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A 2006 report by the African Association for the Defence of Human Rights prepared for that committee provides a broad overview of issues confronting women in the DRC in law and in daily life. [ 38 ] In 2015, diaspora figures such as Emmanuel Weyi began to comment on the plight affecting women, and the need to make their progress a key issue in ...
Violence against women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Women's rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
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Women's rights in the Republic of the Congo (1 C) Pages in category "Human rights in the Republic of the Congo" This category contains only the following page.
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.
The artisanal mining industry in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is rife with forced and child labor, unreported deaths and human rights abuses, writes academic and modern slavery researcher ...
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 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.