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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 23 December 2022 - onwards
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Regulation 4 Purposes

(1) The regulations contained in this instrument that are made under section 1 of the Act have the following purposes -

(a) compliance with the relevant UN obligations, and

(b) the additional purposes mentioned in paragraph (2).

(2) Those additional purposes are to promote -

(a) resolution of the armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;

(b) respect for human rights, and compliance with international humanitarian law, including, in particular, in relation to -

(i) the right of persons not to be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including in the context of -

(aa) rape, mass rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence;

(bb) deliberate targeting of civilians, schools and hospitals;

(cc) recruitment or use of children as soldiers;

(ii) the right of persons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the freedom of expression and peaceful assembly;

(c) respect for democracy, the rule of law and good governance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo;

otherwise than by compliance with the relevant UN obligations.