• “I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”

    -Baruch Spinoza

    Bouton

  • "Nothing is self-evident. Nothing is given. Everything is built."

    -Gaston Bachelard

    Bouton

  • "If you think like me, you are my brother. If you don't think like me, you are my brother twice over because you open me up to a new world."

    -Amadou Hampâté Bâ

    Bouton

  • "The essential is always threatened by the insignificant."

    -René Char

    Bouton

  • "We must always try to understand our fellow man. If we exist, we must admit that he too, exists."

    -Amadou Hampâté Bâ

    Bouton

  • "The real sometimes quenches hope’s thirst. That is why, against all odds, hope survives."

    -René Char

    Bouton

  • "The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know."

    -Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Bouton

  • "Listen carefully, we used to say in old Africa, everything speaks, everything is word, everything tries to communicate knowledge to us."

    -Amadou Hampâté Bâ

    Bouton

  • "The simplifying modes of knowledge mutilate more than they express the realities or the phenomena they give an account of."

    -Edgar Morin

    Bouton

  • "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."

    -Charles Mingus

    Bouton

  • "When you do something, know that you will have against you those who would like to do the same thing, those who would like to do the opposite, and the vast majority of those who would not do anything."

    -Confucius

    Bouton

  • "There is no simple, there is simplification. The simple is always simplified."

    -Gaston Bachelard

    Bouton

  • "The disease is not cured by saying the name of the medicine, but by taking the medicine."

    -Thomas Sankara

    Bouton

  • "Be ever vigilant, hold government accountable, struggle for peace and justice."

    -Nelson Mandela

    Bouton
DRC_Politique Nationale de Réforme de la Justice 2017 - 2026

National Justice Reform Policy 2017 - 2026, Democratic Republic of Congo

Policy and Strategy Document
Facilitation: Ladislas de Coster
Completed for the Ministry of Justice and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo hired a team of experts to facilitate the development of a national plan of action to reform the justice system within the country. It was achieved through a participative process in which a large range of justice actors, international and local stakeholders were involved. The four pillars of the national policy are:

1. Guaranteeing access to the law and quality justice for all 
2. Guaranteeing the independence of the judiciary 
3. Ensuring the performance of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights
4. Ensuring justice based on respect for human dignity

To read the full policy, you may access it here.
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