Congo-Kinshasa: Children's Day Celebration (AllAfrica.com)

The 19th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child was celebrated by DRC provinces on 20th November 2008 under the theme "Combating Violence against Children". Several activities were organised to enable the children to lobby for their rights.

Congo-Kinshasa: Mbandaka - Monuc Finances a New Quick Impact Project in Iyonda (AllAfrica.com)

An "Apprenticeship and training college for the profit of mothers with badly nourished children" has just been opened in Iyonda, 12 kilometres from Mbandaka, financed by MONUC within the framework of its Quick Impact Projects (QIPs).

Congo-Kinshasa: Judicial Police Trained in Human Rights in Kinshasa (AllAfrica.com)

The UN Human Rights Office in the DR Congo (UNHRO/MONUC), in partnership with the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF, International Organisation of French-Speaking Countries), organised, in Kinshasa from 17-18th November 2008, a seminar intended to enable Congolese police to better perform their work of maintaining public order, protecting individual rights and liberties, and ...

Congo-Kinshasa: General Babacar Gaye - Monuc Through Its Mandate Continues to Assist the Fardc (AllAfrica.com)

The security situation is calm overall today. The CNDP, in accordance with its declaration of yesterday, started withdrawals on the Kanyabanyonga-Nyanzale and Kabasha-Kiwanja axes.

Congo-Kinshasa: Security Council Authorizes Boost to UN Peacekeeping Force (UN News Service) (AllAfrica.com)

The Security Council today authorized a temporary increase of more than 3,000 blue helmets serving with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to deal with the violence in the country's east, which has displaced an estimated 250,000 civilians in recent months.

Congo-Kinshasa: Monuc Promotes the Adoption of a Law for the Protection of the Child (AllAfrica.com)

In advance of Universal Children's Day, celebrated on 20 November each year, at the MONUC weekly press conference of 19 November 2008, Congolese children transmitted their demands to members of Parliament of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Congo-Kinshasa: Kisangani - the United Nations Envisages an Operation to Assist Dungu Refugees (AllAfrica.com)

A plan to redeploy humanitarian agencies to Dungu, in Haut-Uélé territory 800 kilometres to the north of Kisangani, is being considered to allow aid to reach 34,000 internally displaced refugees in the area.

Congo-Kinshasa: Monuc Proceeds With New Troop-Configuration in North Kivu (AllAfrica.com)

MONUC has markedly stepped up its military presence in North Kivu, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the DRC, Alan Doss told on 19 November 2008, during the weekly press conference.

Congo-Kinshasa: Feingold, Brownback Call for Ceasefire (AllAfrica.com)

Today U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduced a bipartisan resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following escalating violence in the country.

Congo-Kinshasa: Election Officials Launch a Project On the Training of Electoral Personnel (AllAfrica.com)

In Kinshasa, the president of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), Father Apollinaire Malu Malu, presided, on 18 november 2008, over the official launch of a pilot project intended to train electoral personnel in the use of new technology to further reinforce their capacities.