Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Turmoil in the run-up to elections

DRC is experiencing a plethora of human rights problems. In the east of the country, the national army and the UN peacekeeping mission are not able to deal effectively with the violence still perpetrated by some armed groups – a legacy of the bloody civil war that ravaged the country. The human rights situation has also deteriorated in the run-up to the general elections, which are expected to be postponed; demands from the political opposition, civil society and mass media for timely elections have been met with heavy repression from the government

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Coherence in the EU’s External Human Rights Policy: The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo http://www.europeansources.info/record/coherence-in-the-eus-external-human-rights-policy-the-case-of-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo/

EU Relations with Democratic Republic of Congo http://eeas.europa.eu/congo_kinshasa/index_en.htm

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