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Legal and structural obstacles persist in bringing justice by victims of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers, the International Peace Institute (IPI) reported Tuesday. The report emphasizes the need for a more unified and victim-centered approach to address sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and sexual harassment (SH) within UN peace operations. While SEA committed against host [...]

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Amnesty International on Wednesday called for an investigation into three senior officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for their alleged involvement in possible crimes against humanity during a violent crackdown on a demonstration in Goma city last year. The report, titled “Operation Keba: Massacre by the Army in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Goma [...]

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The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Older Persons officially entered into force on Monday. This milestone follows the deposit of the 15th instrument of ratification by AU Member States, as required by Article 26 of the protocol. Adopted by the Assembly of African Heads of State [...]

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) Office of the Prosecutor announced Monday that it will reopen criminal investigations into political violence in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC said that his decision followed a referral from the DRC to the ICC, requesting that the [...]

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk delivered a speech on Tuesday condemning the state of prison and detention systems in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In his address, directed at the DRC president, Türk discusses the deterioration of detention conditions in the country. Notably, he highlights that crimes are being perpetrated within [...]

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Congressional watchdog US Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded on Monday that no concrete evidence supports the effectiveness of the 2012 Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) conflict minerals disclosure rule in reducing violence within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The investigation revealed that the SEC rule did not demonstrate a decrease in the frequency or [...]

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Amnesty International urges the international community on Monday to hold the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi, accountable for violations of human rights. The group accused the DRC president of “ignoring the continuing deterioration of human rights under his own government” in his latest speech to the UN General Assembly [...]

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Thursday detailing incidents of civilian atrocities in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) amid ongoing military confrontations involving Rwandan forces and the M23 rebel group. As these forces move closer to the town of Sake, local residents and more than half a million displaced individuals [...]

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