Refugees from the Congolese Tutsi community in the Great Lakes region have petitioned the UN Security Council to denounce the human rights violations they suffer in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo

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  UNHCR and UNICEF strongly condemned the shelling that took place in three internally displaced persons camps in North Kivu, in the east of the country, with dozens of casualties and shelters and humanitarian facilities destroyed

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  The world is forgetting the escalating violence in eastern Congo, the UN human rights chief said as he visited the region and called for peace and support for millions of displaced people

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  One of the first in-depth studies of the environmental and human rights impacts of industrial cobalt mining in the country reveals that toxic pollution from the industryis having devastating impacts on humans and nature

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  Judith Suminwa has been appointed as prime minister, the first time a woman has assumed government leadership

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