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considerable delay in the country’s development. This situation has led to chronic
humanitarian crises and grave violations of human rights, in particular sexual and
gender-based violence.
12. In response, the international community has taken significant measures in the
field of human rights. These have involved numerous international NGOs,
MONUSCO, whose human rights mandate is implemented by UNJHRO, and the
United Nations Programme Management Team (PMT). 2
A.
Support for the administration of justice in combating impunity
13. The political instability and insecurity in the country led to serious crimes and
mass violations of human rights by defence and security forces and by armed groups.
They included extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, sexual and gender -based
violence, property crime and forced labour.
14. In the absence of comprehensive data on the period under consideration, the
chart below shows the evolution of human rights violations and the number of victims
of those violations between 2011 and 2014.
Chart 1: Evolution of human rights violations and
victims
10000
8000
Human
rights
Violations
des droits de
violations
l'homme
Victims
Victimes
6000
4000
2000
0
2011
2012
2013
2014
Source: Data from UNJHRO.
15. The above chart shows a slight decrease in the number of cases of human rights
violations during the period in question but a marked increase in the number of
victims. In total, 21,940 victims were recorded by UNJHRO between 2011 and 2014,
of whom 14,851 were men, 4,149 were women and 2,940 were children. Victims of
sexual violence were among the victims for whom comp rehensive care was provided.
1.
Holistic care for victims of sexual and gender-based violence
16. In 2008, in her report on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural, including the right to development
(A/HRC/7/6/Add.4), the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes
and consequences, noted that survivors of rape in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo lacked appropriate care and were denied the compensation to which they were
entitled under international and Congolese law.
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