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DRC: UN Joint Human Rights Office report on mass rapes in Walikale
Investigation into mass rapes and other human rights violations in Walikale reveals prevailing lack of accountability Kinshasa/Geneva, 6 July 2011: A UN investigation into serious human rights violations perpetrated in…
Internally displaced persons in Binyampuli find refuge at nearby MONUSCO Base
Goma, 28 May 2012 – Scores of villagers in Walikale territory, Nord Kivu province, fled their homes following repeated attacks from armed elements. Some 2000 villagers found refuge in a primary school in Binyampuli, close to…
- Gender
MONUSCO commemorates the 15th anniversary of UNSCR. 1325 (2000)
About 50 women activists converged in Goma on 30 October 15, 2015 to take stock of the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 in DRC and in North Kivu in particular. The event organized by MONUSCO…
Pillay cites 'appalling' human rights record of leaders of M23 mutineers, fears further abuses
Geneva, 19 June 2012 - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, expressed deep concern Tuesday about the safety of the civilian population living in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as…
- Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV)
FARDC training on the issue of sexual violence in Ituri
Bunia, 15 June 2012 –Twenty-five officers and non-commissioned officers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) underwent five-day training on sexual violence. During the workshop which started on…
MONUSCO explains its role to students in Mbandaka, Equateur province
Mbandaka, 9 June 2012 – « United Nations Peacekeepers : Myths and Realities » was the theme of a conference organized in Mbandaka, Equateur province, on Friday, 8 June 2012, by the Public Information Section of the United…
The number of irregular detentions decreases in Sud Kivu province
Bukavu, 19 May 2012 – Relevant officials from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), conducted a meeting with…
Life resumes in Bunagana
Goma, 29 May 2012 – A joint mission composed of military and civilian officials from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) visited Bunagana, a town in Rutshuru…
Gender sensitization workshops across DRC for Congolese Police
Kinshasa, 18 June 2012 - The Office of Gender Affairs of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) has completed a series of workshops across the country to sensitize…
Efforts to combat sexual violence must continue
Bukavu, 14 June 2012 - Géneviève Inagosi, the Congolese Minister for Gender, Family and Children, and Marie Oniwa and Elsie Effange-Mbella, respectively Heads of the Sexual Violence and Gender Units of the United Nations…