SOUTH SUDAN / BANGURA ARRIVAL

United Nations (UN) Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Bangura stressed the importance of holding military personnel accountable for sexually violent crimes in South Sudan. UNMISS

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:01
• Production Date: 5 May 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: ZAINAB BANGURA
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN – UNMISS
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; SEXUAL VIOLENCE
• Geographic Subject: SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 1618184
• Parent Id: 1618184
• Alternate Title: unifeed160505c

Description

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / BANGURA ARRIVAL
TRT: 01:01
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 5 MAY 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

Shotlist

5 MAY 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN

1. Wide shot, government building
2. Wide shot, Bangura meeting Foreign Minister Deng Alor
3. Close up, UN official
4. Med shot, FM
5. Med shot, Bangura
6. Wide shot, Bangura and FM
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, United Nations:
“For now it is making sure that it stops. It does not happen. People are trained, that is why we are working with military SPLA (Sudan People’s Liberation Army), to work with them to develop structure within the military to hold themselves accountable, to be able to prosecute their own people, to be able to prevent this from happening.”
8. Wide shot, Bangura leaving building

Storyline

United Nations (UN) Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Bangura stressed the importance of holding military personnel accountable for sexually violent crimes in South Sudan.

Speaking to the press in the Capitol Juba, Bangura said the UN is working with the South Sudanese military to develop a structure within the institution “to hold themselves accountable.” During her meeting with Foreign Minister Deng Alor, Bangura stressed the importance putting mechanisms in place to ensure cases of rape, kidnap and other forms of abuse do not occur.

Bangura arrived today (5 May) for a four-day visit during which she is expected to take part in the launching the implementation plan of the joint communiqué that she co-signed with President Salva Kiir in October 2014.

The joint communique outlined clear steps the government will take to prevent and address sexually violent crimes. Women in South Sudan have suffered unprecedented levels of sexual violence in the form of rape, abduction and forced marriages in the past two years of the country’s conflict.