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Irène Esambo
Irène Esambo Diata is a human rights lawyer and politician in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A woman with a disability, in 2019 Esambo became DRC's first minister for people with disabilities. In the 2021 Lukonde government she kept her place in cabinet, as Minister-delegate to the Minister of Social Affairs, in charge of the Disabled and Other Vulnerable Persons. Life Irène Esambo practiced law for many years in Kinshasa, with expertise in cases of sexual violence, disability rights and victims of war. She was head of the Centre d'Études sur la Justice et la Résolution 1325 (CJR), aiming at security sector reform in the light of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. In 2013 she was appointed as a lawyer with the International Criminal Court. In August 2019 Esambo was announced as a member of the Ilunga government, taking the new role of Delegate to the Minister of Social Affairs in charge of people living with disabilities and other vulnerable people. In 2020 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Republic Of Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered to the northwest by the Republic of the Congo, to the north by the Central African Republic, to the northeast by South Sudan, to the east by Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, and by Tanzania (across Lake Tanganyika), to the south and southeast by Zambia, to the southwest by Angola, and to the west by the South Atlantic Ocean and the Cabinda exclave of Angola. By area, it is the second-largest country in Africa and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of around 108 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populous officially Francophone country in the world. The national capital and largest city is Kinshasa, which is also the nation's economic center. Centered on the Congo Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |