Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Annual Reports 23
• Country News 97
• Country Reports 31
• Speeches/Statements 1
• Thematic Reports 1

• Abduction 9
• Access to procedures 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 18
• Armed attacks on camps 3
• Armed forces / Military 18
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 44
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Batwa 1
• Ceasefire 2
• Child labour 1
• Child soldiers 16
• Children's rights 8
• Children-at-risk 8
• Civil and political rights 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 10
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 2
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 5
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 2
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 2
• Crimes against humanity 10
• Criminal justice 5
• Death penalty 1
• Demobilization / Disarmament 2
• Democracy 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 2
• Disappeared persons 3
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 2
• Domestic violence 1
• Effective remedy 10
• Elections 9
• Ethnic cleansing 1
• Extrajudicial executions 16
• Forced labour 4
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 13
• Freedom of assembly and association 9
• Freedom of conscience 1
• Freedom of expression 15
• Freedom of information 2
• Freedom of movement 1
• Freedom of speech 3
• Gender discrimination 1
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Genocide 3
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• HIV and AIDS 2
• Human rights activists 20
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 14
• Human rights monitors 5
• Humanitarian assistance 2
• Hutus 3
• IDP camps 1
• Impunity 16
• Independence of judiciary 3
• Internal armed conflict 15
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 5
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 2
• International armed conflict 1
• International courts and tribunals 17
• International criminal law 7
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 7
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
• Migrant rights 1
• Migrants 1
• Military courts 3
• Military law 2
• Military operations 6
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 8
• Minorities 1
• National security / Public order 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 1
• Peace agreements 2
• Peace process 4
• Peacekeeping 7
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 8
• Police 5
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 3
• Political situation 8
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Prison or detention conditions 2
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
• Protection of camps 1
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 27
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2
• Public health 1
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 9
• Refugee camps 3
• Refugees 2
• Rejected asylum-seekers 1
• Right to a nationality 1
• Right to education 2
• Right to food 1
• Right to health 1
• Right to justice 9
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 10
• SGBV 27
• Sanctions 1
• Security forces 19
• Security situation 18
• Tutsis 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• War crimes 30
• Women-at-risk 5

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• Amnesty International - Democratic Republic of Congo
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