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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

Maman Sambo Sidikou, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), addresses the Security Council. UN Photo/Cia Pak

Despite progress on voter registration, DR Congo faces challenges on election timeline – UN envoy

11 October 2017 – The notion that elections would most probably not be held before the end of 2017 has regrettably led to the re-emergence of a climate of political uncertainty and tensions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a United Nations envoy for that country tol

12 Oct 2017

Security and humanitarian situation deteriorating amidst political uncertainty in Democratic Republic of Congo

The Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the DR Congo - Monusco Maman S. Sidikou, briefed the UN Security Council this morning on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

11 Oct 2017

Briefing by SRSG Maman Sidikou to the UN Security Council – Open Session

New York, 11 October 2017

Mr President,Distinguished Members of the Council,

11 Oct 2017

Raising Awareness on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the North Kivu Community

The MONUSCO Conduct and Discipline Team (CDT) has organized a series of awareness-raising activities in the communities of North Kivu on the dangers of sexual abuse and exploitation by MONUSCO and UN staff in general.

11 Oct 2017

MONUSCO repels deadly attack by suspected ADF in Mamundioma; reinforcements deployed to secure the location

KINSHASA, October 9, 2017 – In the early hours of Monday morning, MONUSCO repelled an attack by suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) on a MONUSCO position in Mamundioma, North Kivu province, during which the Mission sustained casualties.

09 Oct 2017

Goma - DDRRR Community Violence Reduction (CVR) Workshop

MONUSCO North Kivu DDRRR Section has reported that at least 2,000 people, including 462 demobilized and 370 vulnerable women, have already been direct beneficiaries of the first phase of the Community Violence Reduction program.

09 Oct 2017

MONUSCO raises awareness of roads users on road signs

Kalemie – 5th October 2017 – After donating 83 road signs to Kalemie officials and Congolese National Police, the Mission organized a series of awareness sessions on the road signs for the different categories of roads users.

06 Oct 2017

Radio Okapi reopens its broadcasting station in Kananga

Kananga – 2 October 2017: Radio Okapi has resumed broadcasting locally in the Kasaï-Central province from Monday through Friday; the populations of the Kasaï-Central province can now listen to local news and programs in Tshiluba and French on the 93.0 Modular Frequency.

03 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

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