The spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, expressed serious concerns on Tuesday about the 'sharply deteriorating' human rights situation in the eastern ...

M23 rebels backed by Rwanda took the city of Goma in a bloody battle. This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center ...

UNICEF denounced the alarming rise in violence against children in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on ...

UNICEF accused “armed men” of raping scores of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been ravaged by ...

Rape and other violence against children in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has soared to unprecedented levels, the ...

Armed men have raped dozens of children in eastern Congo, UNICEF says - An aid agency is receiving ‘horrific reports’ of ...

Unprecedented sexual violence against children has been reported in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo as the ...

The U.N. children’s fund is accusing armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of children over the past weeks as rebels expand their footprint and push govern ...