Human rights reports and publications
Bandundu town, 8 July 2011 – The voters' registration exercise which kicked off on April 2 in Bandundu province is going well, according to estimates by the Independent Nation Electoral Commission (INEC). Nearly everybody in…
Uvira, 8 July 2011 – The United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) is seriously concerned by the living conditions of children detained for minor offences at the Central prison of…
Mbandaka, 6 July 2011 – As elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) draw nearer, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) continues to contribute various forms of assistance to the Government…
Kinshasa, 11 July 2011 - The first ever medal parade of the Corrections Advisory Unit of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) was held on 8 July 2011 in Kinshasa…
Goma, 6 July 2011 - The area of Lukweti/Mutongo, that lies between Masisi and Walikale territories, in Nord Kivu province, has in recent times been a battlefield for different armed groups. These battles, the root causes of…
Bukavu, 4 July 2011 – When 17 staff members of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), the World Food Programme (WFP)…
Kinshasa, 10 July 2011: The United Nations in the DRC expresses its solidarity with the Congolese Government and people after the crash on Friday 8 July of a passenger airliner at Kisangani airport. In this regard, the United…
Kinshasa, 7 July 2011 - As they rose from their three-day meeting in Kinshasa today, Heads of Offices of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) will be…
Investigation into mass rapes and other human rights violations in Walikale reveals prevailing lack of accountability Kinshasa/Geneva, 6 July 2011: A UN investigation into serious human rights violations perpetrated in…
Kinshasa, 4 July 2011 - Four years on, exactly since July 2007, the Civil Affairs Section of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) and its partners, including the European…
Goma, 23 June 2011 – The Indian Battalion of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) inaugurated a community centre along with a kindergarten block in Kurumba, a small towm…
Beni, 25 June 2011 – The United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) lent its support to the High Court of Goma to set up a mobile court in Kasindi, a town in Nord-Kivu province, at the…