Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Congo Democratic Republic)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law) under "Congo (Kinshasa)" in French, documents from 1997/1998, 2003, and May 2005
• International Constitutional Law: Zaire Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only

EXECUTIVE ARM

• President
• National Executive Council

• COURTS: Cour Supreme

LEGISLATIVE

• PARLIAMENT: Haut Conseil de la République - Parlement de Transition (High Council of the Republic - Parliament of Transition)
• Global Legal Network: Global Legal Information Network (Law Legal Issues ) offers 603 searchable English-language abstracts of laws and COURTS AND JUDICIARY decisions from January 1968 to the present, with full-text access
• NATLEX: Congo, Democratic Republic (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Zaire (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• FindLaw: Congo (Zaire)
• JURIST: Democratic Republic of the Congo (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• Sources of Online Legal Information for African Countries (Jane Williams, via GlobaLex) June 2006
• World Law Index: Congo (Dem. Rep.) (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Zaire () December 1993
• Portals to the World: Congo Democratic Republic (Legal Issues )
• Background Notes: Democratic Republic of the Congo (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Congo, Democratic Republic of the (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Congo, Democratic Republic of (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Congo, Democratic Republic of the (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Democratic Republic of the Congo (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Governments on the WWW: Congo (Democratic Republic) (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Democratic Republic of the Congo (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Democratic Republic of Congo (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NEWS: BBC World Africa; BBC French
• Permanent Mission of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations in New York
• U.S. Embassy, Kinshasa (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Congo, Democratic Republic of (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Hunger: Congo DR (World Food Programme)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Congo, Democratic Republic of the (Google); Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasha) (Stanford University); Congo, Democratic Republic of the (Yahoo); WWW-VL African Studies: Democratic Republic of Congo (Columbia University)