For more information about the crisis in the Eastern Congo, read AP Peace Fellow Ned Meerdink's blog here: http://advocacynet.org/blogs/index.php?blog=142. Ned is working directly with Tunza Mazingira and other local NGOs in Uvira, South Kivu.
For more information about Ortega's record on women's rights, read a press release written by CEMUJER, a Salvadoran human rights organization (http://www.advocacynet.org/page/cemujerpr). In the letter, they detail Ortega's many actions to curtail women's rights in Nicaragua and his threats to female activists.