Constitution

• Constitution Finder (external link) (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 (external link) (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only

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Executive

• President
• National Executive Council

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Judicial

• COURTS: Cour Supreme

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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 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees, regulations, judicial decisions, and legal literature; full-text
• NATLEX: Congo, Democratic Republic (external link) (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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Legal Guides

• Global Legal Information Catalog: Zaire (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• Global Legal Monitor: Congo, Democratic Republic of (Law Library of Congress)
• Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
• FindLaw: Congo (Zaire) (external link)
• JURIST: Democratic Republic of the Congo (external link) (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• The Legal System and Research of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): An Overview (external link) (Dunia Zongwe, Francois Butedi and Clement Phebe via GlobaLex)
• Sources of Online Legal Information for African Countries (external link) (Jane Williams, via GlobaLex) June 2006
• World Legal Information Institute: Congo (Dem. Rep.) (external link) (WorldLII)
• World Legal Materials from Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo (external link) (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

• Country Study: Zaire (Library of Congress) December 1993
• 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)
• Human Rights in Democratic Republic of the Congo (external link) (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Reports: Democratic Republic of Congo (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NEWS: BBC World Africa; BBC French (external link)
• Permanent Mission of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations in New York (external link)
• U.S. Embassy, Kinshasa (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Congo, Democratic Republic of (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Hunger: Congo DR (external link) (World Food Programme)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) (external link) (Stanford University); Congo, Democratic Republic of the (external link) (Yahoo); WWW-VL African Studies: Democratic Republic of Congo (external link) (Columbia University)

For more information on Congo, Democratic Republic of see:

• Global Legal Montor: Congo, Democratic Republic of

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Last Updated: 08/07/2012