UN Documents for Democratic Republic of the Congo
Selected Security Council Resolutions | View All |
21 February 2025 S/RES/2773 | This resolution, acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, strongly condemns the ongoing offensive and advances of the M23 in the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces of the DRC--calling on the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) to cease support to M23 and immediately withdraw from DRC territory without preconditions. The resolution also reiterates an urgent call for all parties to conclude an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. |
20 December 2024 S/RES/2765 | This resolution extends the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) for a period of one year until 20 December 2025--noting the continued violence in eastern DRC by the 23 March Movement (M23) and the persistent presence of other domestic and foreign armed groups in the country. |
6 August 2024 S/RES/2746 | This resolution authorised MONUSCO to provide logistical and operational support to SAMIDRC and requested the Secretary-General to report on the implementation of this resolution and SAMIDRC to report on its activities, including coordination with MONUSCO, by 15 November. |
Selected Security Council Presidential Statements | View All |
16 October 2023 S/PRST/2023/5 | This is the Security Council's Presidential Statement on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
29 March 2023 S/PRST/2023/3 | This was a presidential statement adopted by the Security Council following its visiting mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which took place between 9 and 12 March 2023. |
28 October 2022 SC/15087 | This was on the situation in the Great Lakes region. |
Selected Secretary-General's Reports | View All |
20 June 2024 S/2024/482 | This was the Secretary-General's report on MONUSCO. |
1 April 2024 S/2024/278 | https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n24/082/53/pdf/n2408253.pdf |
30 November 2023 S/2023/932 | This was the Secretary-General's report on MONUSCO. |
Selected Sanctions Committee Documents | View All |
13 June 2023 S/2023/431 | This is the letter dated 13 June 2023 from the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo addressed to the President of the Security Council. |
16 December 2022 S/2022/967 | This is the midterm report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo assisting the 1533 Democratic Republic of the Congo Sanctions Committee. |
2 June 2020 S/2020/482 | This was the final report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
Selected Security Council Letters | View All |
24 April 2025 S/2025/251 | This was the summary of the IEG’s 26 March meeting on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
6 December 2023 S/2023/964 | This was the summary of the IEG’s 6 November meeting on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
20 December 2022 S/2022/991 | This was the summary of the IEG’s 29 November meeting on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
Selected Security Council Meeting Records | View All |
27 March 2025 S/PV.9887 | This was a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). |
8 July 2024 S/PV.9681 | This was a meeting on the situation in the DRC. |
24 April 2024 S/PV.9615 | https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/pro/n24/112/10/pdf/n2411210.pdf |
Selected Security Council Press Statements | View All |
26 January 2025 SC/15982 | This was a press statement on the situation on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in which members of the Security Council condemned the ongoing advances by the M23 in the North-Kivu province of eastern DRC, and expressed serious concerns regarding imminent threats against Goma. They also echoed the statement by the Secretary-General dated 26 January 2025, demanding that the ongoing offensive and advances towards Goma immediately stop. |
25 October 2024 SC/15866 | This was a statement on the situation in the DRC. |
20 June 2024 SC/15739 | This was a statement on the situation in the DRC. |
Selected General Assembly Documents | View All |
22 June 2005 A/RES/59/285 B | This resolution was about financing of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
20 September 1960 A/RES/1480 (XV) | This resolution admitted the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a member of the UN. |
Selected Human Rights Council Documents | View All |
14 August 2019 A/HRC/42/32 | This was the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation and the activities of the UN Joint Human Rights Office in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
29 September 2017 A/HRC/RES/36/30 | This was a HRC resolution on technical assistance and capacity-building in the field of human rights in the DRC. |
27 July 2015 A/HRC/30/32 | This was the report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation in the DRC covering period from June 2014 to May 2015. |
Selected Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict Documents | View All |
10 December 2020 S/AC.51/2020/10 | These were conclusions adopted by the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict on the Secretary-General's report on the the Democratic Republic of the Congo, covering the period from 1 January 2018 to 31 March 2020. |
7 August 2018 S/AC.51/2018/2 | This was the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict's sixth conclusion on the DRC. |
Selected Other Documents | View All |
15 November 2018 S/2018/1030 | This was the report on the Security Council mission to the DRC from 5 to 7 October 2018. |
27 September 2012 SG/2188 | This was the summary of the high-level event on the DRC. |
1 July 2011 Final Report of the Fact-Finding Missions of the UNJHRO | This was the Final Report of the Fact-Finding Missions of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office into the Mass Rapes and Other Human Rights Violations Committed by a Coalition of Armed Groups Along the Kibua-Mpofi Axis in Walikale Territory, Noth Kivu, From 30 July to 2 August 2010. |