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irregularities and illegal detention. In addition, with the assistance of UNJHRO, 17
senior law enforcement officers were arrested and 5 were removed from the national
police force for serious human rights violations. Two illegal detention centres in
Kinshasa and Kisangani were also closed in 2014.
28. From 2008 to 2014, in all provinces in the country, UNJHRO, MONUSCO and
UNFPA trained around 421,856 members of FARDC, the national police force and the
national intelligence agency in combating sexual violence and promoting respect for
human rights and international humanitarian law. Together with UNICEF, they
designed training modules on combating sexual violence and on international
humanitarian law, which were added to the training programme of the national police
force and FARDC.
29. The chart below shows a decrease in the number of human rights violations
between 2011 and 2014, with 53 per cent of violations committed by members of
FARDC or the national police force in 2014. This reduction can be attributed to the
training they received and the trials of perpetrators of human rights violations. The
peaks observed in 2012 are explained by a resurgence in the activities of armed groups
in the east of the country.
2011
Armed groups
Authorities
ANR
PNC
2012
(Congolese
police force )
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
FARDC
Number of violations
Chart 2: Perpetrators of human rights violations
2013
2014
Types of perpetrator
Source: UNJHRO data.
30. Under the coordination of UNFPA, several partners such as UNJHRO, Heal
Africa, the International Rescue Committee, Magna Enfants en Péril and UNICEF,
with the support of Member States, created and subsequently handed to the
Government (Ministry for Gender, the Family and Children) a database on acts of
sexual violence committed between 2010 and 2014. The aim of this official database is
to map and coordinate action by the international community in nine provinces. A
major obstacle to updating the database is the reticence of certain partners to share
information which they consider belongs to them.
31. Since 2012, UNJHRO has assisted the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights in
consolidating the data on sentences handed out by national courts in cases of sexual
violence. The assistance has consisted in developing tools for data collection, for data
analysis and for the production of statistical reports. UNJHRO has placed material
resources at the disposal of the Ministry and has assigned an expert to the Ministry to
manage the database. Other actors from the United Nations, international NGOs and
UNJHRO are finding it difficult to coordinate their efforts to provide similar
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