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MONUSCO organizes a weekly press conference every Wednesday that serves as a communication space for the Mission and all UN agencies in DR Congo. The press conference is broadcast live on Radio Okapi and on MONUSCO's web platforms.
contacts :
Spokesman:
Ndeye Khady Lo - Tel: +243 997068227
Media Relations:
Adele Lukoki - Tel: +243 81 89 077 06
- International Women's Day
Bukavu: Women’s or Political Parties’ Day?
Bukavu, 8 March 2011 – International Women's Day was celebrated amidst confusion in Bukavu, the provincial capital of South Kivu. The event was marked by a big march attended by several women displaying banners and symbols of their political parties. As they march past, they chanted party slogans…
- International Women's Day
Lubumbashi: 2 Groups of Women Celebrate 8 March but, Separately
Lubumbashi, 8 March 2011 – International Women's Day was celebrated throughout Katanga province, but with more fervor in the capital Lubumbashi, where a three-hour parade drew women from all walks of life. At the end of the parade, the Provincial Minister for Gender, Women and Children appealed to…
- International Women's Day
The Women of Tchopo District Sensitized on Gender Issues
Kisangani, 3 mars 2011 – Just days before the International Women's Day celebrations on March 8, the UN Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) organized an awareness campaign for women on gender issues in the Tshopo district of Kisangani, Oriental Province. Under the guidance of MONUSCO…
- International Women's Day
International Women’s Day Celebrated with Fanfare in Kinshasa
Kinshasa, 9 March 2011 – Women of the Democratic Republic of Congo joined their counterparts the world over to celebrate the first 100 years of the International Women's Day on March 8. This year's theme was: "Equal access to education, training, science and technology for all men and women as well…
- Human Rights
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reports on the human rights situation in the DRC - 2012
As with the previous report to the Human Rights Council, presented at the sixteenth session in March 2011 (A/HRC/16/27), this report looks at a number of past recommendations made by the High Commissioner and several human rights mechanisms and assesses the response of the Congolese Government. The…
- Human Rights
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reports on the human rights situation in the DRC - 2011
As with the previous report to the Human Rights Council, presented at the thirteenth session in March 2010 (A/HRC/13/64), this report looks at a number of past recommendations made by the High Commissioner and several human rights mechanisms. In addition, it assesses the response of the Congolese…
Report on human rights and fundamental freedoms during the pre-electoral period in the DRC
This report reveals a worrying number of human rights violations during the pre-electoral period in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and warns that such incidents could endanger the democratic process and lead to post-electoral violence as well. Between 1 November 2010 and 30 September 2011…
- Human Rights
Final report of mass rapes and other human rights violations in Walikale territory (July 2011)
This report presents the findings of the investigations undertaken by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) into the mass rapes and other human rights violations committed during the attacks on 13 villages along the Kibu-Mpofi axis in Walikale territory, North Kivu, between 30 July…
- Human Rights
Report of mass rapes and other human rights violations in Masisi Territory (July 2011)
This report by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) addresses the human rights violations committed against civilians in the villages of Bushani and Kalambahiro in Masisi territory, North Kivu, on 31 December 2010 and 1 January 2011. On the basis of the investigations undertaken…
- Human Rights
Preliminary report of mass rapes and other human rights violations in Walikale territory (Sep. 2010)
From 30 July to 2 August 2010, a coalition of forces of the Mayi Mayi Cheka and the Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR) as well as forces under Colonel Emmanuel Nsengiyumva, a total of at least 200 fighters, systematically attacked civilians in 13 villages along the Kibua-Mpofi road…
- Human Rights
Joint report of MONUC, ONUB and OHCHR into the Gatumba massacre (2004)
On the night of 13 August 2004, a transit centre assisted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and housing Congolese refugees and Burundian returnees at Gatumba, Bujumbura Rural Province, Burundi, was brutally attacked by a large group of armed individuals. A…
Human rights violations during DRC general elections
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…