Rebel leader presumed responsible for mass rape arrested | |
UN News - October 05, 2010 | |
![]() | United Nations peacekeepers and Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo today seized one of the rebel leaders suspected of being behind the mass rape of more than 300 civilians two months ago in the country’s east. |
UN DR Congo Report Exposes Grave Crimes | |
Human Rights Watch - October 01, 2010 | |
![]() | On October 1, 2010, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights published the report of its human rights mapping exercise on Congo. United Nations members should make a concerted international effort to initiate judicial investigations into grave human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo documented by the UN and bring those responsible to justice. |
UN says peacekeepers 'failed' DR Congo rape victims | |
BBC News - September 07, 2010 | |
![]() | UN peacekeepers have "failed" the victims of mass rape in eastern DR Congo, a senior UN official has said. Atul Khare told the Security Council that the scale of systematic rape by armed rebels was far worse than feared. Atul Khare told the Security Council that the scale of systematic rape by armed rebels was far worse than feared. |
UN Defends Inaction on Mass Rapes in Eastern Congo, Government Missing in Action | |
Congo News Agency - August 26, 2010 | |
![]() | The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) is on the defensive since the NGO International Medical Corps revealed early this week that rebels from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), and members of a local Mai Mai militia, raped at least 154 women in North Kivu, a few kilometers from a MONUSCO base. |