Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Acts of persecution 1
• Age discrimination 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 1
• Armed forces / Military 6
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 3
• Asylum-seekers 2
• Banyamulenge 1
• Bemba 1
• Child soldiers 2
• Children's rights 1
• Children-at-risk 1
• Citizenship law 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Conflict situation 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Corruption 3
• Coup d'état 1
• Crimes against humanity 1
• Criminal justice 1
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Denial of refugee status 1
• Disappeared persons 1
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 1
• Elections 2
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 2
• Good governance 1
• HIV and AIDS 1
• Harmful traditional practices 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 2
• Human rights law 1
• Immigration Detention 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
• Mental health 1
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 1
• Opposition 4
• Persecution based on political opinion 5
• Persecution of family members 1
• Police 3
• Political groups 7
• Political parties 8
• Political situation 9
• Prison or detention conditions 4
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
• Public health 3
• Refugees 2
• Rejected asylum-seekers 4
• Return conditions 3
• Returnees 3
• SGBV 3
• Security forces 2
• Security situation 1
• Social group discrimination 1
• Torture 1
• Trafficking in persons 1
• Tutsis 2
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• War crimes 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