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19th UPR session
Date of review: 29 April 2014
Date of report adoption: 7 July 2014
Document number: A/HRC/27/5
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SUMMARY SOGIESC issues during the DRC’s 2nd UPR review Civil society submissions: ✓ (2 submissions) National report: ✘ UN information: ✘ Working group discussions: ✘ Recommendations: ✘ |
I. SOGIESC issues/recommendations identified by NGOs
Constitutional and legislative framework
12. Noting that a Member of Parliament had submitted a bill in 2010 that would prohibit unnatural sexual practices, including homosexuality, Sexual Rights Initiative and Si Jeunesse savait (If Young People Knew) (JS17) recommended that it should be rejected.
Right to privacy, marriage and family life
57. JS3 stated that homosexuality had never been illegal; however, there were reports that in October 2010, a bill criminalizing homosexuality had been presented to Parliament. Under this bill, people who engage in homosexual activity would be sentenced to 3 to 5 years in prison or fined 500,000 Congolese francs.
58. JS17 noted that the rights of lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and transgender persons were violated in various ways, that they were regularly tortured by members of the police, the army or the intelligence services, which extorted money from them, and that they were prosecuted on charges of indecent conduct.
II. Excerpts on SOGIESC issues from the national report
No references.
III. Excerpts on SOGIESC issues by UN agencies
No references.
IV. References to SOGIESC issues during the Working Group review
No references.
V. Conclusions and/or recommendations
The DRC received no recommendations on SOGIESC issues.
VI. Further information
You will find all documents relating to the DRC’s second review at UPR-Info and OHCHR’s websites.