This report of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) presents an analysis of the trends in sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from January 2010 until December 2013. It describes progress made by Congolese authorities in prosecuting crimes of sexual violence, and identifies obstacles in the fight against impunity for such crimes. It also makes recommendations to overcome such obstacles. The period between…
Bukavu, South-Kivu, 14 May 2014 – MONUSCO/South Kivu organized a session on DDR (Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration) process and mineral traceability for provincial parliamentarians and ministries. Similar exercise was conducted on Thursday 8 May in the same Region. The session helped members of both provincial institutions have the same understanding of the national commitments made by the DR Congo to the tools such as Peace, Security…
Bukavu, South-Kivu, 14 May 2014 – MONUSCO/South Kivu organized a session on DDR (Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration) process and mineral traceability for provincial parliamentarians and ministries. Similar exercise was conducted on Thursday 8 May in the same Region. The session helped members of both provincial institutions have the same understanding of the national commitments made by the DR Congo to the tools such as Peace, Security…
Mbandaka, 13 May 2014 – Offering better working conditions to journalists, need for journalists to be independent in carrying out their profession in keeping with Media professional standards were the key substance of the message delivered on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day especially marked on 13 May in Equateur province, rather than 3 May as usual. The whole of the Media houses and Regulation Bodies attended the ceremony presided…
Mbandaka, 12 May 2014 – Civil Society Associations in Equateur province convened a workshop between 9 and 10 May 2014 in Mbandaka during which they set up a Framework for Consultations and Dialogue with a view to enhancing cohesion among them and to enable them to speak with one voice. Organized by the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) and the International Non-Government Organization Christian AIDwith…
Uvira, 08 May 14 – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) in Uvira donated two vehicles Toyota Land cruiser made to Uvira territorial Administration and a local hospital, in a ceremony attended by MONUSCO/Uvira chief and the territorial administrator Mr. Samuel Lunganga Lenga. The donation is the materialization of a promise made by the Director of MONUSCO administration, Mr. Guy Siri…
South-Kivu, 09 May 2014 - MONUSCO organized between 23rd April - 07 May 2014, in Bukavu, a training for the officers of the 10th Military region of the DRC Armed Forces on new combat tactics, intelligence, information systems as well as on the role and function of the Military top management. For two weeks, the 30 officers of the 10th military region received training not only on smooth collaboration between military command and military justice…
Bukavu, 8 May 2014: Justice Provincial Division organized, in partnership with the NGO “Justice and Democracy”/RCN and MONUSCO, a workshop that brought together prisons warders in the South-Kivu province to facilitate exchange of experiences between senior prisons management, to reinforce the mechanisms for prison staff administrative and human resource management and to contribute to improving the work of the senior management of the prisons in…
For several days waves had been crashing on Goma shore, when on the evening of 5th May an Uruguayan naval patrol picked up weak signals from a passenger ferryboat probably in difficulty soon confirmed by the Unmanned Aerial Surveillance (UAS) team. The images sent by the UAV (drone) showed that a boat was in distress, about 6 kilometers away from Goma and its passengers, most of them without life jackets, were in the water. MONUSCO immediately…