Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Administrative law 1
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Albinism/Persons with Albinism 1
Anti-terrorism law 1
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Arbitrary arrest and detention 32
Armed attacks on camps 9
Armed forces / Military 40
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 90
Asylum policy 2
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 12
Banyarwanda 1
Batwa 1
Border conflict 1
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Ceasefire 4
Child labour 1
Child soldiers 41
Children's rights 25
Children-at-risk 13
Christian 1
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Conflict resolution 7
Conflict situation 37
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Contemporary forms of slavery 5
Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 5
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 4
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Coup d'état 2
Crimes against humanity 4
Crimes against peace 1
Criminal justice 8
Death in custody 1
Death penalty 15
Demobilization / Disarmament 32
Democracy 3
Deportation / Forcible return 12
Derivative status 1
Disappeared persons 15
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 7
Domestic violence 10
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 6
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Elections 22
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Ethnic cleansing 1
Extrajudicial executions 55
Extreme poverty 1
False documents 3
Family law 1
Family reunification 1
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 6
Forced labour 5
Forced marriage 4
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 44
Freedom of assembly and association 8
Freedom of conscience 2
Freedom of expression 16
Freedom of information 6
Freedom of movement 6
Freedom of religion 6
Freedom of speech 5
Gender discrimination 8
Gender mainstreaming 2
Gender-based persecution 13
Genocide 5
Good governance 6
Gross, systematic and large-scale 3
HIV and AIDS 4
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Hindu 1
Honour killings 1
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 13
Human Rights Council 3
Human rights activists 22
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 63
Human rights courts 3
Human rights law 1
Human rights monitors 10
Humanitarian assistance 12
Hutus 5
IDP camps 7
Illegal entry 1
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Immigrants 4
Impunity 30
Independence of judiciary 14
Indigenous persons 2
Integration 2
Internal armed conflict 43
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 54
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 4
International armed conflict 3
International courts and tribunals 5
International criminal law 5
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 10
International protection 1
Kasaians 1
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Legal representation / Legal aid 2
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 6
Livelihoods 7
Location of camps 1
Luba 1
Lunda, Yeke 1
Mass exodus 2
Maternal and child health care 3
Medical screening 1
Mental health 1
Migrant rights 3
Migrants 6
Military courts 6
Military law 4
Military operations 13
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 13
Minorities 9
Minority rights 4
Muslim 1
Ngbandi 2
Non-refoulement 1
Non-state agents of persecution 2
Older persons 1
Opposition 8
Orderly return 2
Passports 4
Peace agreements 9
Peace process 24
Peacekeeping 41
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 7
Persecution of family members 1
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 1
Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
Persons with disabilities 1
Piracy 2
Police 11
Political groups 7
Political parties 6
Political situation 71
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
Pre-trial detention 12
Prevention of discrimination 1
Prison or detention conditions 19
Prosecution vs persecution 1
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
Protection of camps 3
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 35
Public health 6
Racial / Ethnic persecution 18
Reconciliation 3
Refoulement 5
Refugee / Asylum law 2
Refugee camps 12
Refugee identity documents 1
Refugees 34
Reintegration 13
Rejected asylum-seekers 3
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 2
Resettlement 1
Return conditions 11
Returnees 18
Right to a nationality 1
Right to education 6
Right to health 5
Right to justice 7
Right to liberty and security 2
Right to life 17
Right to registration at birth 1
Right to return 3
Right to seek asylum 2
Rights of non-citizens 3
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 21
Rwandans 2
SGBV 78
Sanctions 4
Security forces 63
Security situation 91
Serious non-political crime 1
Sexual and reproductive rights 1
Small arms 1
Social group discrimination 1
Somalis 1
Spontaneous return 2
State of emergency 1
Statelessness 2
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
Temporary protection 1
Terrorism 8
Torture 2
Trafficking in persons 10
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
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Tutsis 6
UNHCR mandate 1
Unaccompanied / Separated children 6
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 5
Voluntary repatriation 8
War crimes 8
Witchcraft 1
Women's rights 23
Women-at-risk 17

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Driven apart: how repeated displacement changes family dynamics in eastern DRC 20 November 2015 \| Publisher: Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) \| Document type: Country Reports
"Our School Became the Battlefield" - Using Schools for Child Recruitment and Military Purposes in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo 27 October 2015 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country Reports
Justice on Trial: Lessons from the Minova Rape Case in the Democratic Republic of Congo October 2015 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 28 September 2015 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Country Information and Guidance Democratic Republic of Congo: treatment on return September 2015 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Home Office \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 26 June 2015 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Les prisons dans les Kivu : arbitraire et atteintes aux droits humains June 2015 \| Publisher: World Organisation Against Torture \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office on International Humanitarian Law Violations Committed by Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) Combatants in the Territory of Beni, North Kivu Province, between 1 October and 31 December 2014 May 2015 \| Publisher: UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) \| Document type: Country Reports
Death sentences and executions in 2014 31 March 2015 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports
CORI Thematic Report: Elderly and Disabled Kabul, Mogadishu, Kinshasa March 2015 \| Publisher: Country of Origin Research and Information (CORI) \| Document type: Country Reports

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