Democratic Republic of the Congo

Country Information 512
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 91
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 23
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 13
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 44
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 9
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 7
Political situation 72
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 4
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 3
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 92
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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Report by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office on the Violations of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Committed During the Electoral Period in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as Well as on the Actions taken by Congolese Authorities in Response to these Violations December 2013 \| Publisher: UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) \| Document type: Country Reports
"We Risk Our Lives for Daily Bread" - Findings of the Danish Refugee Council Study of Mixed Migration in Libya December 2013 \| Publisher: Danish Refugee Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Women's Asylum News: Issue No. 119, October/November 2013 October 2013 \| Publisher: Asylum Aid \| Document type: Country Reports
The Researcher, October 2013 October 2013 \| Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 30 September 2013 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region 24 September 2013 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
A life of fear and flight: The Legacy of LRA Brutality in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo 17 September 2013 \| Publisher: Norwegian Refugee Council/Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (NRC/IDMC) \| Document type: Country Reports
Submission by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees For the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' Compilation Report – Universal Periodic Review: Democratic Republic of the Congo September 2013 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Country Reports
Comprendre les conflits dans l'Est du Congo (I) : la plaine de la Ruzizi 23 July 2013 \| Publisher: International Crisis Group (ICG) \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights and the activities of her Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 12 July 2013 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Country Reports

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