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1 Sep 2023, 1:39 pm
The UN announced Friday that 43 people were killed during anti-UN demonstrations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). [read post]
19 Oct 2023, 6:40 am
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) High Court in Kinshasa-Gombe turned down a request to release journalist Stanis Bujakera from detention on Tuesday. [read post]
14 Dec 2023, 1:23 pm
Moïse Katumbi, a prominent political figure and candidate in the upcoming presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), suspended two campaign events following a violent incident at an election rally on Wednesday. [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 12:52 pm
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed a child labor case Tuesday against technology companies and refused to hold them accountable for their alleged support of the use of children in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 5:52 pm
Boston-based, Program Officer position: http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/about/jobs/program-officer-program-on-sexual-violence-in-conflict-zones.html DRC Coordinator, based in Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/about/jobs/drc-coordinator.html The University of Dayton School of Law is seeking candidates for the position of adjunct professor of law for its collaboration with the University of Dayton Human Rights Center. [read post]
10 Jul 2024, 9:38 am
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) informed the UN Security Council on Monday that phase one of the departure of the UN-DRC peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, had been completed on June 25, but the DRC’s representative stressed that the next withdrawal phase will be addressed when conditions permit, with no further information on the timeline for the next two phases. [read post]
30 Sep 2024, 1:05 pm
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. [read post]
7 Sep 2018, 11:41 am
A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [official website] expressed concern [briefing] Friday over the “violent suppression of peaceful protests” by opposing political parties and the police in anticipation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s upcoming election. [read post]
30 Nov 2007, 5:53 am
Ngarhodjim)The Legal System and Research of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): An Overview (Dunia Zongwe, FrancoisButedi and Clement Phebe)Researching Namibian Law and the Namibian Legal System(Geraldine Mwanza Geraldo and Isabella Skeffers) [read post]
19 Aug 2024, 6:05 am
After originally reinstating sanctions for engaging in “extensive public corruption” in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) against Israeli businessman Dan Gertler in March 2021, which had been lifted in the final days of the Trump administration, it appears the Biden administration may soon lift the sanctions against the mining tycoon, apparently in order to secure U.S. access to precious metals in the DRC. [read post]
18 Jun 2015, 6:45 am
"In the past five years, at least 15 conflicts have erupted or reignited: Eight in Africa (Côte d'Ivoire, Central African Republic, Libya, Mali, northeastern Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and this year in Burundi); three in the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, and Yemen); one in Europe (Ukraine) and three in Asia (Kyrgyzstan, and in several areas of Myanmar and Pakistan). [read post]
23 Jul 2015, 12:30 am
Central African Republic: The Spotlight is Gone, the Crisis Continues (Refugees International, July 2015) [text]Displacement and Housing, Land and Property Disputes in Puntland (Norwegian Refugee Council, July 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]Operation Mbata ya Bakolo: Mass Expulsions of Foreign Nationals in the Republic of Congo (Amnesty International, July 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]‘Refugee Artists’ or ‘Artists Who Happened to Become Refugees’? [read post]
14 Dec 2008, 4:36 pm
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a rape survivor is an outcast, blamed and shamed by local tradition and religion for the only crime pinned squarely on the victim. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 5:00 am
The court concluded that Section 13(p) and Rule 13p-1 violated the First Amendment to the extent that they required regulated entities to report to the SEC and to disclose on their websites that any of their products were not found to be Democratic Republic of Congo conflict free. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 10:12 am
Tried and convicted in The Hague, Katanga was sent back to his native Democratic Republic of Congo to serve the remainder of his ICC-mandated sentence. [read post]
28 Feb 2020, 12:45 pm
Journal articles:"Behind the Scenes of South Africa’s Asylum Procedure: A Qualitative Study on Long-term Asylum-Seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 20 Feb. 2020 [open access]"Causes and Impacts of Internal Displacement in Ethiopia," African Journal of Social Work, vol. 9, no. 2 (2019) [open access]"Has South Africa Committed in Good Faith to Article 34 of the UN Refugee Convention,… [read post]
14 Aug 2019, 12:00 pm
The Case of Congolese Refugees in Rwanda," Comparative Migration Studies, 7:33 (Dec. 2019) [open access]"Impact of Internally Displaced Persons on Forest and Vegetation of Jere LGA, Borno State, Nigeria," Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, vol. 23, no. 5 (2019) [open access]Revised Regional Protection and Solutions Strategic Framework: Responding to the Protection Crisis in the Lake Chad Basin, 2019-2020 (Protection Cluster, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]UNHCR… [read post]
28 Nov 2017, 1:30 pm
Burundian Refugee Returns: Joint Response Plan, Sept. 2017 - Dec. 2018 (UN Country Team in Burundi, Nov. 2017) [text]Communiqué Final: Réunion Tripartite Congo-Rwanda-UNHCR du 3 au 4 Avril 2017 – Kigali [text]- Note: Rwandan refugee status will end 31 December 2017. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 7:12 am
Via Sean Flynn and the Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest comes an announcement particularly relevant for our readers and friends in Congo DRC, Egypt, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Libya, Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Sudan*. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 8:40 am
Two Canadian lawyers have been awarded Chevening scholarships to pursue an LLM from a university in the United Kingdom.Megan Kammerer is currently completing a fellowship at The Hague with the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, which advocates for women’s rights through the International Criminal Court and domestic mechanisms.Kammerer has been working with the organization’s legal team since July 2012 to look at court cases from a gender perspective, produce an annual… [read post]
