Human Rights Watch 4 October 2012 Congolese authorities have done virtually nothing to identify or bring to justice the killers of seven humanitarian workers in an ethnically motivated attack a year ago in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. On October 4, 2011, members of the Mai Mai Yakutumba, a largely ethnic Babembe armed group, [...]
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DR Congo: Children bear brunt of conflict in the east
IRIN – the UN news service 25 September 2012 Children in the Kivu provinces of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are not only getting caught in the crossfire of the area’s ongoing violence, but also facing health risks, threats of forced recruitment by local and foreign militias, and interrupted education, say officials. “Children are [...]
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Heading slowly backwards
RefWorld, 12th September 2012 Between 2004 and 2006, the release of tens of thousands of children from the national army and non-state armed groups marked a high point in government, UN and NGO efforts in the DRC to recover child soldiers and return them to their home communities. Their release was part of a larger [...]
DR Congo: Security Council reiterates demand on renegade soldiers to cease hostilities
UN News Agency 2nd August 2012 Available at UNHCR RefWorld The Security Council today reiterated its demand that the group of renegade soldiers known as the 23 March Movement (M23) immediately cease efforts to destabilize the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and voiced their deep concern at the worsening humanitarian [...]
DRC: UN refugee agency condemns ‘rampant abuse’ of civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
RefWorld UN News Agency 31 July 2012 The United Nations refugee agency today condemned rampant abuse against civilians in the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), amid fighting that has uprooted nearly half a million people over the past four months. “Our staff and partners in Uganda, Rwanda and eastern [...]
DRC: Refugee influx to Uganda prompts government call for regional talks
UN News Network 9th July 2012 KAMPALA, 9 July 2012 (IRIN) – Uganda is “overwhelmed” by the current influx of Congolese refugees fleeing renewed fighting in North Kivu Province in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and is calling for an emergency meeting of countries in the Great Lakes Region to work out a [...]
DR Congo: A commentary on the May 2012 UKBA Operational Guidance Note
A commentary on the May 2012 Democratic Republic of Congo Operational Guidance Note Published by Still Human Still Here June 2012 This commentary identifies what the ‘Still Human Still Here’ coalition considers to be the main inconsistencies and omissions between the currently available country of origin information (COI) and case law on the Democratic Republic [...]
DRC: freedom from fear. The treatment of refused Congolese asylum seekers
Laura Clarke, Consultancy Africa Intelligence 4 June 2012 The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been the focus of substantial international and regional attention throughout recent years. The political turmoil surrounding the presidential elections of 2006 and 2011,won by the current president Joseph Kabila, have posed a number of questions regarding the theoretical connections between [...]
DR Congo : Amnesty International Annual Report 2012
Amnesty International Annual Report 2012: the state of the world’s human rights 23 May 2012 Impunity for crimes under international law continued in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), despite some limited progress. Government security forces and armed groups committed scores of human rights violations in eastern DRC. Nine soldiers from the Congolese armed [...]
DR Congo: Operational Guidance Note, UK Border Agency
Update: also see the June 2012 Still Human Still Here commentary on this OGN UKBA Country Specific Asylum Policy Operational guidance notes (OGNs), use country of origin information (COI) reports and other sources to provide a brief summary for use by UKBA decision-makers. Caseowners must not base decisions on the country of origin information in OGN guidance; [...]
