GENEVA/KINSHASA (20 March 2012) – A UN report released Tuesday details serious human rights violations, including killings, disappearances and arbitrary detention, committed in Kinshasa by Congolese and security forces in the context of the 2011 presidential and legislative elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The report, based on investigations conducted by the UN Joint Human Rights Office** in the DRC, documents the killing…
Kinshasa, 09 January 2012: MONUSCO strongly condemns the attacks on civilians by armed groups in several remote villages in Shabunda territory of South Kivu Province. During 1 and 4 January 2012, MONUSCO received reports that about 45 civilians were killed and at least 50 were injured by the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR) in two attacks. Population would have been displaced as a result of these attacks. On 5 January, MONUSCO…
Bukavu, 14 March 2012 – New collaborative methods on conflicts management were recently developed by the Office of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) and the governor of Sud-Kivu. The new approach consists of classifying conflicts based on whether they are related to land issues, customary power, or the struggle for natural resources. Through its Civil Affairs Section, MONUSCO recently reviewed…
Mbuji-Mayi, 25 February 2012 - Some 70 youths, including 19 girls, turned up at a workshop on child protection. The training course was organized in Mbuji-Mayi by the regional Human Rights section of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) on 23 February. The participant were from the Consultation Framework for Peaceful Elections (Cadre de consultation pour des élections apaisées), which comprises…
Mbandaka, 21 February 2012 – Radio Okapi, the radio of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), held in Mbandaka from 15 to 20 February, a refresher training workshop for community radio journalists of Equateur province. The NGO Fondation Hirondelle, Radio Okapi's technical partner, helped to set up the training program. For nearly a week, trainers focused on radio news writing and reporting…
Matadi, 22 February 2012 – On 22 and 23 February, the Civil Affairs Office of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) organized a workshop on local conflicts management. During these two days, MONUSCO officials, with representatives from the Ministries of Interior, Plan, Justice and Agriculture, as well as members of the civil society scrutinized the different conflicts of the…
Kisangani, 24 February 2012 – Little Bénédicte is now safe and sound. Bénédicte is the name of a little girl from Kisangani, capital of Province Orientale, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While on a field visit to the Kisangani nutrition centre, a team of the Office of Public Information of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) bumped into her. She had been suffering for…
Goma, 1 March 2012 – The Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ms. Leila Zerrougui, arrived in Goma, capital of Nord Kivu province on Thursday, 1st March for a working visit to assess the security and human rights situation in the region. Ms Zerrougui's four-day visit took her successively to Kaniro, Kimua, Rwindi (Walikale territory), Kirumba, Mpati (Rutshuru…
Goma, 28 February 2012 – A fire erupted on 28 February at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ntoto, a village located about 50 km west of Walikale, in eastern Nord Kivu province. The makeshift IDP camp, which lies close to a peacekeeper base of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), was virtually destroyed by the blaze stoked by the cool winds typical of this highland region in the…
Mbuji-Mayi, 14 February 2012 – The Office of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) jointly organised with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and National HIV Multi-Sector Programme (PNMLS) an awareness Day for students of a Medical Technical College (ISTM in French acronym) in Mbuji Mayi on 8 February 2012. This is to ensure the continuation of previous activity launched during the commemoration…