - validation of the document " national Environment Programme , Forest , Water and Biodiversity ( PNEFEB ) , second generation."In the same order, returning at the end of the workshop on illegal logging and illegal timber trade , species of fauna and flora , the Tempête des Tropiques daily  focuses on a recommendation that the ban on the licensing of cutting timber in the semi-industrial category as , say participants , not legally recognized and maintaining unfair competition vis-à -vis the operators working in the formal setting.On another issue, the livestock , Radio Okapi reported that the Minister of Agriculture , Vahamwiti Chrysostom , in Bunia since Sunday , when it will launch today , Tuesday, September 17 , the vaccination of cattle against the contagious pneumonia and died FMD in six provinces of the DRC. Nothing in the Kivus and Orientale Province , more than a million cattle are targeted , half grazes in Ituri.