On 29 January 2022, a DRC court sentenced over 50 people for the murders of Catalán and her American colleague Michael Sharp.
Following her personal campaign, Catalán received 16,300 votes in the election, which wasn't enough to get a place in the European Parliament.
[6][failed verification] After the Swedish general election in 2006 she was part of the Stockholm City Council for the Green Party.
[7][8] Catalán began working in an expert group for the United Nations in 2016, reporting to the Security Council and directly to the Secretary-General, investigating abuse against the population and human rights violations in the DRC.
[15][16] On 26 March 2018, one of the perpetrators, Vincent Manga, was captured by Kananga's military authorities and moved the investigation into a new direction in order to solve the incident.
[20] A New York Times editorial described their dispatch to a violent region without safety equipment as an "astoundingly irresponsible approach by the United Nations to an obviously dangerous and hugely important task.