Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo regarding the Kawama demolitions.

Amnesty International issued a report on 17 November 2014 into the demolitions of homes and commercial buildings at Kawama in November 2009. Officials at our Embassy in Kinshasa have regular and frank dialogue with the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on a number of issues, including on cases of alleged human rights violations, and will make representations urging the Government of the DRC to fully investigate the allegations made in the report.