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9 Feb 2011, 9:00 am
Elections - On January 20, 2011, revisions of certain articles of the 2006 Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were adopted in Kinshasa. [read post]
14 Nov 2012, 10:12 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
MAKENGA, Sultani); DOB 25 Dec 1973; POB Rutshuru, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Colonel (individual) [DRCONGO]. [read post]
9 Feb 2016, 9:38 am by Taylor Isaac
A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] said Monday that at least 21 people died [press release] in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in attacks aimed at Hutus, with 40 more people being wounded and dozens of houses burned. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 9:00 am
Mining and mineral resources - On September 11, 2010, Joseph Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ordered that mining be suspended in three provinces in the eastern part of the country, North Kivu, South Kivu, and Maniema.... [read post]
22 May 2009, 9:00 am
War - On May 7, 2009, President Joseph Kabila Kabange of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a law that grants amnesty for certain acts of war and insurrection committed in the country. [read post]
18 Dec 2012, 2:07 pm by InternationalLaw Blogger
Preliminary findings by United Nations investigators have documented at least 126 rapes and the killing of two civilians – one a minor – during a probe into human rights violations in a part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)... [read post]
19 Jul 2013, 12:34 pm
Attorney Michele Jackson is photographed on one of her trips to an orphanage in the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo). [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 3:22 am by Jacob Katz Cogan
Cecile Aptel (United States Institute of Peace) has posted an ASIL Insight on The UN Mapping Report Documenting Serious Crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [read post]
3 Feb 2007, 8:18 am
[JURIST] The head of the UN Mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) [official website] expressed concern Saturday about increased human rights violations by security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo [JURIST news archive], particularly those in the remote eastern portions of the country. [read post]
31 Oct 2003, 2:10 pm
Magistrates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have begun an indefinite nationwide strike, demanding better pay and working conditions, [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 9:00 am
War crimes - On October 19, 2010, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it was charging a former official of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with war crimes. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 5:39 am
Security Council voted this week to extend for another year and expand the arms embargo and related sanctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which have been in place since 2003. [read post]
25 Sep 2013, 9:52 am by InternationalLaw Blogger
Progress has been made in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in putting in place a legal regime to combat impunity for human rights violations, but the rights situation in the east of the country continues to deteriorate, according... [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 9:00 am
Human rights - On September 28, 2010, Margot Wallstrand#337;m, the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, began a mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to organize a U.N. response to the mass rapes in... [read post]
17 May 2011, 9:00 am
War crimes - On May 4, 2011, the trial of two men from Rwanda accused of ordering others to carry out massacres and multiple rapes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) got underway in Stuttgart, Germany. [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 8:49 am
  The client was  a national from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who had been arrested, detained, and tortured by the DRC government. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 9:59 am
“The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, has been ordered by a high court judge to suspend deportations of failed asylum seekers to the Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 5:32 pm by Reproductive Rights
Weakness, by Jeffrey Gettleman: LUVUNGI, Democratic Republic of Congo — Four armed men barged into Anna Mburano’s hut, slapped the children and threw them down. [read post]
18 Aug 2005, 6:29 am
[JURIST] A majority of jurors in a Republic of Congo court have acquitted 15 senior level military and police officials accused of orchestrating the 1999 disappearance of over 300 refugees returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Congolese city Brazzaville. [read post]
20 Jan 2004, 12:04 pm
In international law news Tuesday, the Democratic Republic of Congo may invoke the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation in order to boost its case against Rwanda at the [read post]