MONUSCO’s Gender Section celebrated the 2016 Edition of the International Women’s Day between 8-16 March 2016 in Goma, Bunia, Kisangani and Bukavu and in Masisi territory in Eastern DRC. The day was set aside to celebrate women’s achievements and their contributions in various fields; their participation in nation-building and in the development of their communities; and to discuss factors impeding their representation and full involvement in…
Newspaper and broadcast media directors in Beni attended a training workshop on peace journalism organized by the MONUSCO Public Information Division on 11-12 March 2015. The workshop sought to provide participants with an understanding of how media professionals can help restore peace in a region plagued by recurrent wars. At least that’s the stated ambition of journalists in Beni. For while the MONUSCO Public Information Division did take the…
Kalemie, 10 March 2016 - MONUSCO-Kalemie office held early this week an awareness session at the naval base of the 22nd FARDC group of Kalemie. This awareness session, which was conducted by the Child Protection section, brought together 173 military personnel, 3 of them women, of various ranks, including junior officers and lower ranks. This activity was undertaken in the context of the implementation of the joint Government-United Nations…
Kisangani, 10 March 2016 – the Director of MONUSCO Public Information, Mr. Charles Antoine Bambara held a meeting with roughly forty journalists in the city of Kisangani on Thursday 10 March 2016. Right from the beginning, Mr. Charles Bambara said relationship between the Congolese government and MONUSCO is now excellent. He further told the journalists that the UN Mission and the Government are currently working on the resumption of the…
Goma, 9 March, 2016 – The International Women’s Day was commemorated on Tuesday, 8 March 2016, a day set aside to honour the achievements of women everywhere in the world. This year, the day was commemorated under the theme, Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality. In a statement issued by MONUSCO prior to the commemoration, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…
Kisangani, 8 March 2016: Magistrates of civil and military jurisdictions in the South Kivu and Ituri are currently participating in a two-day workshop in Kisangani, Tshopo province organized by UNDP under the theme ”Mapping technics and drafting of a strategy on the prosecution of international crimes”. The purpose of the training is to provide magistrates with empower magistrates to autonomously draft a strategy on the prosecution for serious…
On Tuesday 8 March 2016, roughly a hundred groups of women from public and private institutions as well as religious, political and non-political organizations participated in a march organized by the provincial authority on the main roads of the city of Kisangani up to the post office compound where speeches were delivered. Several officials attended. The chief of MONUSCO-Kisangani office, Ms. Aissetou Sanogo, read to the assembly UN Secretary…
Kinshasa, 8 March 2016 – On the occasion of International Women’s Day celebrated on 08 March 2016 under the theme : « Planet 50-50 by 2030 : Step It Up for Gender Equality », Maman Sambo Sidikou, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in the DRC, reaffirms MONUSCO’s commitment to work alongside the Congolese government and population to achieve the gender equality goal. «I commend the efforts being made by the Congolese…
Durant le mois de février 2016, le BCNUDH a documenté 332 violations des droits de l’homme sur le territoire de la RDC, ce qui représente une baisse par rapport au mois de janvier 2016 au cours duquel 411 violations avaient été enregistrées. Les provinces les plus touchées restent celles de l’est de la RDC (180 violations et 226 victimes), à savoir les provinces du Nord-Kivu (96 violations), de l’Ituri (46 violations), du Tshopo (15 violations)…
The overall goal has been to scale up activities to increase access to HIV testing in rural DRC. These activities are being implemented as part of HIV awareness programme that includes sensitization, messaging, and testing. In the Masisi territory in the North Kivu Province, the HIV/AIDS Section of MONUSCO has reached scores of people with awareness and prevention messages, advocating for the rights of people living with HIV. This is being…