Country: Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
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Putting the interests of local populations at the heart of natural resource exploitation: Transparency, accountability and protection of rights
ASF has been active in the field of natural resource governance since 2018 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Its activities in this area are mainly concentrated in 3 regions, in the provinces of Ituri and Haut Uélé around the mining sector and in the province of Central Kongo around the hydrocarbon extraction sector.…
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Press release: International Court of Justice Ruling in the DRC v. Uganda Case: Ensuring a Victim-Focused and Effective Implementation of the Reparations Order
On 9 February 2022, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Uganda to pay $325 million in reparations to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for damages to persons, property and natural resources resulting from Uganda’s military intervention in the wars in the DRC between 1998-2003. This follows on from the 2005 judgment in…
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Being detained in the Makala prison during the pandemic : An interview with the NGO PRODHOJ
Between March and September 2021, PRODHOJ, with the support of Avocats Sans Frontières, carried out monitoring work to evaluate the conditions of detention and access to justice of detainees in the central prison of Kinshasa, known as ‘Makala’, in the context of the COVID19 pandemic. In this interview, Samuel Atweka and Gysy Uma, both members…
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