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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 investigation into the current security situation and human rights violations…

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, inhuman and degrading treatment continued to be steadily committed mostly…

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 Matadi and the territories of Luozi, Seke-Banza and Lukula. On 28 February…

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 assassination. Serge Maheshe, an editor of Radio Okapi in Bukavu, South Kivu, and…

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 Republic of Congo (DRC)1, on human rights violations committed by the Lord's…

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 between Mayi Mayi combatants and the Congrès National pour la Défense du…

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 Forces ( Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo – FARDC)…

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 human rights officials every day, even though those states that practice it…

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 and ?Agro Action Allemande?, a German Non Governmental organization. In…

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 during their recent mission, it was technically possible to organize elections…

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 during the last eleven months, since February 2003, at MONUC?s transit…

19 dec. 03 | Yulu Kabamba MONUC and DRC Government officials paid glowing tributes to MONUC Force Commander, General Mountaga Diallo, on 16 December 2003, during a farewell party in his honor on the occasion of his departure from the Mission. The Special Representative of the United Nations…