Democratic Republic of the Congo

Country Information 511
Reference Documents 1

1969 OAU Convention 1
Abduction 19
Abuse of psychiatry 1
Access to procedures 1
Access to water 1
Administrative law 1
Airports 1
Albinism/Persons with Albinism 1
Anti-terrorism law 1
Appeal / Right to appeal 1
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 2
Border conflict 1
Camp management 1
Capacity building of state institutions 5
Ceasefire 4
Child labour 1
Child soldiers 41
Children's rights 25
Children-at-risk 13
Christian 1
Civil and political rights 1
Civil war 3
Civilian character of asylum 3
Combatants / Former combatants 23
Communal conflict / Social conflict 6
Conflict prevention 1
Conflict resolution 7
Conflict situation 37
Constitutional law 1
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
Corruption 9
Country of origin information (COI) 2
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
Effective remedy 2
Elections 22
Embargo 2
Entry / Exit 1
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
Harmful traditional practices 4
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 6
IDP camps 7
Illegal entry 1
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
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
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
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
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
Tutsis 7
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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DR Congo: Fact Sheet 31 May 2014 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Country Reports
The Lord's Resistance Army: The U.S. Response 15 May 2014 \| Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service \| Document type: Country Reports
Progress and Obstacles in the Fight Against Impunity for Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo April 2014 \| Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) \| Document type: Country Reports
Republik Kongo: Sozio-ökonomische Situation von allein-stehenden Müttern 19 March 2014 \| Publisher: Swiss Refugee Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 5 March 2014 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Democratic Republic of Congo: Background and U.S. Policy 24 February 2014 \| Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service \| Document type: Country Reports
Building Peace and Advancing Development in the great Lakes Region 23 January 2014 \| Publisher: UN Development Programme (UNDP) \| Document type: Country Reports
Les Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda (FDLR) 16 January 2014 \| Publisher: France: Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (OFPRA) \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 17 December 2013 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
"Better to die while speaking the truth": Attacks against human rights defenders in North Kivu, DRC 16 December 2013 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports

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