Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Country News 221

• Abduction 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 1
• Armed forces / Military 20
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 40
• Asylum-seekers 9
• Camp management 1
• Ceasefire 2
• Child soldiers 10
• Children's rights 9
• Children-at-risk 6
• Combatants / Former combatants 23
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 5
• Conflict resolution 7
• Conflict situation 39
• Crimes against humanity 3
• Criminal justice 3
• Demobilization / Disarmament 8
• Deportation / Forcible return 2
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 3
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 4
• Extrajudicial executions 2
• Extreme poverty 2
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 3
• Gender discrimination 1
• Genocide 2
• Good governance 9
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• HIV and AIDS 1
• Harmful traditional practices 2
• Hema 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 2
• Human rights activists 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2
• Humanitarian assistance 7
• Hutus 2
• IDP camps 7
• Impunity 2
• Indigenous persons 2
• Integration 1
• Internal armed conflict 31
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 50
• International armed conflict 2
• International courts and tribunals 3
• International criminal law 2
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Juvenile justice system 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 2
• Livelihoods 1
• Mental health 1
• Migrant rights 2
• Military operations 2
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 5
• Minorities 2
• Opposition 1
• Peace agreements 4
• Peace process 2
• Peacekeeping 8
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
• Police 1
• Political groups 2
• Political parties 3
• Political situation 6
• Prison or detention conditions 6
• Property restitution 1
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 10
• Public health 5
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Refugee camps 4
• Refugees 34
• Reintegration 3
• Religious discrimination 1
• Resettlement 1
• Return conditions 7
• Returnees 9
• Right to education 2
• Right to food 4
• Right to health 2
• Right to justice 1
• Right to return 1
• SGBV 15
• Security forces 1
• Security situation 62
• Small arms 1
• Social group discrimination 1
• Terrorism 1
• Tutsis 3
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• War crimes 8
• Women's rights 1
• Women-at-risk 2

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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