News | NGO
| UN mission speaks out after human rights defender is kidnapped | |
UN News - August 31, 2010 | |
 | The United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has expressed deep concern after the apparent abduction of a human rights defender who had spoken out against alleged rights violations by members of the military. |
| UN Security Council calls for urgent action over mass DR Congo rape | |
BBC News - August 26, 2010 | |
 | The UN has said everything possible must be done to prevent atrocities like the recent rape of more than 150 women and children in the DR Congo. In an emergency session of the Security Council, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Congolese authorities had to fully investigate what had happened. The Council also said peacekeepers in the area should have done more to protect local people from rebels. |
| 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. |
| UN: Risks Increasing For Humanitarian Aid Workers | |
VOA News - August 19, 2010 | |
 | In observing this year's World Humanitarian Day, the United Nations aims to raise public awareness of the risks run by the men and women who provide aid to victims of conflict and natural disasters around the world. The day also honors humanitarian workers who have lost their lives or been injured while on the job. |
| Opposition, NGOs Vow to Join Forces to Fight 'Erosion of Democracy' | |
Radio Okapi - July 31, 2010 | |
 | During a meeting held on Friday in Kinshasa, members of the political opposition and human rights NGOs vowed to join forces to fight what they called the erosion of democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The two sides stressed the need to fight together to head off the clamp down on freedom of expression and freedom of the press they are facing these days under the current authorities. |
| UN experts welcome steps taken in wake of murder of Floribert Chebeya | |
UN News - June 9, 2010 | |
 | A group of United Nations experts today welcomed the suspension of the chief of the national police of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the arrest of several officers in the investigation into last week’s murder of a prominent human rights defender. In a statement issued last week, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted that the Congolese interior ministry has ordered the State security service to investigate the death of Mr. Chebeya, stressing that the probe must be “thorough, transparent and independent, with full respect for due process and rule of law.” |
| 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. |
| UN report: Vast International Network Helping Rwandan Hutu Rebels in Eastern Congo | |
Congo News Agency - November 27, 2009 | |
 | A report by a group of experts, mandated by the United Nations Security Council to investigate on the situation in eastern Congo, has found that a vast international network that spans more than 25 countries is helping the Rwandan Hutu rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) continue their atrocities in the region. |
| Congo Government Accuses Human Rights Watch of Hidden Agenda | |
Congo News Agency - July 5, 2009 | |
 | Government spokesman Lambert Mende said that the NGO seems to have found an “easy target” in the Congolese Government. He questioned its “tendency to shoot on ambulances”. He added that it’s “easy for Human Rights Watch to attack a country like ours”. And that, “Human Rights Watch should be applauded for its courage to always shoot at the weak”. |
| 63 Leading NGOs Press for Urgent Implementation of Goma Peace Agreement | |
Human Rights Watch - April 23, 2008 | |
 | The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the armed groups, and international parties to the Goma peace agreement should urgently implement the accord and end the horrific suffering of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children facing brutal violence and deadly diseases in eastern Congo, 63 international and Congolese human rights and aid groups said in a joint statement today. |
