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Democratic Republic of Congo: Human Rights

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 69892, tabled on 29 March 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if the Government will take steps at the UN Security Council or the UN Human Rights Council to support the creation of an international investigation into human rights violations in the Kasai provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Answered on

19 April 2017

The UK supports the UN Group of Experts in their investigations into the causes and drivers of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including human rights violations in the Kasai provinces. I made a statement on 29 March expressing my sincere condolences for the deaths of two of their members in the region. The UN Security Council has called on the Government of the DRC to swiftly investigate these crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. We welcome the UN inquiry into the events and their commitment to do everything possible to ensure that justice is done.

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