Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Country News 139
• Country Reports 2

• Abduction 27
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Albanians 6
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 3
• Anti-terrorism law 9
• Arabs 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 26
• Armed attacks on camps 8
• Armed forces / Military 54
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 86
• Assyrians 2
• Bedoon 2
• Border conflict 21
• Border controls 2
• Buddhist 7
• Ceasefire 49
• Chechen 5
• Child soldiers 11
• Children's rights 2
• Children-at-risk 10
• Christian 40
• Civil war 13
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 2
• Combatants / Former combatants 2
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 21
• Conflict resolution 10
• Conflict situation 4
• Corruption 21
• Country of origin information (COI) 1
• Coup d'état 9
• Crimean Tatars 4
• Crimes against humanity 4
• Criminal justice 2
• Death penalty 41
• Demobilization / Disarmament 6
• Democracy 4
• Deportation / Forcible return 2
• Disappeared persons 6
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 12
• Drug trafficking 2
• Druze 4
• Election law 1
• Elections 91
• Embargo 1
• Entry / Exit 2
• Ethiopians 4
• Exiles 4
• Extradition 4
• Extrajudicial executions 13
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 2
• Forced marriage 4
• Foreign occupation 5
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 14
• Freedom of assembly and association 51
• Freedom of expression 48
• Freedom of information 29
• Freedom of movement 2
• Freedom of religion 10
• Freedom of speech 16
• Fulani 2
• Gang related violence 2
• Genocide 2
• Good governance 11
• HIV and AIDS 3
• Harmful traditional practices 2
• Hindu 6
• Honour killings 6
• Human rights activists 23
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 11
• Humanitarian assistance 13
• Immigrants 2
• Immigration law 1
• Immunity 2
• Impunity 2
• Independence of judiciary 2
• Internal armed conflict 70
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 14
• International armed conflict 3
• International courts and tribunals 4
• International criminal law 2
• Jehovah's Witness 1
• Kachin 2
• Kurd 40
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 27
• Migrant rights 2
• Migrants 16
• Military courts 2
• Military operations 48
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 9
• Muslim 53
• National security / Public order 2
• Nepalis 1
• One-child policy / Family planning 4
• Opposition 48
• Palestinian 29
• Peace agreements 44
• Peace process 12
• Peacekeeping 22
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 33
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 21
• Persons with disabilities 2
• Police 37
• Political parties 29
• Political situation 106
• Polygamy 3
• Prison or detention conditions 8
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 22
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 63
• Public health 6
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
• Referendum 18
• Refugee camps 12
• Refugees 47
• Religious discrimination 5
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 16
• Returnees 1
• Right to food 2
• Right to self-determination 4
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 6
• Roma 4
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 4
• SGBV 10
• Safe country of origin 2
• Salafi 4
• Sanctions 6
• Secondary movement 2
• Security forces 38
• Security situation 137
• Shabak 2
• Sharia law 3
• Shia 25
• Sindhis 1
• Smuggling of persons 2
• State of emergency 14
• State protection 1
• Sunni 13
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
• Tamil 7
• Tatars 4
• Terrorism 102
• Tibetan 10
• Torture 2
• Trafficking in persons 2
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Tuareg 5
• Turkmen 2
• Uighur 25
• Visas 2
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• War crimes 16
• Women's rights 6
• Women-at-risk 9
• Yazīdī 6

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