Zaire Law - Library of Congress

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Congo, Democratic Republic of
R»publique Democratique du Congo
(formerly: Belgian Congo, Congo/Leopoldville, Congo/Kinshasa, Za‘re)


CONSTITUTION

* 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 (Universitât Bern Institut f?r ˜ffentliches Recht) background information only

EXECUTIVE

* President
* National Executive Council

JUDICIAL

* COURTS: Cour Supreme

LEGISLATIVE

* PARLIAMENT: Haut Conseil de la R»publique - Parlement de Transition (High Council of the Republic - Parliament of Transition)
* GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers 1204 searchable English-language abstracts of laws and judicial decisions from August 1964 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


LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

* GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
* Multinational Collections Database: Zaire (Law Library of Congress) 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 Legal Information Institute: Congo (Dem. Rep.) (WorldLII)
* World Legal Materials from Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo (Cornell Legal Information Institute)


GENERAL SOURCES

* Country Study: Zaire (Library of Congress) December 1993
* Portals to the World: Congo Democratic Republic (Library of Congress)
* 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: Congo, Democratic Republic of (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)