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to these recommendations during the period from March to November 2009 to identify
setbacks and to determine the causes for the insufficient implementation of the
recommendations.
The Congolese Government must take a series of coherent, systematic and human
rights-focused measures, with the assistance of relevant local, national and international
stakeholders, to implement the recommendations that have been already made, in order to
respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of its citizens. The High Commissioner will
continue to support the Government and other partners in the country in their efforts
towards promotion and protection of human rights in the country. It will do so mainly
through the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office.2
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violence against women, its causes and consequences, A/HRC/7/6/Add.4; Report of the
Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons on a
mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, A/HRC/8/6/Add.3; concluding observations of the
Committee on the Rights of the Child, CRC/C/COD/CO/2; report of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights and the activities of her Office in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo, A/HRC/10/58; combined report of seven thematic special
procedures on technical assistance to the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and
urgent examination of the situation in the east of the country, A/HRC/10/59. References are also
made in the report to the main findings and preliminary recommendations issued following recent
visits to the country by the Special Rappporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and the
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in May and October 2009,
respectively, as well to the recent concluding observations issued by the Committee on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, E/C.12/COD/CO/4. In order to avoid repetition, the sources of the
recommendations will not be repeated throughout the report as most of the recommendations have
been issued by several mechanisms indicated above.
UNJHRO was established on 1 February 2008 with the integration of the OHCHR country office and
the Human Rights Division of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(MONUC) into one office.
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