Engagement Strategy

Genocide Intervention Network is working with partners to ensure that United States government policy toward the Democratic Republic of Congo works towards a lasting political solution to the conflict in the DR Congo including actions to protect the human rights of civilians who suffer at the hands of rebel and military perpetrators.

Quick Facts

At least 900,000

Displaced in North and South Kivu since January 2009

18,638

U.N. peacekeepers in the MONUC mission

7,000

Estimated number of rapes in 2009

1,433

Civilians killed in North and South Kivu since January 2009.