BICC publishes first Fatal Transactions newsletter Germany

The Bonn International Center for Conversion is glad to present the first German Fatal Transactions Newsletter (November 2007).

The newsletter contains among others the following contributions:
-Rubies from Burma finanance dictatorial regime. (Rot wie Blut - Rubine aus Burma finanzieren diktatorisches Regime)
-Kimberley Process Yearly Plenary in Brussels (Jährliche Plenarversammlung des Kimberley-Prozesses in Brüssel)
- New news from Sierra Leone (Journalistenreise nach Sierra Leone).
Please feel free to distribute the newsletter to your German reading contacts. If you want to sign up to the newsletter please send an email to bicc@bicc.de
BICC researches the link between commercially exploitable resources and the outbreak and continuation of armed conflicts in Africa. From 2007 onwards BICC is the German focal point of “Fatal Transactions” and raises specific issues around resource exploitation and conflict with the German public, companies, academics and policymakers.

For more information on the German Fatal Transactions campaign visit http://www.bicc.de/fataltransactions/
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