M-114 Democratic Republic of the Congo

That the House, with regard to the Democratic Republic of the Congo: (a) condemn the violence and abuses committed against hundreds of innocent civilians; (b) condemn gender-based sexual violence, especially against women and girls; (c) recognize that this violence is the deadliest since the Second World War, which has killed at least 6 million people since 1996, and that hundreds of thousands of people are reported to have been systematically subjected to gender-based sexual violence; and (d) ask the government to (i) closely monitor the situation in that country, (ii) play a leading role in mobilizing the international community to stop the repeated human rights violations and abuses and to protect threatened populations, (iii) encourage the International Criminal Court to continue its work in the formal investigation of the killings in that country.