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STORY: UN / CLINTON
TRT: 2.50
SOURCE: UNTV / MONUC
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT 2009, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations headquarters
25 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Hillary Clinton entering venue and shaking hands with Maxime Verhagen, Foreign Minister of the Netherlands
3. Cutaway, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, United States:
“Something like 1,100 rapes are reported each month in the Eastern Congo, that’s an average of thirty-six women and girls raped every day. I heard a lot of terrible stories, the fifteen-year-old girl who looked younger than her years who was fetching water from the river when two soldiers, she wasn’t sure who they were, were they irregulars, were they militias, were they the Congolese army, they were just soldiers who told her if she refused to give in to them they then they would kill her, they beat her, ripped her clothes off and raped her. I met one nine-year-old girl who was nabbed by two soldiers who put a bag over her head and raped her repeatedly in the bushes, and a woman who was eight months pregnant when she was attacked and after being so brutalized and losing her baby she was no longer accepted in her own home.”
5. Cutaway, audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, United States:
“When women are accorded their rights and afforded equal opportunities, and education, and health care, and employment and political participation, they invest in their families. They lift them up, they contribute to their community and their nations. When they are marginalized, when they are mistreated, when they are ignored, when they are demeaned then progress is not possible.”
7. Cutaway, audience
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, United States:
“The problem is that very often there is no legal action taken against those who perpetuate this violence, even when they are members of nation’s states armed forces.”
9. Cutaway, audience applauding while Hillary takes her seat
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Maxime Verhagen, Foreign Minister, The Netherlands:
“Stopping violence against girls is a top government wide priority in the Netherlands and our actions are not motivated by pity, we are under the obligation to protect and to promote these rights as we have signed this treaty.”
11. Wide shot, audience applauding
FILE / MONUC - 11 AUGUST 2009, GOMA, DR CONGO
12. Med shot, Hillary walking with officials and local people
13. Med shot, women dancing in Goma Camp
14. Wide shot, refugees in camp
15. Med shot, Hillary Clinton speaking to a man in the camp
FILE - UNHCR -11 AUGUST 2009, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
16. Wide shot, Hillary Clinton at ‘Heal Africa’ hospital shaking hands with people
17. Med shot, handshakes with Heal Africa’ hospital staff
18. Wide shot, women singing for Hillary Clinton
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton along with UN partners launched a new initiative today in the fight against sexual violence against girls, a scourge which affects 150 million victims in a given year and contributes to the spread of HIV and AIDS.
At a breakfast meeting at UN headquarters co-sponsored by the Netherlands and Brazil, Clinton said that preventing the exploitation and marginalization of girls was no longer an afterthought but a core foreign policy objective of the United States.
She said that around 1,100 rapes were reported each month in the Eastern Congo - an average of thirty-six women and girls raped every day.
On her recent trip to Africa last month, Clinton met with women and girls raped and abused by soldiers and irregular forces during the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
She also said that when women were accorded their rights, they contribute to their community and their nations, but when they were marginalized, mistreated, ignored and demeaned, then progress is not possible.
And often there was no legal action taken against those who perpetuate sexual violence, “even when they are members of nation’s states armed forces.”
Clinton said that the US was pressing DRC authorities in Kinshasa to bring to justice five military officers who have either been directly implicated in rape and violence against young women, or created the environment in which the abuses could occur.
Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said that abuse of young women is not limited to developing countries as evidenced by recent highly publicized cases of murder, long-term abduction and exploitation of young women in Europe and the United States.
Verhagen said that stopping violence against girls was a top priority in his country and that their actions were not motivated by pity. He said his government was under the obligation to protect and to promote these rights as they had ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The U.S co-sponsored Security Council resolution expected to be approved next week, would create a special representative to the U.N. secretary-general to lead, coordinate efforts to end gender-based violence in armed conflicts.
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