Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo – Court started on Tuesday afternoon, a day-and-a-half late. The three-day mobile court hearings focused on sexual violence cases began with the first defendant ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has reached a new milestone in the modernization of its judicial system with the ...

We are writing to offer several key recommendations with regards to the draft legislation on the creation of specialized mixed chambers within the national judicial system of the Democratic Republic ...

Twenty-five years since the six-day war in Kisangani in Democratic Republic of Congo in which hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands more injured, victims are still waiting for truth, justice ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has formed a new advisory council that includes senior war crimes lawyers from the US and Europe to support its push for accountability for atrocities committed ...

Human Rights Watch said the recent conviction of just two Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers out of a total 39 tried for a mass rape in 2012 points to deeper failings in the justice system. The ...

DRC: Neglected Congolese victims deserve justice now Crimes under international law, including rape and murder, continue to be committed by the Congolese army and armed groups in the east of the ...

To whomever wants to listen to the voice of conscience in the Democratic Republic of Congo, be they from the DRC or other countries, it is clear that these voices of conscience emanate from the ...

Rape survivors gather to meet Amnesty International mission delegates, Kindu, Maniema province. Two years ago, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took the unprecedented step of extending a ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo must bring to justice those responsible for the murder a human rights defender five years ago, Amnesty International and Minority Rights Group International ...

In a scathing report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, a senior U.N. official accuses the Democratic Republic of Congo of turning a blind eye to systematic and gross violations of human rights ...