Democratic Republic of the Congo

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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-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 41
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 19
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 16
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 88
Freedom of information 54
Freedom of religion 2
Freedom of speech 54
Gender discrimination 1
Gender mainstreaming 1
Genocide 5
Good governance 20
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 3
Immigration Detention 1
Impunity 32
Independence of judiciary 3
Indigenous persons 2
Integration 2
Internal armed conflict 120
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 162
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
Maternal and child health care 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 95
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 117
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 4
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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Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: UNHCR calling for the protection of civilians amid renewed fighting 22 May 2013 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees \| Document type: Country News
UNHCR urges protection for civilians amid fresh fighting in Democratic Republic of the Congo 22 May 2013 \| Publisher: UN High Commissioner for Refugees \| Document type: Country News
Democratic Republic of the Congo: UN voices concern as fighting resumes between Government and M23 forces 20 May 2013 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Support for Press Freedom Day debates in North Kivu 20 May 2013 \| Publisher: Reporters Without Borders \| Document type: Country News
Malaria overstretching healthcare in Democratic Republic of Congo 20 May 2013 \| Publisher: Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) \| Document type: Country News
Cape Town's asylum seekers struggle to get documented 16 May 2013 \| Publisher: Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) \| Document type: Country News
Briefing: Towards internal solutions to the Democratic Republic of Congo crisis 14 May 2013 \| Publisher: Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) \| Document type: Country News
Security Council, Ban call on DR Congo to investigate death of Pakistani peacekeeper 8 May 2013 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
UN report confirms nearly 200 women and girls raped by Congolese troops, rebels 8 May 2013 \| Publisher: UN News Service \| Document type: Country News
Is more force in the Democratic Republic of Congo more of the same? 8 May 2013 \| Publisher: Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) \| Document type: Country News

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