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Congo, Democratic Republic of
République Democratique du Congo
(formerly: Belgian Congo, Congo/Leopoldville, Congo/Kinshasa, Zaïre)
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law) under "Congo (Kinshasa)" in French, documents from 1997/1998, 2003, and May 2005
- International Constitutional Law: Zaire Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only
Executive
- President
- National Executive Council
Judicial
- COURTS: Cour Supreme
Legislative
- PARLIAMENT: Haut Conseil de la République - Parlement de Transition (High Council of the Republic - Parliament of Transition)
- GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers 1204 searchable English-language abstracts of laws and judicial decisions from August 1964 to the present, with full-text access
- NATLEX: Congo, Democratic Republic (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides
- GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Collections Database: Zaire (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- FindLaw: Congo (Zaire)
- JURIST: Democratic Republic of the Congo (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
- The Legal Sysyem and Research of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): An Overview (Dunia Zongwe, Francois Butedi and Clement Phebe via GlobaLex) )
- Sources of Online Legal Information for African Countries (Jane Williams, via GlobaLex) June 2006
- World Legal Information Institute: Congo (Dem. Rep.) (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Country Study: Zaire (Library of Congress) December 1993
- Portals to the World: Congo Democratic Republic (Library of Congress)
- Background Note: Democratic Republic of the Congo (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Congo, Democratic Republic of the (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: Congo, Democratic Republic of (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Congo, Democratic Republic of the (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Congo, Democratic Republic of (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Governments on the WWW: Congo (Democratic Republic) (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Human Rights in Democratic Republic of the Congo (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Democratic Republic of Congo (U.S. Dept. of State)
- NEWS: BBC World Africa; BBC French
- Permanent Mission of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations in New York
- U.S. Embassy, Kinshasa (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: Congo, Democratic Republic of (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- World Hunger: Congo DR (World Food Programme)
- WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Congo, Democratic Republic of the (Google); Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) (Stanford University); Congo, Democratic Republic of the (Yahoo); WWW-VL African Studies: Democratic Republic of Congo (Columbia University)
Last Updated: 01/15/2008