Democratic Republic of the Congo

Country Information 568
Reference Documents 1

1969 OAU Convention 1
Abduction 22
Abuse of psychiatry 3
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 33
Armed attacks on camps 9
Armed forces / Military 44
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 99
Asylum policy 2
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 12
Banyarwanda 2
Batwa 2
Border conflict 3
Camp management 1
Capacity building of state institutions 5
Ceasefire 4
Child labour 1
Child soldiers 45
Children's rights 30
Children-at-risk 22
Christian 3
Civil and political rights 3
Civil war 3
Civilian character of asylum 3
Combatants / Former combatants 24
Communal conflict / Social conflict 7
Conflict prevention 1
Conflict resolution 9
Conflict situation 44
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) 6
Corruption 10
Country of origin information (COI) 2
Coup d'état 2
Crimes against humanity 4
Crimes against peace 1
Criminal justice 10
Death in custody 1
Death penalty 15
Demobilization / Disarmament 37
Democracy 3
Deportation / Forcible return 12
Derivative status 1
Disappeared persons 17
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 9
Domestic violence 11
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 6
Effective remedy 3
Elections 31
Embargo 2
Entry / Exit 1
Ethnic cleansing 1
Extrajudicial executions 56
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 45
Freedom of assembly and association 14
Freedom of conscience 2
Freedom of expression 22
Freedom of information 9
Freedom of movement 6
Freedom of religion 6
Freedom of speech 7
Gender discrimination 10
Gender mainstreaming 2
Gender-based persecution 14
Genocide 5
Good governance 9
Gross, systematic and large-scale 3
HIV and AIDS 5
Harmful traditional practices 5
Hindu 1
Honour killings 1
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 14
Human Rights Council 4
Human rights activists 26
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 66
Human rights courts 3
Human rights law 1
Human rights monitors 11
Humanitarian assistance 15
Hutus 6
IDP camps 7
Illegal entry 1
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
Immigrants 4
Impunity 31
Independence of judiciary 14
Indigenous persons 2
Integration 2
Internal armed conflict 54
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 55
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 12
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 8
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 15
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 18
Minorities 9
Minority rights 4
Muslim 3
Ngbandi 2
Non-refoulement 1
Non-state agents of persecution 3
Older persons 1
Opposition 11
Orderly return 2
Passports 5
Peace agreements 12
Peace process 25
Peacekeeping 47
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 13
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 14
Political situation 93
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
Pre-trial detention 12
Prevention of discrimination 1
Prison or detention conditions 20
Prosecution vs persecution 1
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
Protection of camps 3
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 36
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 5
Public health 10
Racial / Ethnic persecution 19
Reconciliation 4
Referendum 2
Refoulement 5
Refugee / Asylum law 2
Refugee camps 12
Refugee identity documents 1
Refugees 39
Reintegration 16
Rejected asylum-seekers 3
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 4
Resettlement 2
Return conditions 11
Returnees 19
Right to a nationality 1
Right to education 8
Right to health 6
Right to justice 8
Right to liberty and security 4
Right to life 19
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 88
Sanctions 4
Security forces 63
Security situation 105
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 3
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 4
Temporary protection 1
Terrorism 10
Torture 2
Trafficking in persons 10
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
Tutsis 8
UNHCR mandate 1
Unaccompanied / Separated children 6
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 5
Voluntary repatriation 8
War crimes 8
Witchcraft 2
Women's rights 30
Women-at-risk 23

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Operation Likofi: Police Killings and Enforced Disappearances in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo 21 November 2014 \| Publisher: Human Rights Watch \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the UNJHRO on Human Rights violations committed by agents of the Congolese National Police October 2014 \| Publisher: UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) \| Document type: Country Reports
RDC : L'exploitation et l'exportation des minerais dans l'Est de la RDC. Conditions d'extraction, d'exploitation et d'exportation des minerais. Implication des groupes armés et des autorités. Sanctions prévues par la législation et leur application. 14 August 2014 \| Publisher: France: Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (OFPRA) \| Document type: Country Reports
DR Congo: Fact Sheet 31 July 2014 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Country Reports
Briefing to the UN Security Council Working Group on the recruitment and use of children in the DRC 31 July 2014 \| Publisher: Child Soldiers International \| Document type: Country Reports
DR Congo: North Kivu's Long, Rocky Road to Stability 10 July 2014 \| Publisher: Refugees International \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review : Democratic Republic of the Congo 7 July 2014 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Country Reports
DR Congo: Fact Sheet 30 June 2014 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 30 June 2014 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
DR Congo: Katanga in Crisis 26 June 2014 \| Publisher: Refugees International \| Document type: Country Reports

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