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United Nations’ Day: DRC-UNO together for peace, stabilization and development
Kinshasa, 23 October 2010 - On Saturday, October 23, the United Nations in Kinshasa celebrated the sixty fifth anniversary of the adoption of the founding Charter of the UNO on 24 October 1945. This event which was organized…
Corrections Unit, a new section within MONUSCO
Kinshasa, 21 October 2010 - In order to give a new impetus to the corrections work that its Rule of Law section has undertaken on the ground since 2006 by the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the…
Bukavu: World March of Women
Bukavu, 18 October 2010 - Peace and demilitarisation is the main theme of the third International Action of the World March of Women whose activities were held in Bukavu, South Kivu province from 13 to 17 October 2010…
SRSG Meece briefs Security Council about the challenges faced by MONUSCO
New York/Kinshasa, 15 October 2010 - The horrific attacks in Democratic Republic of the Congo's restive North Kivu province in late July and early August, clearly underscored the importance of civilian protection and had…
- Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV)
UN panel urges support for sexual violence victims in DR Congo
Kinshasa/Geneva, 13 October 2010 – A high-level panel convened by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to hear directly from victims of sexual violence in the DRC reported Wednesday on its preliminary findings that the…
Oriental Province: MONUSCO transports important electoral equipment
Kisangani, 11 October 2010 - About 134 tons of election equipment transported by the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) arrived at Kisangani on 9 October 2010 from Kinshasa by ferries…
Ban Ki-moon encouraged by the arrest of “Lieutenant-colonel” Mayele
New York/Kinshasa, 6 October 2010 – UN Secretary-General held his regular monthly press conference at the UN headquarters during which he touched on the "mapping report" concerning the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…
North Kivu: UN peacekeepers protect displaced people at Kiwanja
Goma, 30 September 2010 - After a money changer was killed by an armed man in Kiwanja town, Rutshuru territory on 25 September, the population suspected the people in the local camp for internally displaced persons to be…
UN releases D.R. Congo report listing 10 years of atrocities, identifying justice options
Geneva, 1 October 2010 - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released Friday a 550-page report listing 617 of the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law over a ten-year period by both…
- Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV)
UN High Level panel to hear from victims of sexual violence in the DRC
Kinshasa/Geneva, 29 September 2010 – A high-level panel, convened by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, will meet with and hear directly from victims of sexual violence in the DRC. Through interactive dialogue, survivors…