We, the undersigned 76 Congolese, regional, and international human rights organizations, write to appeal to you to urgently work to establish, in the context of a special session of the UN Human Rights Council, an independent mandate to investigate and report on grave rights violations and abuses being committed by all parties to the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and to support efforts to hold perpetrators to account.
The conflict between Rwandan forces and the M23 armed group, on one side, and the Congolese army and the armed groups it has allied itself with on the other
