Beni, 8 July 2013 - As part of the activities commemorating the entry into force of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHR) in Beni, in collaboration with local academic authorities, held a panel discussion with the participation of law students from the Semuliki Official University of Beni. Discussion topics included the mandate of the…
Kinshasa/Geneva 9 July 2013 – Two years after the enactment of the law criminalizing torture, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) welcomes progress in the fight against this scourge and the first convictions of state agents who have practiced or encouraged the use of torture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Since the enactment of the law on the criminalization of torture on 9 July 2011, a law which legally defines…
Kananga, 26 June 2013 – In Kananga, the provincial capital of Western Kasai, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture was celebrated on Wednesday, 26 June 2013, with a workshop for human rights activists organized by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office. The presentations were on the national and international legal instruments of protection against torture; the current situation on the use of torture and other degrading…
Beni, 5 July 2013 - In Beni, North Kivu province, Nepalese peacekeepers of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo ( MONUSCO), on 3 July 2013 handed over to the local authorities a completely renovated maternity ward at the General Reference Hospital in Oicha, a locality 30 km north of the town of Beni in North Kivu province. Most of the buildings of the General Hospital of Oicha date from 1935. Apart from a few rooms built in…
Uvira, 5 July 2013 – Sixty journalists from community radio stations belonging to the Network for Synergy of the Media Outlets of Uvira and Fizi territories attended a two-day training workshop from 14 to 15 June in the town of Uvira, South Kivu, by the Public Information Division of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( MONUSCO). The focus of the training was on the techniques of editorial meetings as…
Kananga, 4 July 2013 – A group of 40 journalists, including editors-in-chief and editors, from the different radio stations across Western Kasai province, received training from the Public Information Office of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO). The three-day training, 27 to 29 June 2013, was organized in Kananga, the provincial main town, on such aspects of journalistic reporting as writing news scripts, content…
Kinshasa, 3 July 2013 – Violence against women, especially rape, is a major concern for the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), more so because the mission's core mandate is to protect civilians in the country. Within the framework of that mandate, and under its strategy to combat gender-based violence, including sexual abuse, MONUSCO's Gender Unit held a "Gender and Media" training…
Kisangani, 27 June 2013 – Congolese women's involvement in the implementation of the Addis Ababa's Framework for peace, security and cooperation in the DR Congo and the Great Lakes Region as well as the resolutions 2098 and 1325 of the United Nations Security Council were at the heart of a debate held in Kisangani, Orientale province, on 27 June 2013. The meeting held at the French cultural center Alliance française under the auspices of MONUSCO…
Kinshasa, 26 June 2013 – In the Democratic Republic of Congo, as in the rest of the world, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture was celebrated on 26 June. The annual event was marked with a ceremony organized jointly in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) and the Government Ministry of Justice and Human Rights. The Congolese Government was represented at the ceremony by the…
Bukavu, 27 June 2013 - The South-Kivu Governor, Marcellin Cishambo, inaugurated on 26 June 2013, a quick impact project of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), aiming at bringing electricity to the prison of Kabare and the surrounding areas in Orientale Province. The ceremony was attended by the Chief of MONUSCO office in the South Kivu, Aliou Sene, as well as several provincial…