ACNUDH | DRC violated right to life of prominent human rights defender Pascal Kabungulu, UN Committee finds
DRC violated right to life of prominent human rights defender Pascal Kabungulu, UN Committee finds GENEVA (13 January 2021) – The UN Human Rights Committee has found the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) violated the right to life of Pascal Kabungulu who was killed in an extrajudicial execution, in front of his family. Kabungulu was a leading human rights defender committed to the fight against corruption and impunity in the DRC. A journalist by training, he served as Executive Secretary of Héritiers de la Justice, a well-known human rights group that had uncovered and documented...