Human rights reports and publications

On this page, you will find all the public reports published by the UN Joint Human Rights Office or the OHCHR.

For more reports on human rights in Democratic Republic of Congo produced by other UN Charter-based bodies and UN Treaty bodies, consult the OHCHR- Democratic Republic of Congo Web page.

Report on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo before, during and after the elections of December 2018*

This report is presented pursuant to resolution 39/20 of the Human Rights Council, which requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit a report on the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo before, during and after the elections of D

23 Mar 2019

UN expert urges DRC to restore internet services

GENEVA (7 January 2019) - A United Nations expert has called on the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to restore internet services in the country.

08 Jan 2019

Principales tendances des violations des droits de l’homme en octobre 2017

Durant le mois d’octobre 2017, le BCNUDH a documenté 704 violations des droits de l’homme sur l’ensemble du territoire de la RDC, soit une nouvelle augmentation par rapport au mois précédent, au cours duquel une forte hausse avait déjà été enregistrée (644 violations, contre 441 au mois d’août).

21 Nov 2017

Principales tendances des violations des droits de l’homme en septembre 2017

Durant le mois de septembre 2017, le BCNUDH a documenté 644 violations des droits de l’homme sur l’ensemble du territoire de la RDC, soit une augmentation de 46% par rapport au mois d’août 2017, au cours duquel 441 violations avaient été documentées.

24 Oct 2017

Women and their children looking for valuables in a trash dump in Kinshasa. Photo Radio Okapi /John Bompengo

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty – Tuesday 17 October 2017: World is ignoring human rights of poor despite disproportionate abuses – UN expert

GENEVA (16 October 2017) – The world’s poor are at disproportionate risk of torture, arrest, early death and domestic violence, but their civil and political rights are being airbrushed out of the picture, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston has warned in a hard-hitting sta

16 Oct 2017

United Nations International Day of Older Persons : Younger generations must act now to stamp out human rights denials in old age – UN expert

GENEVA (29 September 2017) – The UN Independent Expert on older people’s rights, Rosa Kornfeld-Matte, is marking the International day of Older Persons (1 October) by urging those in power today to provide decent futures for older people – noting that they themselves will be affected by the i

29 Sep 2017

Georgette Gagnon, Directrice de la Division de la coopération technique et des opérations de terrain du Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies aux droits de l'Homme. Photo UN

Opening remarks at a press conference in Goma, DRC by UN Human Rights Office Field Operations Director Georgette Gagnon

25 August 2017

Good morning and thank you for joining us today.

25 Aug 2017

Principales tendances des violations des droits de l'homme en juillet 2017

Durant le mois de juillet 2017, le BCNUDH a documenté 398 violations des droits de l’homme sur tout le territoire de la RDC, ce qui représente une baisse de 19% par rapport au mois de juin 2017, au cours duquel 490 violations avaient été documentées.

15 Aug 2017

DRC: Victims’ harrowing accounts indicate Government complicity in ethnic-based massacres in Kasai – UN report

GENEVA (4 August 2017) – Violence in the Kasai provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo appears to be taking on an increasing and disturbing ethnic dimension, a report by the UN Human Rights Office has warned.

05 Aug 2017

DRC: Zeid appoints team of international experts on the Kasais

GENEVA (26 July 2017) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday announced the appointment of Bacre Ndiaye (Senegal), Luc Côté (Canada) and Fatimata M’Baye (Mauritania) as international experts on the situation in the Kasai regions of the Democrati

26 Jul 2017