News | Navi Pillay
| DR Congo Asks Rwanda to Turn Over M23 Rebel Leaders | |
Congo News Agency - July 26, 2013 | |
 | DR Congo’s government said on Friday it has sent three international arrest warrants to Rwanda against former M23 rebel leader Jean-Marie Runiga and commanders Baudouin Ngaruye, Eric Badege and Innocent Zimurinda. |
| U.S. Sanctions M23 Rebel Leaders | |
U.S. Department of the Treasury - December 18, 2012 | |
 | Baudoin Ngaruye and Innocent Kaina are being designated for their involvement in the recruitment and use of child soldiers in the conflict in the DRC and for being leaders of a group that is impeding the disarmament, repatriation, or resettlement of combatants. |
| U.S. Treasury Department Sanctions M23 Rebel Leader | |
U.S. Department of the Treasury - November 13, 2012 | |
| "Sultani Makenga is responsible for extensive atrocities against the population in the DRC, including the recruitment of child soldiers, and campaigns of violence against civilians," said Adam J. Szubin, the Director of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. |
| M23 Rebels Committing War Crimes | |
Human Rights Watch - September 11, 2012 | |
| Rwandan officials may be complicit in war crimes through their continued military assistance to M23 forces, Human Rights Watch said. The Rwandan army has deployed its troops to eastern Congo to directly support the M23 rebels in military operations. |
| UN releases D.R. Congo report listing 10 years of atrocities, identifying justice options | |
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - October 1, 2010 | |
 | The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released Friday a 550-page report listing 617 of the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law over a ten-year period by both state and non-state actors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
| UN human rights chief announces release date for DR Congo Mapping Report | |
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - September 2, 2010 | |
| The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay announced Thursday that the report of the Mapping Exercise documenting the most serious human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1993 and 2003 will be made public on 1 October 2010. |
| Top UN officials urge inquiry into killing of Congolese human rights activist | |
UN News Centre - June 3, 2010 | |
 | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston and Alan Doss, the head of the UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), have all issued statements condemning the murder of Floribert Chebeya Bahizire. |
| Human rights violations spiralling out of control in DR Congo, warns UN official | |
UN News - November 27, 2008 | |
 | The top United Nations human rights official today urged the international community to take urgent action to stop the deteriorating cycle of sexual violence, bloodshed and destruction in the war-torn eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). |
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