The seizure by M23 rebels of vast tracts of land in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has triggered a ...

Thousands from eastern Congo have been fleeing conflict for decades, and many are being displaced again as the Rwandan-backed ...

The worst could be yet to come in east Congo's escalating crisis, U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday, warning that abuses including rape and sexual slavery may increase.

It has stalled for two years, leading to criticism that it ...

Nearly three thousand people have been killed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to ...

Learn more about the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and how humanitarian organizations are ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council today agreed by consensus to launch an urgent fact-finding mission and commission of ...

Rwanda said on Friday it had proof of an intended major attack by the Democratic Republic of Congo and denied it was ...

The U.N. human rights chief expressed alarm over the worsening crisis in eastern Congo, urging influential parties to end the ...

A rebel group that claimed to have captured the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, after fighting with the Congolese ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk told an emergency meeting of the Human Rights Council that he was deeply disturbed by the ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council should create an independent mandate to investigate abuses by all parties to the ...