Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Article 19 1
• Asylum Aid 10
• Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD) 2
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• Human Rights Watch 30
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• UN Human Rights Council 17
• UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) 38
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• UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 7
• UN Security Council 82
• United Kingdom: Home Office 24
• United States Congressional Research Service 5
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• World Organisation Against Torture 4
• WRITENET 9

• 1969 OAU Convention 1
• Abduction 19
• Abuse of psychiatry 1
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• 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
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• Legal representation / Legal aid 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 6
• Livelihoods 7
• Location of camps 1
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• Medical screening 1
• Mental health 1
• Migrant rights 3
• Migrants 6
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• Military operations 13
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 13
• Minorities 9
• Minority rights 4
• Muslim 1
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• 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
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• 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
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• State of emergency 1
• Statelessness 2
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• Temporary protection 1
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• Torture 2
• Trafficking in persons 10
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
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• 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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• Amnesty International - Democratic Republic of Congo
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Democratic Republic of Congo
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Democratic Republic of the Congo
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in DR Congo
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - DR Congo
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Democratic Republic of the Congo
• ReliefWeb - Democratic Republic of the Congo (the)
• Rift Valley Institute
• UNHCR - Democratic Republic of the Congo
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Congo, Democratic Republic of the
• United Nations News Centre - News Focus: Democratic Republic of Congo
• United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO)
• United States Department of State - Congo (Kinshasa)
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Congo, Democratic Republic Of
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Democratic Republic of the Congo