Democratic Republic of the Congo

• 1951 Refugee Convention 1
• Abduction 10
• Access to procedures 4
• Access to water 2
• Airports 2
• Animist 4
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 32
• Armed attacks on camps 2
• Armed forces / Military 12
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 36
• Asylum-seekers 15
• Batwa 8
• Berber 1
• Border controls 3
• Border crossers 1
• Cabinda 1
• Catholic 7
• Ceasefire 1
• Child labour 19
• Child prostitution 13
• Child soldiers 32
• Children's rights 34
• Children-at-risk 15
• Christian 7
• Civil and political rights 1
• Civilian character of asylum 2
• Combatants / Former combatants 3
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 6
• Conflict resolution 2
• Conflict situation 4
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Copts 1
• Corruption 9
• Crimes against humanity 4
• Criminal justice 10
• Dalit 1
• Death penalty 9
• Demobilization / Disarmament 5
• Democracy 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 10
• Disabled persons 8
• Disappeared persons 22
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 21
• Domestic violence 1
• Drug trafficking 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 14
• Effective protection 1
• Elections 16
• Equality before the law 2
• Ethnic cleansing 1
• Evangelical 2
• Expulsion 3
• Extradition 1
• Extrajudicial executions 36
• Extreme poverty 4
• False documents 1
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 2
• Forced labour 32
• Forced marriage 2
• Forced relocation 3
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 37
• Freedom of assembly and association 26
• Freedom of conscience 1
• Freedom of expression 85
• Freedom of information 25
• Freedom of movement 36
• Freedom of religion 33
• Freedom of speech 16
• Gender discrimination 18
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Generalized violence 1
• Good governance 1
• Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
• Group / Prima facie determination 10
• HIV and AIDS 2
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 8
• Human rights activists 28
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 35
• Human rights monitors 6
• Humanitarian assistance 2
• Hutus 5
• Illegal entry 5
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
• Immigration Detention 14
• Impunity 18
• Income-generating projects 2
• Independence of judiciary 8
• Indigenous persons 9
• Internal armed conflict 12
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 28
• International courts and tribunals 11
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 3
• International protection 2
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Jehovah's Witness 6
• Jew 2
• Kasaians 1
• Kikuyu 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 4
• Location of camps 1
• Mbororo 1
• Military courts 1
• Military operations 3
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 12
• Minorities 19
• Minority rights 6
• Mormon 7
• Muslim 7
• Naturalization 1
• Nomads 1
• Nuba 1
• Opposition 1
• Oromo 1
• Orthodox Christian 7
• Pastoralists 1
• Peace agreements 1
• Peacekeeping 10
• Persecution based on nationality 3
• Persecution based on political opinion 6
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 2
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
• Police 11
• Political parties 1
• Political situation 4
• Pre-trial detention 10
• Prison or detention conditions 17
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 11
• Protestant 7
• Public health 17
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 3
• Refoulement 7
• Refugee camps 16
• Refugee identity documents 15
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 16
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 15
• Refugees 25
• Registration 1
• Reintegration 1
• Rejected asylum-seekers 6
• Rejection at border 2
• Religious discrimination 19
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
• Reservation 4
• Resettlement 1
• Residence permits / Residency 8
• Returnees 1
• Right to education 23
• Right to employment 17
• Right to food 4
• Right to health 2
• Right to justice 4
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to self-determination 2
• Roma 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 7
• SGBV 51
• Security forces 21
• Security situation 15
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group discrimination 13
• Stateless persons 1
• Terrorism 6
• Threats / Intimidation 1
• Torture 15
• Trafficking in persons 38
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Travel documents 1
• Tutsis 6
• Urban refugees 7
• Voluntary repatriation 11
• War crimes 7
• Women's rights 23
• Women-at-risk 13
• Work permits 11
• Zulus 1

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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