Goma, 13 November 2015 – This sentiment was expressed by MONUSCO Force Commander on the eve of his departure from the DRC and Goma, where he established the Force headquarters upon arriving in June 2013; attributing over thirty per cent of his citizenship to Brazil, his home land and the remaining thirty percent to Haiti, where he had served as commander of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), from January 2007 to April…
South-Kivu, 11 November 2015 – MONUSCO Gender Section in the South-Kivu province, in partnership with a Congolese female legal experts’ Association, organized on 11 November 2015, a round table on how to “assist a larger number of women candidates in the South-Kivu during the upcoming elections”; thirty (30) women candidates attended the workshop. Bringing different female actors to embark on the electoral process and come up with specific and…
Kalemie, 13 November - The United Nations Joint Human Right Office in Kalemie organized a capacity-building workshop on a forensic guide for dealing with sexual violence attended by twenty medical doctors in Tanganyika including 5 women. Financed by a British organization known as UKaid within the framework of a National Legal Assistance Program for the victims of sexual violence, the objective of the workshop was to empower participants to…
MONUSCO Public Information Office in Kisangani organized a conference-debate around the theme “ MONUSCO’s activities in Kisangani” held in the township of Makiso on Thursday 5 November 2015; in attendance were roughly 200 members of the NGO “Vision Internationale pour l’Encadrement des Activistes des Droits Humains” (VIEADH). The speakers respectively explained the activities carried out by the different UN Mission's units, especially those…
Beni, 18 October, 2015 – A five-day training workshop on HIV Peer Education has ended in the North Kivu Provincial town of Beni, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The training workshop, organized by the HIV/AIDS Section of MONUSCO in collaboration with the Military Training Cell took place from 13 to 17 October at the Nepalese Battalion (NEPBATT) Head Quarters. Participants at the workshop were drawn from the Nepalese, Malawian, and…
MONUSCO/Kisangani office commemorated UN Day on Saturday 24 October 2015 at “Alliance Française.” In attendance were the provincial Governor, Mr. Jean Bamanisa; provincial officials, Staff members of the specialized Agencies of the UN system. The UN Secretary-General’s message was read by the Chief of MONUSCO-Kisangani office. The provincial Governor, on his part, congratulated the UN for its multi-sector interventions in the city of Kisangani. A…
Bunia, 12.Oct.15: Ituri was endowed with a human rights and elections observatory on 7 October 2015. Members of the OMDHE coordinating committee were elected in Bunia at the end of a sensitization workshop organized by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office. The Observatory is made up of delegates from the civil society organizations, NGOs and political parties. The sensitization workshop trained the different actors to do a better…
Bunia – 16 October 2015: More than 300 peacekeepers of the Bangladeshi air force in Ituri received the United Nations medals respectively from Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz, MONUSCO Force Commander and M’Hand Ladjouzi, Chief of MONUSCO office in Ituri. Drums and bagpipes were played by the 12th Bangladeshi air contingent to enliven the ceremony attended by civilian and military representatives from MONUSCO and the Ituri…
David Gressly, Deputy Special Representative for the Rule of Law and Acting Head of Mission, and Jose Maria Aranaz, Representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, commend the Government of the DRC for its accession to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol Kinshasa 19 October 2015 – “Persons with disabilities are full human beings and the specific rights recognized to them require particular…
Intensified sensitization campaigns within the framework of MONUSCO DDRRR coupled with the sensitization of the PNC, FARDC and civil society organizations, in addition to the FARDC military actions against armed groups continue to bear fruits, namely in the territory of Shabunda. On 17 September 2015, the chief of Raia Mutomboki, Ms. Cynthia, the former spouse of the ex-leader Paul Ngumbi Wangozi, nicknamed Sisawa, member of the same group…