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The Republic of Congo gained independence from French Equatorial Africa in 1960. It was a one-party Marxist–Leninist state from 1969 to 1991. Multi-party elections have been held since 1992, although a democratically elected government was ousted in the 1997 civil war and President Denis Sassou Nguesso has ruled for 26 of the past 36 years.
A desperate search for survival – women and children as young as nine years old spend hours each day digging at a cobalt mine in Kolwezi City in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the human rights record has remained considerably poor [when?], and serious abuses have been committed. Unlawful killings, disappearances, torture, rape, and arbitrary arrest and detention by security forces increased during the year, and the transitional government took few actions to punish harsh people.
The long history of violence has led to a culture of desensitization, lacking respect for international norms of human rights, and inadequate education. [9] Today, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, particularly the eastern region of the country, is known as the rape capital of the world. [7]
The DRC Mapping Exercise Report, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1993-2003 UN Mapping Report, was a report by the United Nations [1] [2] within the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the wake of the armed aggressions and war which took place between March 1993 and June 2003. [3]
In 2018 and 2019, Congo reported the highest levels of sexual violence in the world. [75] According to the Human Rights Watch and the New York University-based Congo Research Group, armed troops in DRC's eastern Kivu region have killed over 1,900 civilians and kidnapped at least 3,300 people since June 2017 to June 2019. [92]
Information collected by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo from January 2010 to December 2013 shows “3,635 incidences of sexual violence (rape and gang rape) by armed groups and state agents.” [8] Within those cases, 73% of those victims were women, 25% were girls, and 2% were ...
Women's rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.