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MONUSCO to set up a work group to facilitate withdrawal of child soldiers from armed forces
Bunia, 1st October 2015: MONUSCO, through its child protection section, organized on 30 September an extraordinary meeting of the joint technical working group DRC Government/United Nations with a view to exploring the means…
- Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV)
UNJHRO trains civil society on the protection for the victims and witnesses of sexual violence
At the initiative of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office, a workshop on capacity-building for the civil society organizations in the area of the protection for the victims and witnesses of sexual violence was held on…
South-Kivu: 71 Raïas Mutomboki surrendered and transferred to Goma by MONUSCO
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…
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol
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…
Bangladesh air force receives UN Medals for their actions in Ituri
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…
MONUSCO supports the establishment of a human rights and elections observatory OMDHE in Ituri
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…
Update on the situation of the two members of the Group of Experts of the United Nations in the Kasais
Kinshasa, March 29, 2017 – As announced by the Secretary General of the United Nations yesterday, the United Nations Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) has confirmed that the bodies located and recovered by MONUSCO peacekeepers on…
Security Council Press Statement on the death of two members of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the killing of two UN experts from the Group of Experts who were monitoring the sanctions regime in the Kasaï Central region of the Democratic Republic of…
DR Congo: Security Council extends peacekeeping mandate, but reduces troop strength
31 March 2017 – The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for another year but reduced the number of troops. In a resolution unanimously…
MONUSCO deplores the ongoing hostilities and escalating violence in the Kasais
KINSHASA, 5 April 2017 – MONUSCO is alarmed by ongoing reports from the Kasai region of escalating violence that is continuing to result in serious human rights violations including an ever growing number of civilian…