Perenco: The social and environmental impact of the French oil company’s activities abroad

Perenco has been in the news for several weeks. An environmental investigation carried out by EIF (Environmental Investigative Forum) with the support of the media Investigate Europe and Disclose has led to the publication of damning information on the French company’s activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And the NGOs Sherpa and Friends of…

Promote the full and effective realisation of people’s rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Funding: Belgian development cooperation Duration: 5 years (January 2022 > December 2026)

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.…

(French) Press release – One year after the forced demolitions of their homes, the victims of Mege village are still waiting for answers to their demands

Annual report 2021

(French) PRESS RELEASE – Avocats Sans Frontières and Southern Africa Resource Watch organise a round table on the governance of the oil sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo

(French) Press release – Ezekere case: Heavy sentences against the accused and individual and collective reparations granted to 254 civil parties, a new positive development in Congolese jurisprudence

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…

(French) Report – The governance of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The case of the mining sector in the province of Haut Uele: Participatory survey with communities in the Kibali and Mangbutu sectors

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…

Country: Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)