Content_paragraphs:  In 2019, MONUSCO documented 6,545 human rights violations and abuses
  
  across the country, a decrease of four per cent compared with 2018 and a reversal of
  
  the upward trend of the previous two years. The decrease was mainly a result of a
  
  significant reduction in violations linked to restrictions on democratic space. The
  
  number of violations attributable to State agents decreased by 15 per cent, while
  
  abuses by armed groups and militias increased by 14 per cent, in particular in
  
  Maniema, North Kivu and South Kivu. Extrajudicial killings and summary executions
  
  increased to 1,459 cases, including those of 324 women and 114 children. Armed
  
  groups were responsible for the majority of the killings.