Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Country Reports 2
• Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries 10
• Query Responses 41

• Acts of persecution 1
• Age discrimination 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 3
• Armed forces / Military 6
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 6
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-migration nexus 1
• Asylum-seekers 11
• Banyamulenge 1
• Bemba 1
• Child labour 1
• Child soldiers 2
• Children's rights 2
• Children-at-risk 1
• Christian 3
• Combatants / Former combatants 2
• Complementary forms of protection 1
• Conflict situation 2
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Corruption 3
• Country of origin information (COI) 1
• Coup d'état 1
• Crimes against humanity 1
• Criminal justice 1
• Death penalty 1
• Demobilization / Disarmament 2
• Denial of refugee status 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 1
• Disappeared persons 1
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 3
• Domestic violence 2
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 2
• Exclusion clauses 1
• Family reunification 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 5
• Freedom of assembly and association 2
• Freedom of movement 1
• Freedom of religion 3
• Good governance 1
• HIV and AIDS 1
• Harmful traditional practices 3
• Hindu 1
• Honour killings 1
• Human rights activists 3
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2
• Human rights law 1
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
• Immigrants 3
• Immigration Detention 2
• Impunity 2
• Independence of judiciary 1
• Indigenous persons 1
• Internal armed conflict 2
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 3
• International courts and tribunals 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• International protection 6
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 2
• Mental health 1
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 1
• Migrants 2
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 2
• Minorities 1
• Muslim 1
• Ngbandi 1
• Opposition 5
• Peace agreements 1
• Pentecostal 1
• Persecution based on political opinion 6
• Persecution of family members 1
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 1
• Persons with disabilities 1
• Police 5
• Political groups 8
• Political parties 11
• Political situation 12
• Prison or detention conditions 4
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 2
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
• Public health 3
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 2
• Refugee identity documents 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugees 12
• Reintegration 1
• Rejected asylum-seekers 4
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 1
• Return conditions 4
• Returnees 5
• Right to education 1
• Right to family life 1
• SGBV 5
• Security forces 2
• Security situation 2
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 2
• State protection 5
• Statelessness 2
• Torture 1
• Trafficking in persons 2
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
• Tutsis 2
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• War crimes 2
• Well-founded fear of persecution 1
• Women's rights 4

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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