{"id":14523,"date":"2016-03-18T09:10:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishworldwatch.org\/?p=13574"},"modified":"2016-03-18T09:10:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:10:04","slug":"students-call-on-secretary-kerry-to-address-rights-abuses-in-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/students-call-on-secretary-kerry-to-address-rights-abuses-in-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Call on Secretary Kerry to Address Rights Abuses in DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty five student leaders from universities across the United States call on Secretary Kerry to send a clear message to President Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that he cannot extend his time in office.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jww.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Student-Letter-to-Kerry_DRC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a letter sent to the Secretary of State<\/a>, these student leaders from Jewish World Watch, the Enough Project&#8217;s Conflict-Free Campus Initiative, and STAND, expressed their\u00a0solidarity with the peaceful activists protesting\u00a0President Kabila&#8217;s attempt to cling to power. The students\u00a0drew particular attention to the ongoing crackdowns \u00a0and arrests against Congolese youth activists.<\/p>\n<p>The letter urged Secretary Kerry to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Employ targeted sanctions on President Kabila\u2019s inner circle, including travel bans and asset freezes.<\/li>\n<li>Support independent investigations into human rights violations and high-level corruption by local and international civil society groups and justice officials.<\/li>\n<li>Make a strong public statement urging the release of political prisoners, including youth activists from LUCHA and Filimbi, such as Jean-Marie Kalonji, Juvin Kombi, and Pascal Byumanine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jww.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Student-Letter-to-Kerry_DRC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the letter in its entirety.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty five student leaders from universities across the United States call on Secretary Kerry to send a clear message to President Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that he cannot extend his time in office.\u00a0In a letter sent to the Secretary of State, these student leaders from Jewish World Watch, the Enough&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,131,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-drc","category-news-features","category-176","category-131","category-188","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}