A/HRC/4/7 page 3 CONTENTS Paragraphs Introduction ............................................................................................. Page 1-4 4 STATUS OF THE TRANSITION - INSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL LIFE .............................................................. 5 - 18 4 THE ELECTORAL PROCESS - INCIDENTS AND IRREGULARITIES IN THE VOTE .................................. 19 - 23 6 HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS .............................................. 24 - 43 6 A. Summary and extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, torture and arbitrary arrests .......................... 24 - 29 6 B. Sexual violence ....................................................................... 30 - 33 7 C. Situation of children ............................................................... 34 - 36 8 D. The prison situation ................................................................ 37 - 43 8 JUSTICE, IMPUNITY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS .............. 44 - 65 9 A. Internal justice and impunity .................................................. 44 - 56 9 B. The International Criminal Court: severe limits on the campaign against impunity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ............................................................ 57 - 59 11 C. Establishment of a special international criminal tribunal or joint criminal chambers ...................................................... 60 - 65 11 V. RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................. 66 - 69 12 I. II. III. IV.