Meeting at UN Human Rights Offices in Kinshasa between the wars victims and Members of Parliament

Some of the participants during the Meeting at the BCNUDH Offices in Kinshasa engaging on durable solutions for the war victims from Eastern DRC now in Kinshasa.

Briefing about the meeting held on Tuesday March 10^th, 2026 at MONUSCO offices on the situation of the war victims from the Eastern DRC now living in Kinshasa

Kulihoshi Musikami Pecos, the National Coordinator also taking part in the meeting and proposing the inclusion of all war victims present in Kinshasa, and in particular way, human rights defenders. 

The Transitional Justice of the United Nations Mission for Stabilization in DRC known as MONUSCO organized a consultation meeting on the situation of the war victims from the DRC now present in Kinshasa.

The meeting brought together the representatives of the war victims, human rights defenders from the East and Members of the Parliament from the Eastern DRCongo. The objective of the meeting was to create awareness about the humanitarian crisis of the war victims in Kinshasa and suggest better ways to solve it.

The meeting was informed that more than 2,000 war victims from eastern DRC are currently living in Kinshasa in horrible conditions, some living on the streets, women and young girls in survival sex, those who are seek and have no access to treatment, children who are not going to school, the increase of the deaths among them, …

In the process, the idea to advocate for a settlement camp was considered as the best as it will help to coordinate humanitarian relief aid and mobilize partners in order to help those in need.

While the audience agreed that we need urgent solutions and that the victims have suffered for long, there was a debate on if the Camp is the best option and why people could not be helped from where they are and if the distance from Kinshasa up to where the camp should be could favor the survivors.

It was therefore agreed that the Transitional Justice starts the move to write to authorities in order to provide the land to people.

We do support this initiative and we continue participating in all activities in order to make it happen, however we are concerned that the debate is focusing only on war victims from the Eastern DRC and nothing is said about other victims who are in the similar situation in Kinshasa especially those who ran away from the MOBONDO ethnic conflict. Our advocacy will also therefore focus on the inclusion of all the war victims in Kinshasa.