A/HRC/30/33 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. __________________ 2 GE.15-14279 The Programme Management Team is composed of approximately 20 entities — funds, programmes and resident and non-resident agencies. 7/19

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