Brazzaville’s government has referred suspected domestic violence by a minister to the courts under the 2022 Mouebara Law, despite no formal complaint.
Gender-based violence
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Civil-society mobilisation meets national ambition The final days of 2025 witnessed the discreet but symbolically charged presentation of the Lamuka Collective’s Pointe-Noire–Kouilou branch to the Departmental Coordination of Civil-Society Organisations. …
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Surge in Gender Violence 2025 The room fell silent on 12 December in Brazzaville’s Plateaux District Hall when Kaani Assistance unfurled the results of its November fieldwork. The non-governmental organisation’s …
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Momentum builds around a centralised GBV register The presentation of the report “Visibiliser et documenter les violences faites aux femmes en République du Congo”, delivered this week in Brazzaville by …
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Early-Morning Violence in Makélékélé Barely after dawn on 2 October, the relative calm of Brazzaville’s Château d’Eau quarter was shattered by screams coming from a modest family compound. According to …
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Brazzaville civil society renews focus Fourteen years after its inception, the Réseau national de lutte contre les violences spécifiques au Congo (RENALVISCO) is quietly staging a comeback that many observers …
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Law Mouebara and Congolese Legal Modernization The Republic of Congo has placed itself at the vanguard of Central African legal reform with Law No.19-2022 of 4 May 2022, colloquially known …