During 2003–2007, Canada ranked between fourth- and seventh-highest in dollar value, among nations exporting worn clothing and other worn textiles, and in 2007 its global exports of this commodity were valued at US$187m.United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 2007. 2007 International Trade Statistics Yearbook, Volume II - Trade by Commodity, SITC group: "269 Worn clothing and other worn textile articles; rags", http://comtrade.un.org/pb/FileFetch.aspx?docID=2010&type=commodity%20pages (accessed March 30, 2011). Canada's used clothing exports to the DRC, US$9.7m. in 2007, represented 3.5% of Canada's global total, and 28.1% of DRC's estimated used clothing imports of US$34.5m. In 2001, humanitarian groups working in rebel-occupied areas of the DRC reported to a United Nations Panel of Experts of "women in some villages who have simply stopped taking their children to the health centres because they no longer possess simple items of clothing to preserve their dignity".United Nations Security Council. 2001. Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 12 April 2001, Paragraph 66, http://www.un.org/News/dh/latest/drcongo.htm (accessed March 31, 2011).
