Informes

Between 30 January and 2 March 2009, 880 children associated with armed forces and groups in North Kivu were demobilised by the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC). At the weekly MONUC press conference of…

Tunis, le 25 février 2009 - Le Conseil d'administration du Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a approuvé un don de 14 millions d'unités de compte (UC *), soit US $ 20,9 millions de dollars, pour aider…

KEY DEVELOPMENTS - On February 16, international media sources reported that the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had extended the mandate for Ugandan military presence in DRC until the end of February. However, at this time any…

The whole world celebrated International Children's Day on 12 February 2008 with the theme: "Stop children's recruitment and their use by armed forces and groups." DR Congo alone hosts 10% of the 300,000 child soldiers in the world. At the…

Summary The present report, which has been prepared pursuant to Security Council resolution 1612 (2005), covers the period from 1 August 2007 to 30 December 2008. It is the third report on children in the armed conflict in the Sudan to…

On 4 February, MONUC's Child Protection Section was able to separate a total of 28 children associated with armed groups in North Kivu within the framework of the accelerated integration of those groups into the Armed Forces of the…

Sir John Holmes Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs New York, New York Goma, February 6, 2009 Dear Sir, On behalf of the Congo Advocacy Coalition, a group of 100 aid and human rights…

North Kivu: Joint civilian protection teams have been deployed alongside Blue Helmets in several MONUC strategic bases in North Kivu. Early this week MONUC started deploying civilian protection teams in several strategic bases of its peacekeeping forces in North Kivu, notably in…

Government Should Move Quickly to Stem Rights Violations (New York, February 4, 2009) - The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo should urgently carry out new recommendations from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to protect children…

Kinshasa, January 25, 2009: Alan Doss, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in the DRC appeals to armed groups to release children in their ranks. "The process of integration should not be used as pretext to recruit or…