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15 Aug 2004, 9:40 am
The UN Security Council will hold a closed-door meeting Sunday to discuss the situation in Burundi after at least 150 Tutsi Congolese refugees were killed Friday night at a refugee camp on Burundi's border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
18 May 2011, 1:54 pm
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon [official website] and the UN Security Council [official website] called Wednesday for continued reforms in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [JURIST news archive] in order to strengthen the country's rule of law. [read post]
25 May 2011, 1:59 pm
[JURIST] Rwandan genocide suspect and former Hutu militia leader Bernard Munyagishari has been arrested [press release] in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] announced on Wednesday. [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 11:22 am
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [official website] expressed concerns [press release] on Wednesday over the fighting between Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) army and the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebel forces, which has caused tens of thousands of people in the eastern DRC region to become intentionally displaced. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 8:49 am
[JURIST] The UN Joint Human Rights Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (UNJHRO) [official website] released a report [text, DOC] Wednesday detailing widespread sexual violence committed by government forces and rebel groups between January 2010 and December 2013 in the DRC. [read post]
19 Aug 2004, 11:12 am
The defendants say they were on their way to a job in the Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
7 Feb 2014, 7:22 am
[JURIST] The National Network of Congolese Human Rights NGOs on Wednesday a new Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder] law providing amnesty for acts of war committed as far back as 2006. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 5:13 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Monday upheld [ICC fact sheet] the conviction and 14-year prison sentence of former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo [BBC profile]. [read post]
21 Dec 2009, 10:26 am
[JURIST] The UN on Monday called for leaders of the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) [BBC backgrounder] to be apprehended [UN News Centre report] for war crimes in southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between September 2008 and June 2009. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 10:34 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] on Friday issued a condemned the recent mass rapes [text] in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive], calling for justice for the victims. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 12:39 pm
Mbarushimana, former leader of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) [GlobalSecurity backgrounder], is charged with 13 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder] in 2009. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 8:33 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Monday urged Rwanda [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to stop assisting an accused war criminal [press release] in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website]. [read post]
1 Jun 2012, 10:40 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Thursday urged [press release] the government of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to ensure justice for the victims of the recently increasing violence. [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 10:03 am
[JURIST] A delegation from the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] traveled [press release] Sunday to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to initiate a five-day plan to discourage violent protests ignited by the nation's postponed election. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 10:19 am
Mbarushimana, former leader of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) [GlobalSecurity backgrounder], is accused of committing war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder] in 2009. [read post]
16 Aug 2004, 3:14 am
During an emergency meeting on the massacre of Congolese civilians at a refugee camp in Burundi, the UN Security Council adopted a Presidential Statement calling on Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo "to cooperate actively so that the perpetrators and those responsible for these crimes [can] be brought to justice without delay. [read post]
5 Jan 2008, 8:20 am
[JURIST] UN rights investigators with the United Nations Human Rights Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (UNHRO) have documented serious human rights violations committed in the DRC following post-electoral violence in the capital Kinshasa in March 2007, including summary execution of civilians and excessive force leading to at least 300 deaths. [read post]
27 Feb 2015, 8:10 am
Ngudjolo was acquitted in December 2012 of leading a 2003 attack on the village of Bogoro in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive], where Ngudjolo and his fighters allegedly destroyed the village, raping and hacking... [read post]
21 Jun 2017, 8:21 am
Kasai province is located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and has been the subject of UN scrutiny for three months. [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 3:04 am
[JURIST] The Paris Court of Appeals on Thursday refused to hear an embezzlement case brought by the anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI) [official website] against the late president of Gabon, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the president of Equatorial Guinea. [read post]
