Based in Goma, North Kivu, and founded in 1998, Centre de Recherche sur l’Environnement, la Démocratie et les Droits de l’Homme (Research Center on the Environment, Democracy and Human Rights – CREDDHO) helps rural communities promote the rule of law in the Rutshuru, Nyiragongo, and Masisi territories. CREDDHO aims to 1) challenge sexual violence through education of local authorities, communities, and local NGOs about a 2006 law that increases penalties for perpetrators of sexual violence, monitoring and reporting of crimes, and the provision of legal aid to victims; 2) put an end to the use of torture and illegal detention through education, prison monitoring, and reporting of the most egregious cases; and 3) fight impunity by promoting national justice reform and the work of the International Criminal Court, and by advocating for the creation of a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission and a hybrid criminal court to try war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the last five years, the organization has expanded its activities to include documenting and reporting human rights violations associated with mining. With support from the Fund and others, over the past three years CREDDHO opened satellite offices in Masisi Walikale, the site of many of these mines.