Women of DR Congo

Newspaper

_ ‘DR Congo: Emergency Responses to Sexual Violence Still Essential’ (Refugees International, 28 June 2010) - accessed 10 December 2010

_‘DRC:Getting Away with Rape’ (IRIN, 12 July 2010) - accessed 10 December 2010

_ ‘DR Congo Officer Kibibi Mutware held over mass rape’ (BBC, 21 January 2011) accessed 21 January 2011

_ DR Congo: 48 rapes every hour, US study finds (BBC, 12 May 2011) - accessed 12 May 2011

_ ‘DR Congo rebel leader arrested over mass rapes’(BBC, 6 October 2010) - accessed 6 October 2010

_ ‘IRC study shows Congo’s Neglected crisis Leaves 5.4 million, dead, peace deal in N.Kivu, Increased Aid Critical to reducing death toll’(International Rescue Committee, 22 January 2008) - accessed 2 May 2011

_ _ ‘UN Official Calls DR Congo Rape Capital of the World’ (BBC 28 April 2010) - accessed 15 May 2011

Faul M, ‘Violence spirals out of control in east DRC’ (Mail and Guardian , 18 September , 2010) - accessed 18 September 2010

Fessy T, ‘Rwanda rebel FDLR leader Mbarushimana held in France’ (BBC, 11 October 2010) - accessed 11 October 2010

Hamza I, ‘Congo extends mining ban period in three states’ (African Business Review, 26 October 2010) - accessed on 26 October 2010

Marc Doyle, ‘DR Congo death toll more than 5 m’ (BBC, 22 January 2008) - accessed 18 May 2011

Mugisa A and Womakuyu F, ‘DRC Women Ask for AU force’ (New Vision 23 July 2010) - accessed 10 December 2010

Wanga J, ‘Why Congo is the most dangerous place for women’ (Guardian, 28 March 2010) - accessed 2 May 2011

Books

Allen T, Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army (Zed Books 2006)

Hochschild A, King Leopold’s Ghost (Mariner Books 1999)

Human Rights Watch, ‘Soldiers who Rape Commanders who Condone’, (Human Rights Watch, 16 July 2009) - accessed 3 May 2011

Mopo Kobanda J, Les Crimes Economiques dans les Grands Lacs Africains (Menaibuc 2006)
Cases

Auditeur Militaire v Eliwo Ngoy, RP n 084/2005 RMP n 154/PEN/SHOFO5
Articles

De Vries J, Sexual Violence against Women in Congo: Obstacles and Remedies for Judicial Assistance (Stichting NJCM-Boekerij 2007)

Ford J, Bringing Fairness to International Justice: A Handbook on the International Criminal Court for Defence Lawyers in Africa (Institute for Security Studies 2010)

Reports

Kirchner S, Wartime Rape: Sexual Terrorism in the Eastern Provinces of the DRC- International Law and Human Rights (GRIN 2008) .

Mansfield J, ‘Prosecuting sexual violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: Obstacles for survivors on the road to justice’ AHRJ (2009) 9(2) 376

Moufflet V, Le Paradigme du Viol Comme Arme de Guerre à l’Est de la République Démocratique du Congo( 2008) 227 (3) Afrique Contemporaine 119 - accessed 27 April 2011

Politi M and Nesi G, The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A challenge to impunity (Ashgate Publishing Company 2001)

Turner T, The Congo wars, conflict, myth and reality(Zed Books 2007)
Wola Bangala C, L’ONU et la Crise des Grands Lacs en RDC (1997-2007) (L`Harmattan 2009)
Reports

Joanna Mansfield, `Prosecuting sexual violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: Obstacles for Survivors on the Road to Justice` (2009) 9(2) AHRLJ - accessed May18 2011

 

Moyroud C and Katunga J, Coltan Exploration in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Institute for Security Studies 2002) 159

Pole Institute ‘The Coltan Phenomenen: How a rare mineral has changed the life of the population of war-torn North Kivu Province in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo ’ (The Pole Institute, 2002) - accessed 16 december 2010

United Nations General Assembly, Technical Assistance and Capacity Building: Second joint report of seven United Nations experts on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Thirteen session, Human Rights Council, 2010) - accessed May 18 2011

United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ‘Special Report: Summary of Fact-Finding Missions on Alleged Human Rights Violations Committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the Districts of Haut-Uélé and Bas-Uélé in Orientale Province’, (Special Report, December 2009) - accessed 6 May 2010

United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ‘Preliminary Report on the Fact-Finding Mission of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office into Mass Rape and other Human Rights Violations by a Coalition of Armed Groups along the Kibua-Mpofi road in Walikale, North Kivu, from 30 July to 2 August 2010’ (MONUSCO, 24 September 2010) - accessed 10 December 2010

Refugee Studies Center, ‘Zaire. Rape, Killingsand other Human Rights Violations by the Security Forces’(Amnesty International, 1 January 1997) - accessed 27 April 2011