United Nations Urged to Restore Human Rights Monitor in Democratic Republic of Congo
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Published: January 2, 2010
United Nations Urged to Restore Human Rights Monitor in Democratic Republic of Congo
Seyi Oduyela/Washington, DC
An appeal, by campaigners around the world, has called for the UN to restore the post of UN rights monitor in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The signatories said they were appalled by the alleged violations committed by the Congolese government in recent weeks. The violations include summary executions, torture, arbitrary arrests and rape. The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva abolished the Congo monitor in March 2008 at the request of the Congolese government, which was backed by the developing countries on the council. Earlier this week the international medical relief charity, Medecins sans Frontieres, named violence against civilians in the east of the DRC as number one on its list of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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