Democratic Republic of the Congo

Country Information 590
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 34
Armed attacks on camps 9
Armed forces / Military 45
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 106
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 47
Children's rights 30
Children-at-risk 27
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 11
Conflict situation 45
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 39
Democracy 3
Deportation / Forcible return 12
Derivative status 1
Disappeared persons 17
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 9
Domestic violence 12
EU Qualification Directive 1
Economic, social and cultural rights 6
Effective remedy 3
Elections 34
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) 7
Forced labour 5
Forced marriage 5
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
Gang related violence 1
Gender discrimination 10
Gender mainstreaming 2
Gender-based persecution 15
Genocide 5
Good governance 10
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 70
Human rights courts 3
Human rights law 1
Human rights monitors 16
Humanitarian assistance 26
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 67
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 66
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 13
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 16
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 19
Minorities 9
Minority rights 4
Muslim 3
Ngbandi 2
Non-refoulement 1
Non-state agents of persecution 3
Older persons 1
Opposition 13
Orderly return 2
Passports 5
Peace agreements 16
Peace process 25
Peacekeeping 48
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
Persecution based on nationality 1
Persecution based on political opinion 14
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 16
Political situation 109
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 1
Pre-trial detention 12
Prevention of discrimination 1
Prison or detention conditions 21
Prosecution vs persecution 1
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
Protection of camps 3
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 39
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 development 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
Sanctions 4
Security forces 63
Security situation 114
Serious non-political crime 1
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 93
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 3
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 32
Women-at-risk 28

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Death sentences and executions in 2014 31 March 2015 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports
CORI Thematic Report: Elderly and Disabled Kabul, Mogadishu, Kinshasa March 2015 \| Publisher: Country of Origin Research and Information (CORI) \| Document type: Country Reports
Congolese Women: What Happened to the Promise to Protect? 3 February 2015 \| Publisher: Refugees International \| Document type: Country Reports
Letter dated 6 January 2015 from the Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council 19 January 2015 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Letter dated 12 January 2015 from the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo addressed to the President of the Security Council 12 January 2015 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Letter dated 17 December 2014 from the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo addressed to the President of the Security Council 31 December 2014 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo submitted pursuant to paragraph 39 of Security Council resolution 2147 (2014) 30 December 2014 \| Publisher: UN Security Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Congo: Ending the Status Quo 17 December 2014 \| Publisher: International Crisis Group (ICG) \| Document type: Country Reports
Now What? The International Response to Internal Displacement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo December 2014 \| Publisher: Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement \| Document type: Country Reports
Democratic Republic of Congo: Bulldozed: How a mining company buried the truth about forced evictions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 24 November 2014 \| Publisher: Amnesty International \| Document type: Country Reports

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