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BENI – Amnesty International has urged the Congolese authorities to protect a human rights activist after she was attacked by armed men at her home last month.

GOMA – UNICEF Director of Emergency Programmes Louis-Georges Arsenault has just concluded a six-day trip to DR Congo that highlighted the challenges facing children and families here.

IPIS has produced an interactive web map of all mining concessions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva. Further information can be found on the UNHCR websites, www.unhcr.org and www.unhcr.fr, which should also be checked for regular media updates on non-briefing days.

BUKAVU – International Medical Corps has been awarded $10 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to assist survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through the Bienvenue aux Changements dans la Communauté (BCC) program. As lead grantee, International Medical Corps will implement the program with partners Search for Common Ground and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs.

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KINSHASA – The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) welcomes the International Criminal Court’s initiative having led to the arrest of Mr. Calixte Mbarushimana, the executive secretary of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) by French authorities on 11 October last.

Launched for the first time in 2000, the World March of Women (WMW) is set to close its third edition from 14 to 17 October 2010 in Bukavu, in the province of South Kivu in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A vast global movement mobilising groups and organisations fighting for the eradication of the causes of poverty and violence against women, the WMW will bring together, in Bukavu, an international delegation of 250 women from over 160 countries, alongside 900 Congolese women from the nation's ten regions.

The Hague — On Friday, 8 October, 2010, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) reversed Trial Chamber I’s decisions to stay proceedings in the case The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, and to release the accused.

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