Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Abduction 49
Abuse of psychiatry 2
Access to procedures 1
Access to water 1
Acts of persecution 1
Albanians 6
Albinism/Persons with Albinism 9
Anti-terrorism law 10
Arabs 1
Arbitrary arrest and detention 58
Armed attacks on camps 14
Armed forces / Military 185
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 320
Assyrians 2
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 49
Banyamulenge 1
Banyarwanda 1
Batwa 1
Bedoon 2
Border conflict 22
Border controls 2
Border crossers 5
Buddhist 7
Camp management 3
Ceasefire 54
Cessation clauses 2
Chechen 5
Child soldiers 61
Children's rights 37
Children-at-risk 32
Christian 41
Civil and political rights 4
Civil war 16
Climate change (including environmental migrants) 2
Combatants / Former combatants 69
Communal conflict / Social conflict 44
Community development 1
Conflict prevention 4
Conflict resolution 39
Conflict situation 116
Contemporary forms of slavery 2
Corruption 25
Country of origin information (COI) 1
Coup d'état 9
Crimean Tatars 4
Crimes against humanity 39
Crimes against peace 2
Criminal justice 27
Death in custody 1
Death penalty 47
Demobilization / Disarmament 46
Democracy 7
Deportation / Forcible return 11
Disappeared persons 10
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 18
Domestic violence 7
Drug trafficking 2
Druze 4
Economic, social and cultural rights 3
Effective remedy 20
Election law 1
Elections 142
Embargo 4
Entry / Exit 2
Equality before the law 1
Ethiopians 4
Ethnic cleansing 1
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
Exclusion clauses 1
Exhaustion of domestic remedies 1
Exiles 5
Expulsion 5
Extradition 4
Extrajudicial executions 41
Extreme poverty 5
Family reunification 3
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 7
Flight by land, air or sea 1
Forced labour 1
Forced marriage 6
Foreign occupation 5
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 52
Freedom of assembly and association 62
Freedom of conscience 3
Freedom of expression 195
Freedom of information 128
Freedom of movement 3
Freedom of religion 10
Freedom of speech 110
Fulani 2
Gang related violence 2
Gender discrimination 2
Gender mainstreaming 1
Gender-based persecution 6
Genocide 9
Good governance 31
Good offices 1
Gross, systematic and large-scale 5
HIV and AIDS 7
Harmful traditional practices 6
Hema 1
Hindu 6
Honour killings 7
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 4
Human Rights Council 2
Human rights activists 68
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 40
Human rights courts 1
Human rights law 3
Human rights monitors 10
Humanitarian assistance 92
Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
Hutus 13
IDP camps 18
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
Immigrants 2
Immigration Detention 1
Immigration law 1
Immunity 2
Impunity 55
Independence of judiciary 5
Indigenous persons 2
Integration 3
Internal armed conflict 247
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 214
International armed conflict 11
International courts and tribunals 51
International criminal law 16
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 7
Involuntary repatriation 1
Jehovah's Witness 1
Juvenile justice system 1
Kachin 2
Kurd 40
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 5
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 35
Livelihoods 3
Location of camps 1
Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
Mass exodus 1
Maternal and child health care 1
Mental health 1
Mercenaries 1
Migrant rights 6
Migrants 22
Military courts 11
Military law 2
Military operations 83
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 22
Minorities 3
Muslim 55
National security / Public order 4
Nepalis 1
Non-state agents of persecution 1
One-child policy / Family planning 4
Opposition 66
Orderly return 3
Palestinian 29
Peace agreements 62
Peace process 30
Peacekeeping 187
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 5
Persecution based on political opinion 50
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 22
Persons of concern to UNHCR 3
Persons with disabilities 5
Police 50
Political groups 5
Political parties 45
Political situation 172
Polygamy 3
Pre-trial detention 3
Prison or detention conditions 23
Property restitution 1
Prosecution vs persecution 1
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
Protection of camps 2
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 122
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 67
Public health 13
Racial / Ethnic persecution 5
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 4
Reception 1
Reconciliation 5
Referendum 16
Refugee camps 38
Refugees 234
Reintegration 13
Rejected asylum-seekers 1
Rejection at border 1
Religious discrimination 6
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 14
Resettlement 2
Return conditions 20
Returnees 31
Right to a nationality 2
Right to development 1
Right to education 5
Right to employment 1
Right to family life 1
Right to food 14
Right to health 6
Right to justice 8
Right to liberty and security 2
Right to life 1
Right to return 2
Right to seek asylum 2
Right to self-determination 4
Rohingya (Arakanese) 6
Roma 6
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 20
Rwandans 3
SGBV 146
Safe country of origin 2
Salafi 4
Sanctions 14
Secondary movement 3
Security forces 62
Security situation 393
Shabak 2
Sharia law 3
Shia 25
Sindhis 1
Small arms 6
Smuggling of persons 2
Social group discrimination 3
State of emergency 14
State protection 1
Statelessness 1
Sunni 13
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 1
Tamil 7
Tatars 4
Terrorism 111
Threats / Intimidation 1
Tibetan 11
Torture 3
Trafficking in persons 15
Transit 1
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 4
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 3
Tuareg 5
Turkmen 2
Tutsis 4
Uighur 25
Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
Urban refugees 2
Visas 2
Voluntary repatriation 24
War crimes 88
Witnesses 1
Women's rights 50
Women-at-risk 19
Yazīdī 6

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DR Congo: Ban condemns deadly clashes between protestors and security forces in capital 19 September 2016 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Democratic Republic of Congo at a Precipice: Ending Repression and Promoting Democratic Rule 18 September 2016 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country News
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Declaration of the FIDH Congress in solidarity with human rights defenders at risk 26 August 2016 \| Publisher: International Federation for Human Rights \| Document type: Country News
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