Kinshasa, 13 December 2010 - Several Congolese journalists were awarded prizes for best reporting on human rights issues and sexual violence in a ceremony organized on 10 December 2010 by the Canadian NGO, Journalists for Human Rights (JHR), and the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO). The ceremony took place on the International Human Rights Day, marking the 62nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights. The prize…
Bukavu, 14 December 2010 – The police unit of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) and the Provincial Division of Mines have jointly trained 40 Congolese National Police officers (PNC), drawn from the two Kivus, in securing minerals trade centres. The three-week training started on November 22. The officers, 24 from North and 16 from South Kivu, were trained at the Jules Moke Training Centre in Bukavu on capacity…
Mbandaka, 5 December 2010 – As the world celebrated International Volunteer Day on 5 December, United Nations Volunteers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Equateur province visited and shared a meal with children from a Catholic run orphanage in Bamanya village, some ten kilometers from Equateur's capital, Mbandaka. During their visit the volunteers donated food and other non food items to the orphanage. The non food items included soap…
Kisangani, 7 December 2010 – Roger Meece, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) today visited the Kapalata training center (8 km north of Kisangani, Eastern province) where about 500 newly recruited members of the Congolese National Police are being trained. Officially launched on 20 September 2010, the six-month basic training course for elements of the…
Kisangani, 7 December 2010 – Roger Meece, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) today visited the Kapalata training center (8 km north of Kisangani, Eastern province) where about 500 newly recruited members of the Congolese National Police are being trained. Officially launched on 20 September 2010, the six-month basic training course for elements of the…
Kisangani, 7 December 2010 – Roger Meece, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) today visited the Kapalata training center (8 km north of Kisangani, Eastern province) where about 500 newly recruited members of the Congolese National Police are being trained. Officially launched on 20 September 2010, the project a six-month basic training course for elements of…
Kapalata, 6 December 2010 – A number of young female recruits with the Congolese National Police (PNC) demonstrate eagerness to increase their operational capacity as they participate in training sessions in Kapalata. Kapalata, a town just outside Kisangani, the capital of Congo's Oriental Province, is where the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), is training Congolese National Police (PNC). The…
Kinshasa, 25 November 2010 - On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Gender office of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) presented the results of nationwide pilot survey of the socioeconomic impacts of the artisanal exploitation of natural resources on Congolese women and girls. The aim of the survey was to collect the necessary data to…
Kinshasa, 23 November 2010 -An operation code named "Protection Shield" has been launched by MONUSCO in the Minembwe, Fizi and Uvira areas in South Kivu Province. The operation is informed by the increased activities of a number of armed groups, including the FRF and FDLR which have been harassing the local population, humanitarian organizations and had even clashed with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, FARDC. "Protection…
Kinshasa, 21 November 2010 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mr. Roger Meece, wound up a three-day working visit to Katanga province on Saturday 20 November. It was Mr. Meece's first visit to the province since assuming office as head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) last July. The trip took him to Lubumbashi, Kalemie and Bandera. "For me, this visit is…