"PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE PROVINCES OF HAUT-KATANGA AND LUALABA Analysis of the legal framework and assessment of the rights situation", June 2021

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, security companies have been operating since 1970 as a surveillance unit within public and private companies. But the growth of these companies, which is essentially reflected in their exponential growth and the modernisation of their modernising their methods of intervention, dates back more than a decade, in the mining regions, following the mining regions, following the flow of extractive companies, which use their services to secure their assets and to secure their property and operating sites against invasions by artisanal diggers....

However, despite all these efforts, due to the inadequacy of the legal framework in force, human rights human rights violations are regularly committed by private security guards security agents. Indeed, between 2017 and 2020, cases of murder, torture and abuse committed by both by both private security guards and public security forces, assigned to secure mining sites the security of mining sites, have been recorded particularly in the provinces of Haut-Katanga and Luala Haut-Katanga and Lualaba provinces.

In addition, this study focuses mainly on the analysis of the national legal framework regulating the private security sector and the identification of cases of human rights violations human rights violations committed on or around the sites of mining companies by private private security services. It highlights the weaknesses of the current legal framework and documents the and documents cases of violations committed on or near mining companies Ruashi Minig, Boss Mining, KCC and TFM.