In the shadow of ongoing violence in the DRC, women’s lives are forever changed by decades of war. Yet amid such horrors the stories of Ndarubyariye taking to the battlefield, Uwimana protecting her ...

The space featured a photo exhibit of images captured by the Mamas, 50 internally displaced women from the Bulengo displacement camp in Eastern DRC. The women have been forced to flee their homes ...

While the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the DRC is in the process of adoption by the Human Rights Council, the signatory organisations urge the Congolese authorities to take urgent measures to ...

The DRC has a record number of more than 7.8 million IDPs, while an additional 1.1 million Congolese people, who fled years of ongoing violence, are hosted by neighbouring countries. The UN Officials ...

The DRC regularly ranks among the top three countries with the highest number of grave violations against children. Last year, the U.N. verified more than 3,750 violations against children ...

In DRC’s Ituri, women coffee farmers wrestle with an uncertain future. Local cooperatives are stepping in to support vulnerable farmers, mostly women, struggling in conflict-ridden eastern DRC.