Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Amnesty International 26
• Article 19 4
• Asylum Aid 26
• Committee to Protect Journalists 23
• Germany: Federal Office for Migration and Asylum 16
• Human Rights Watch 65
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting 21
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) 221
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) 6
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 16
• International Crisis Group (ICG) 3
• International Federation for Human Rights 23
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) 1
• Jamestown Foundation 2
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 2
• Reporters Without Borders 50
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees 68
• UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) 2
• UN News Service 342
• UN World Health Organization 1
• World Organisation Against Torture 11

• Abduction 15
• Access to procedures 1
• Acts of persecution 1
• Anti-terrorism law 2
• Arabs 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 13
• Armed attacks on camps 8
• Armed forces / Military 76
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 129
• Asylum-seekers 40
• Banyamulenge 1
• Banyarwanda 1
• Border conflict 1
• Camp management 2
• Ceasefire 5
• Child soldiers 41
• Children's rights 27
• Children-at-risk 13
• Christian 3
• Civil war 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 64
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 18
• Conflict prevention 1
• Conflict resolution 15
• Conflict situation 100
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Corruption 2
• Crimes against humanity 20
• Crimes against peace 2
• Criminal justice 25
• Death in custody 1
• Death penalty 5
• Demobilization / Disarmament 15
• Democracy 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 6
• Disabled persons 2
• Disappeared persons 5
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 6
• Domestic violence 7
• Effective remedy 7
• Elections 33
• Embargo 4
• Equality before the law 1
• Ethnic cleansing 1
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
• Exclusion clauses 1
• Exhaustion of domestic remedies 1
• Expulsion 4
• Extrajudicial executions 25
• Extreme poverty 4
• Family reunification 2
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 5
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Forced labour 1
• Forced marriage 2
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 36
• Freedom of assembly and association 1
• Freedom of conscience 3
• Freedom of expression 87
• Freedom of information 54
• Freedom of religion 2
• Freedom of speech 53
• Gender discrimination 1
• Gender mainstreaming 1
• Genocide 5
• Good governance 19
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 5
• HIV and AIDS 5
• Harmful traditional practices 2
• Hema 1
• Honour killings 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 4
• Human rights activists 34
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 17
• Human rights law 3
• Human rights monitors 8
• Humanitarian assistance 42
• Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
• Hutus 12
• IDP camps 13
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigration Detention 1
• Impunity 32
• Independence of judiciary 2
• Indigenous persons 2
• Integration 2
• Internal armed conflict 118
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 160
• International armed conflict 9
• International courts and tribunals 22
• International criminal law 14
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Juvenile justice system 1
• Kurd 2
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 7
• Livelihoods 1
• Location of camps 1
• Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
• Mass exodus 1
• Mental health 1
• Mercenaries 1
• Migrant rights 3
• Migrants 2
• Military courts 5
• Military law 1
• Military operations 21
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 11
• Minorities 3
• Muslim 1
• Opposition 9
• Orderly return 3
• Palestinian 1
• Peace agreements 14
• Peace process 9
• Peacekeeping 93
• Persecution based on political opinion 3
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 3
• Police 8
• Political groups 4
• Political parties 12
• Political situation 42
• Polygamy 1
• Pre-trial detention 3
• Prison or detention conditions 16
• Property restitution 1
• Prosecution vs persecution 1
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
• Protection of camps 2
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 63
• Public health 7
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 3
• Reconciliation 2
• Refugee camps 19
• Refugees 116
• Reintegration 4
• Religious discrimination 2
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 1
• Resettlement 2
• Return conditions 15
• Returnees 22
• Right to a nationality 1
• Right to development 1
• Right to education 3
• Right to employment 1
• Right to family life 1
• Right to food 6
• Right to health 3
• Right to justice 5
• Right to liberty and security 2
• Right to life 1
• Right to return 2
• Right to seek asylum 2
• Roma 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 13
• Rwandans 2
• SGBV 116
• Sanctions 5
• Security forces 25
• Security situation 199
• Sharia law 1
• Shia 2
• Small arms 3
• Social group discrimination 2
• State protection 1
• Tamil 1
• Terrorism 4
• Trafficking in persons 12
• Transit 1
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 3
• Tuareg 1
• Tutsis 4
• Uighur 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
• Voluntary repatriation 13
• War crimes 51
• Women's rights 38
• Women-at-risk 6

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• AlertNet - Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Amnesty International - Democratic Republic of Congo
• Cultural Orientation Resource (COR) Center - Publications: Refugee Backgrounders
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Dem Rep 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) - DR 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