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an award of reparations can take. The Presidential Adviser on Sexual Violence and the
Recruitment and Use of Children has indicated that clearing the backlog of reparations
awards and establishing a fund for this purpose are key priorities for her office.
2.
Action taken by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office
26.
The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office remained occupied with building the
capacity of seven NGOs running legal clinics to improve victims’ access to justice.
Between June 2014 and May 2015, with the support of the Governments of Canada and the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Joint Office supported the work
of NGOs in establishing 12 legal clinics in the Provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu,
Katanga, Bas-Congo, Maniema and Kinshasa. These clinics provide free legal assistance to
victims of sexual violence and accompany them through the judicial process, starting with
the filing of complaints.
27.
Over the reporting period, at least 400 victims of sexual violence received assistance
from the legal clinics, which resulted in 103 sentences being pronounced against the
perpetrators. The legal clinics also established referral mechanisms to holistic services for
survivors to help them receive the urgent medical, psychosocial and rehabilitation services
they need. During the reporting period, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office
further provided financial and technical support to six mobile court hearings involving
cases of sexual violence — three trials in North Kivu, two in Bas-Congo and one in South
Kivu.4
28.
Between April and May 2015, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office
organized training for 39 medical doctors on forensic expertise on sexual violence and for
49 judicial police officers on handling sexual violence cases, in Kinshasa, Matadi, Kalemie
and Kindu. The Joint Office also contributed to the creation of five mini-libraries in
prosecutors’ offices5 for the special cells aimed at eradicating sexual and gender-based
violence.
29.
The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office remained committed within the
framework of the Task Force on Children and Armed Conflict to matters pertaining to the
implementation of the action plan to stop and prevent underage recruitment, sexual violence
against children and other grave child rights violations that was signed by the Prime
Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for the country and Head of MONUSCO on 4 October 2012.
C.
Extrajudicial killings and summary executions
30.
The Human Rights Committee recommended that the Government investigate,
prosecute and punish all acts of extrajudicial killings and summary executions, and grant
appropriate reparation to the families of victims (see CCPR/C/COD/CO/3, paras. 10 and
15). The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions also
recommended that the Government implement fully its “zero tolerance” policy and
investigate, arrest and prosecute FARDC members responsible for such killings (see
A/HRC/14/24/Add.3, para. 109).
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5
The United Nations Joint Human Rights Office supported one trial in Kiwanja, Rutshuru territory,
North Kivu; two trials in Kitchanga, Masisi territory, North Kivu; one trial in Kasangulu, Bas-Congo;
and the trial of Colonel 106 in Bukavu, South Kivu.
In Kinshasa, Matadi, Kindu, Kalemie and Lubumbashi.
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