Investigation report on the attack on Kabingu village in South Kivu on 9 July 2005
From 12 to 20 July 2005, a multidisciplinary team from the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) conducted an investigation into an attack that took place on the evening of 9 July…
Special report on human rights violations in the Territory of Mitwaba, Katanga Province (2006)
From 13 to 19 February 2006, a multidisciplinary Team of MONUC (Special Investigations Unit (SIU) of the Human Rights Division, Public Information Office, Security, Joint Mission Analysis Centre (JMAC) carried out an…
Report on the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (January-June 2007)
The human rights situation in the DRC during the period covered by this report (January-June 2007) continued to be cause for grave concern. Serious human rights violations such as arbitrary executions, rape, torture and cruel…
Special inquiry into the Bas Congo events of February and March 2008
A Human Rights-led multidisciplinary team1 was dispatched to Bas Congo from 17-28 March 2008 to carry out an investigation into the violent incidents involving the Police nationale congolaise (PNC) and the Bundu Dia Kongo in…
Observation report on the appeal proceedings of Serge Maheshe's assassination (2008)
This report compiles the observations of the United Nations Joint Office for Human Rights (UNJHRO) during the appeal proceedings (6 oof February to 21st of May 2008) against the presumed perpetrators of Serge Maheshe’s…
Special report on alleged human rights violations by the LRA in Haut-Uélé and Bas-Uélé in 2008-2009
This report provides a summary of the investigative and fact finding missions conducted between May 2008 and June 2009, by teams of officers from the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) in the Democratic…
Special report on grave human rights abuses commited in Kiwanja, North Kivu, in Nov. 2008
The investigation conducted by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) from November 2008 to the beginning of January 2009 into the Kiwanja killings of 5 November 2008, indicates that after the intense fighting…
Special report on violations of Human Rights by FARDC in Goma and Kanyabayonga end of 2008
At the end of October 2008 and in November 2008, in the context of generalized fighting in North Kivu between the Congolese-Tutsi rebel group Congrès national pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP ) and the Congolese National Armed…
Statement by Navi Pillay, HCHR. on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
GENEVA , 26 June 2010 – "Almost all states have laws that prohibit torture and declare it a crime. Yet many states practice torture and do not prosecute those who commit it. Chilling reports of torture cross the desks of UN…
Bunia-Kasenyi road rehabilitated by Monuc and a German NGO
14 jan. 04 | Yulu Kabamba Thirty vehicles covered, Tuesday 13 January, the 48 Km-road linking Bunia to Kasenyi, to mark the official inauguration of the rehabilitated road within the framework of a partnership between MONUC…
It is possible to hold DRC elections in 2005, according to William Swing
14 jan. 04 | Yulu Kabamba The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, William Lacy Swing, declared Tuesday in Kinshasa that, as indicated by the UN experts…
MONUC's first repatriation operation of Burundian ex-combatants
29 dec. 03 | Yulu Kabamba On 28 December 2003, MONUC repatriated 151 Burundian ex-combatants and 10 dependants to their country of origin. Those Burundian ex-combatants belonging to the FDD and the FLN were gradually cantoned…