Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Country News 342

• Abduction 3
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 1
• Armed attacks on camps 3
• Armed forces / Military 39
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 52
• Asylum-seekers 5
• Banyamulenge 1
• Banyarwanda 1
• Camp management 1
• Ceasefire 2
• Child soldiers 14
• Children's rights 8
• Children-at-risk 3
• Civil war 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 33
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 8
• Conflict prevention 1
• Conflict resolution 4
• Conflict situation 38
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Crimes against humanity 6
• Crimes against peace 1
• Criminal justice 9
• Death in custody 1
• Demobilization / Disarmament 5
• Democracy 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 3
• Disappeared persons 1
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 2
• Effective remedy 2
• Elections 17
• Embargo 1
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
• Exclusion clauses 1
• Expulsion 4
• Extrajudicial executions 7
• Extreme poverty 2
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 16
• Freedom of assembly and association 1
• Freedom of expression 8
• Freedom of information 2
• Freedom of speech 2
• Gender mainstreaming 1
• Genocide 1
• Good governance 4
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 4
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
• Human rights activists 5
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 7
• Human rights law 2
• Human rights monitors 2
• Humanitarian assistance 19
• Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
• Hutus 6
• IDP camps 3
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigration Detention 1
• Impunity 18
• Independence of judiciary 1
• Internal armed conflict 55
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 63
• International armed conflict 2
• International courts and tribunals 8
• International criminal law 4
• Location of camps 1
• Mass exodus 1
• Migrants 1
• Military law 1
• Military operations 8
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 1
• Opposition 1
• Orderly return 1
• Peace agreements 5
• Peace process 5
• Peacekeeping 77
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Police 2
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 6
• Political situation 23
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Prison or detention conditions 3
• Protection of camps 1
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 31
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Reconciliation 1
• Refugee camps 8
• Refugees 32
• Reintegration 1
• Return conditions 3
• Returnees 6
• Right to development 1
• Right to food 2
• Right to health 1
• Right to justice 2
• Right to liberty and security 2
• Right to seek asylum 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 8
• Rwandans 1
• SGBV 70
• Sanctions 4
• Security forces 8
• Security situation 83
• Small arms 1
• Social group discrimination 1
• Terrorism 3
• Trafficking in persons 1
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 3
• Voluntary repatriation 5
• War crimes 17
• Women's rights 7
• Women-at-risk 2

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• 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
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• United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO)
• United States Department of State - Congo (Kinshasa)
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