David Gressly, Deputy Special Representative for the Rule of Law and Acting Head of Mission, and Jose Maria Aranaz, Representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, commend the Government of the DRC for its accession to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol Kinshasa 19 October 2015 – “Persons with disabilities are full human beings and the specific rights recognized to them require particular…
Intensified sensitization campaigns within the framework of MONUSCO DDRRR coupled with the sensitization of the PNC, FARDC and civil society organizations, in addition to the FARDC military actions against armed groups continue to bear fruits, namely in the territory of Shabunda. On 17 September 2015, the chief of Raia Mutomboki, Ms. Cynthia, the former spouse of the ex-leader Paul Ngumbi Wangozi, nicknamed Sisawa, member of the same group…
At the initiative of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office, a workshop on capacity-building for the civil society organizations in the area of the protection for the victims and witnesses of sexual violence was held on Wednesday 7 October 2015 at the headquarters of MONUSCO in Dungu. About 20 human rights activists, representatives of human right NGOs, civil society organizations, members of the “Commission Diocésaine Justice et Paix”…
Bunia, 1st October 2015: MONUSCO, through its child protection section, organized on 30 September an extraordinary meeting of the joint technical working group DRC Government/United Nations with a view to exploring the means and ways to withdraw child soldiers from armed forces and groups in Ituri. The meeting helped participants to come up with a better approach based on eight priority activities to be implemented by the working group between…
Uvira, 8 October 2015 – MONUSCO Joint Human Rights Office in Uvira organized on Wednesday 7 October 2015, a training for seventeen Gender focal points and members of different humanitarian sub-clusters in the Territory of Uvira, South-Kivu. The training was held in OCHA’s meeting hall and focused on the theme: Gender, women’s rights protection in humanitarian interventions . The training session was designed for member Organizations of the Gender…
Uvira, 8 October 2015 – Within the framework of the commemoration of the International Day of Peace on 21 September of each year, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in DRC in Uvira, organized on Thursday 8 October 2015, a public information session for students of the “Institut Aksanti” and “Institut des Techniques Médicales.” More than 100 participants took part in this commemoration activity which occurred in the compound of the…
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Maman S. Sidikou of Niger as his Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). Mr. Sidikou succeeds Martin Kobler of Germany. The Secretary-General is grateful for Mr. Kobler’s important contribution and dedicated service for the past…
Uvira, 30 September 2015 – Local authorities in Uvira attended a capacity-building seminar on decentralization and local governance held by the Civil Affairs section of MONUSCO from 24 to 26 September. Besides administrative authorities such as such as Chiefs of Chiefdoms and of Groupings, the 35 seminar participants included also civil servants and representatives from civil society, political parties and the private sector. The three-day…
At the initiative of the civil society in Dungu and with the technical and logistic support of MONUSCO Civil Affairs Section, a workshop on the capitalization of the civil society’s impact in Dungu as part of the stabilization process was held on Tuesday 30 September 2015 in the conference hall of MONUSCO Dungu. Dungu, 30 th December 2015 - Roughly 55 participants including the territorial Administrator and his aids, the district officials of…
FLAVIA PANSIERI, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, introducing a report and a study on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, said that the Democratic Republic of the Congo remained torn by conflicts on many levels, which were intertwined, complex, and spurred by the country’s richness in natural resources. The Democratic Republic of the Congo had experienced some of the bloodiest conflicts since the Second World War, spanning over…