DRC-Human Rights

The UN joint office for human rights concerned about human rights challenges in the DRC

The UN Joint Office for Human Rights has expressed its concerns about several human rights challenges the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing.

The office has mentioned some progress but emphasized that a lot is still needed to be done and said it should be engaged with the government in order to overcome those challenges.

The situation is becoming even worse as the Democratic Republic of Congo heads towards presidential and parliamentary elections that are expected in the country in November this year, although things are still needing to be clarified since the independent National Electoral Commission has said it won’t be able to organize those elections on time.

Among the numerous human rights challenges the director of the UN joint office for human rights in the DRC, Jose Maria Aranaz has mentioned are the protection of civilians against tens of armed groups operating in the East of this country, sexual violence, illegal trafficking of minerals by local and foreign armed groups and more.

On the other side, there are some special groups that are more vulnerable and need to be given more attention as far as protection of human rights is concerned, according to their special social situation.

Those are indeed,’’ the people who deserve a better support from the society and the whole international community since they are traditionally marginalized’’, Jose Maria Aranaz said.

Meanwhile, the UN Joint office for human rights has reported a decrease in human rights abuse for last February with 332 cases comparatively to January when it documented 411 human rights violations.

Jean Noel Ba-Mweze