Human rights reports and publications
Even if there are very few cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Goma, the capital city of the North Kivu province, the fact remains that masks and barrier gestures are essential in order to prevent possible spread…
‘’ What we have seen and heard is just unacceptable." It was a visibly shocked David Gressly speaking on Friday April 17, 2020 from Bunia airport before flying to Goma, wrapping up a 24-hour visit to Ituri. Upon arriving the…
The torrential rains that fell on the city of Uvira, in the South Kivu province, from Thursday 16 to Friday 17 April 2020, caused floods with significant material damage and several deaths (about thirty reported to date). If…
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chief of MONUSCO, Leila Zerrougui, has today condemned the killings committed in the territory of Djugu, Ituri province, over the…
Since mid-March, the displaced populations in Kamango and Nobili, in the chiefdom of Watalinga, more or less 70 km north-east from Beni, have gradually started to return home. This return, which takes place in a context…
Djugu Territory is going through a very difficult situation. Attackers are looting civilian properties, killing innocent people, torching houses and shops, attacking defence and security forces, including MONUSCO peacekeepers…
Faced with increased acts of banditry in the town of Bunia and its surroundings, in the Ituri Province, MONUSCO police (UNPOL) are cautiously continuing their simple and security patrols. In this context characterized by the…
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) organized an awareness-raising session on March 12 to combat sexual exploitation and abuse perpetrated by United Nations personnel…
A series of human rights training courses have been organized since last February by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) for the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) in Beni, north-Kivu…
On February 28, following the tough MONUSCO-facilitated negotiations, DRC Government and the former armed group Force known as ‘’Resistance Patriotique de l’Ituri (FRPI)’’ have signed a peace deal ending decades of armed…
On 8 March, International Women’s Day, Major Samia Rehman from Pakistan shares her 8 favourite things about working as a UN peacekeeper. She serves as an operational planning officer with the UN Stabilization Mission in the…
After 12 months of good and loyal services in the cause of peace and women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Major Jarin Sultana from the Bangladeshi peacekeepers’ contingent serving within MONUSCO, has left the host…