This document includes a range of recommendations to the DRC Government which are necessary to help prevent human rights violations taking place in the future and if they do occur, to identify and bring those responsible to justice.

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This document provides some suggestions to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, on how to tackle extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions at regional level. It also welcomes the unanimous decision of the African Commission in April 1994 to establish the mechanism of a Special...

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AI is sending this open letter to the Heads of State of Angola, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. AI’s concerned that increasingly, countries hosting refugees and asylum-seekers from Rwanda, Burundi...

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This document contains six appeal cases for use in AI Week and International Children’s Day action, 20 October to 20 November 1997. The appeal cases are focused on target governments which have failed to comply with their international obligations. The cases are on Democratic Republic of Congo,...

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1. Burundi: Thousands killed in ethnic violence; 2. Haiti: Fear for the safety of the inhabitants of Raboteau and Cite Soleil; 3. Three AI appeal cases released; 4. Germany: Hamburg police go unprosecuted for ill-treatment of detainees; 5. Cameroon: All prisoners must be protected from torture; 6....

1. North Korea: Evidence of systematic abuses emerges. 2. Tunisia: Deaths in custody linked to torture. 3. The former USSR: Homosexual sex decriminalized in three republics. 4. Senegal: Torture and ill-treatment in political cases. 5. Sierra Leone: Prisoners released after AI calls for review of...

As the struggle for power between President Mobutu Sese Seko and his opponents continues, the government is using the worsening situation as an excuse for appalling human rights abuses. Among those described in this report with case examples are extrajudicial executions and other unlawful killings;...