Key Websites¶

African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, Congo, State Reports

World Prison Brief, ICPR

Communications Unit for the Directorate-General of the Prison Service, Congo (in French)

US Department of State, Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2013 - Congo, Republic of the

Congolese Human Rights Observatory (in French)

International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture, ACAT Congo

Legislation¶

Constitution of the Republic of the Congo, adopted by referendum on 25 October 2015.

Law No. 10-2022 dated 20 April 2022 on the Correctional Code of the Republic of the Congo, published 5 May 2022.

Law No. 1-63 dated 13 January 1963 on the Code of Criminal Procedure, published 31 January 1963.

Order No. 12897 dated 15 September 2011 establishing the remit and organisation of the DGAP’s services and offices, published 22 September 2011.

Order No. 12898 dated 15 September 2011 establishing the remit and organisation of the departmental directorates of the prison service, published 22 September 2011.

Order No. 12899 establishing the remit and organisation of remand prisons, published 22 September 2011.

Order No. 12900 dated 15 September 2011 on the rules and regulations of remand prisons, published 22 September 2011.

Law No. 001/84 dated 20 January 1984 on the reorganisation of legal aid, published 20 January 1984.

Law No. 4-2010 on the protection of children in the Republic of the Congo, published 14 June 2020.

Reports, guides, studies¶

United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC):

“Universal Periodic Review - Congo”, 2018.

“Compilation on the Congo: Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights”, August 2018.

“Summary of Stakeholders’ submissions on the Republic of Congo”, 24 August 2018.

International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture, ACAT Congo:

“Alternative report of FIACAT and ACAT Congo for the adoption of a list of items to be addressed before presenting the report on the Congo, 129th session”, 8 June 2020 (in French).

“Contribution of FIACAT and ACAT Congo to the Third Universal Periodic Review of the Congo”, March 2018 (in French).

“Joint alternative report by FIACAT and ACAT Congo on the implementation by Congo of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment”, March 2015 (in French).

World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), Collective of Associations against Impunity in Togo (CACIT), ACAT Congo:

“Africa and Covid-19 – Health emergency and correctional emergency, Case of the Republic of the Congo”, December 2020 (in French).

“Report from civil society on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”, 4 June 2020 (in French).

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):

“Visit to the Congo – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of indigenous peoples”, 10 July 2020.

Act Together for Human Rights (Agir ensemble pour les droits de l’homme), Association for Human Rights and Prison Life (Association pour les droits de l’Homme et l’univers carcéral), Congolese Human Rights Observatory (Observatoire congolais des droits de l’homme), “Report on Descriptions of Torture in the Republic of the Congo for the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture”, 26 June 2017 (in French).

Gathering for Peace and Human Rights (Rencontre pour la paix et les droits de l’Homme), position paper, “The Situation of Human Rights in Prisons in the Republic of the Congo”, 27 January 2015 (in French).

Samusocial International, Kadiatou Konaré, “Children and Young People on the Streets and the Logic of Delinquents, Myth and Reality: The Example of ‘Black Babies’ in the Republic of the Congo”, September 2019 (in French).

Human Rights Platform (Plateforme Droits de l’Homme), “Conversation with Christian Loubassou (ACAT Congo) at Concertina”, 1  September 2022 (in French).