Goma, 23 March 2013 – As part of the joint project on Sexual Assault Prevention and Response in the Nord and Sud Kivu provinces faced with countless cases of human rights violations, mainly sexual violence, the Joint Human Rights Office (BCNUDH) of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) assists the victims by facilitating access to justice and organizing capacity-building activities for…
Kananga, 23 March 2013 – Public awareness campaign for 40 media professionals including 30 women in Kananga, Kasai Occidental province, ended on Friday 22 March 2013. The theme of the workshop was: "Gender, women's participation to elections, peace consolidation and development in Kasaï Occidental" The forum was initiated by the public information section of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
Uvira, 22 March 2013 – To familiarize civilian populations with the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), the Mission's Public Information Division in Uvira, Sud-Kivu, organized public awareness campaign for 10 secondary schools and universities in the Ruzizi town and plane. Amid plays and games, pupils and students were given responses to their different concerns on the…
Goma, 22 March 2013 – The food products were handed in a ceremony held on 21 March 2013 at the district commissioner's office of the town of Kitchanga, attended by the representative of the provincial commissioner for the Congolese National Police Force (PNC) in Nord-Kivu, the chief of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) as well as all the Kitchanga-posted PNC members. The assistance…
Kisangani, 19 March 2013 - Jacques Kyassa Lofimbo, local staff working for the security department of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) in Kisangani, is the winner of the United Nations contest organized in December 2012 around the theme: "the needs for training within the UN peacekeeping missions over the next two years". A special prize I-POD phone was sent him by the United…
Goma, 20 March 2013 – On 18 March, as part of the women's month activities, the Gender and Public Information divisions of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), in collaboration with the students' committee of the "Université Libre" in Goma (ULPGL), organized a debate around the theme "Students in the face of the various forms of violence at the university environment". The purpose of…
Goma, 23 March 2013 – As part of the joint project on Sexual Assault Prevention and Response in the Nord and Sud Kivu provinces faced with countless cases of human rights violations, mainly sexual violence, the Joint Human Rights Office (BCNUDH) of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) assists the victims by facilitating access to justice and organizing capacity-building activities for…
Kisangani, 23 March 2013 – The Gender section of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) organized on 14 March an awareness session on the promotion of women's rights in Kisangani, province Orientale. More than fifty female members of a Widow's Association in Lubunga known as (AMAVEL) were called upon to stand up for their rights and energetically fight all forms of violence against…
Kisangani, 20 March 2013 – The office of the prosecutor of the high court of Kisangani held two-day reflections, 11 - 12 March 2013, to harmonize the different interventions of the actors involved in the fight against sexual violence in province Orientale. About fifty participants participated in the initiative backed by the Gender and Justice Support Sections of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of…