Kindu, May 18th, 2026 (CPA).- Human rights defenders have enhanced their capacity to monitor violations during a training session organised in Kindu, the provincial capital of Maniema in the centre-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), at the initiative of an organisation, CPA has learned on Monday from an association source. “The Synergy for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Maniema (SPDDHM) has organised a one-day training session, during which human rights defenders from various organisations have strengthened their capacity to monitor human rights violations,” has declared Raphael Upelele, trainer and executive secretary of the NGO Haki Za Binadamu in Maniema, the organisation that has initiated this training session.
He went on to say: “Through this activity, participants were equipped with techniques for collecting, verifying and analysing information relating to human rights violations,” adding that the session has enabled participants to master various investigative methods; report writing and the formulation of recommendations have been also in the centre of the discussions at the meeting. According to the organisers, the main objective of the session is to improve the quality of human rights defenders’ work and to strengthen the documentation of human rights violations in Maniema province.
According to the organisers, the main objective of the session is to improve the quality of human rights defenders’ work and to strengthen the documentation of human rights violations in Maniema province. On this occasion, he invited all participants to put into practice all the material learnt during this training session in order to perform their work, respecting not only the techniques for collecting, verifying and analysing information relating to human rights violations, but also the various methods of investigation, report writing and the formulation of recommendations.