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Forensic investigators bring DR Congo victims closer to justice

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Stories

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04 Nov 2022

The Technical Assistance Team excavating a mass gravesite in Tshisuku (Kazumba territory), Kasai Central province, DR Congo, June 2019. © MONUSCO/UN Joint Human Rights Office

In 2020, the UN Human Rights Council mandated a Technical Assistance Team to support judicial investigations into serious crimes in the Kasai provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A year later, that mandate was expanded to cover the whole country. We followed that team on one of its visits to a location where a massacre took place.

Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2022 edition)

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Policy and methodological publications

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Published Date

29 Jun 2022

This revised edition from the original 2004 version strengthens the widely recognized and highly valued Istanbul Protocol on the effective investigation into and documentation of torture and ill...

Improve forensic investigation capacity to ensure accountability and prevent unlawful deaths: UN expert

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Press releases

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22 Jun 2022

GENEVA (22 June 2022) – The capacity of States to investigate all potentially unlawful deaths, as required under international law, is too often hindered, Morris Tidball-Binz, the UN Special...

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS CONCERNED OVER LACK OF PROTECTION OF MASS GRAVE SITES IN IRAQ

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Press releases

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16 May 2003

16 May 2003 The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions of the United Nations Commission on Human rights, Asma Jahangir, is deeply concerned at reports that potential mass...

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNED OVER POSSIBLE LOSS OF EVIDENCE OF PAST ABUSES IN IRAQ

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Statements

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15 May 2003

15 May 2003 Following is a statement issued today by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello: The High Commissioner for Human Rights is concerned that evidence of past...

UN EXPERT RECOMMENDS INTERNATIONAL INQUIRY INTO GRAVE RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN OVER LAST 23 YEARS

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Statements

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Published Date

24 Oct 2002

24 October 2002 The following statement was issued in Kabul on 23 October 2002 by Asma Jahangir, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on extrajudicial, summary or...

The High Commissioner signed a Technical Project with
the Government of Mexico

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Press releases

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Published Date

22 Apr 2002

22 April 2002 On Monday 22 April 2002, Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Ms. Mariclaire Acosta, Mexico’s Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the area of Democracy...

Forensic investigators bring DR Congo victims closer to justice

Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2022 edition)

Improve forensic investigation capacity to ensure accountability and prevent unlawful deaths: UN expert

SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS CONCERNED OVER LACK OF PROTECTION OF MASS GRAVE SITES IN IRAQ

HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNED OVER POSSIBLE LOSS OF EVIDENCE OF PAST ABUSES IN IRAQ

UN EXPERT RECOMMENDS INTERNATIONAL INQUIRY INTO GRAVE RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN OVER LAST 23 YEARS

The High Commissioner signed a Technical Project with the Government of Mexico

The High Commissioner signed a Technical Project with
the Government of Mexico