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GENEVA / OHCHR DRC REPARATIONS

Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kyung-wha Kang says victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo need greater assistance. "Some things are being provided but it is very ad hoc - the more you go into the remote rural areas there is almost absolutely nothing." UNTV
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STORY: GENEVA / OHCHR DRC REPARATIONS
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SOURCE: CH UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

SHOT DATE: 15 OCTOBER 2010, GENEVA SWITZERLAND

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RECENT 2010, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Wide shot, Palais des Nations

15 OCTOBER 2010, GENEVA SWITZERLAND

2. Wide Shot Journalists, Press Room III, Palais des Nations, Geneva.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“There is indeed a tremendous need and a clear call from the victims themselves for more assistance and reparation. Some things are being provided but it is very ad hoc the more you go into the remote rural areas there is almost absolutely nothing. Their lives have been largely destroyed, they suffer greatly, physically, mentally, materially, and this victimization is compounded by the stigma that they have to suffer not just in families but in communities.”
4. Wide Shot, Journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“We have heard so much about this challenge of mass rapes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo but all throughout what was missing was the voice of the victims. With the international community concerned people go in and listen to the horrendous stories. But then what? What has become of their lives since?”
6. Close up, journalist writing
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“Every one of them was articulate, full of anger and very clear in what they wanted. I was mostly touched because the women as desperate as their own needs are medically, psychologically their first need was for their children.”

FILE / 30 SEPTEMBER -10 OCTOBER, DR CONGO

8. Wide shot, helicopter Arriving
9. Wide shot, woman getting out of helicopter,
10. Close up, woman looking ahead
11. Wide shot, two armed men walking
12. Wide shot, Kyung-wha Kang walking
13. Pan right, from crowd to Kyung-wha Kang to women singing
14. Med shot, Kyung-wha Kang listening to a women talk
15. Med shot, women listening
16. Close up, Med shot, Kyung-wha Kang listening
17. Close up, Kyung-wha Kang taking notes
18. Med shot, women giving evidence

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The United Nations (UN) Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights said the sexual violence victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) need greater assistance than they are getting, particularly in remote areas.

At a press conference today (15 October) in Geneva at the end of a two week visit by a panel to the DRC, Kyung-wha Kang told journalists that the victims greatest need is for peace and security.

She said “there is indeed a tremendous need and a clear call from the victims themselves for more assistance and reparation. Some things are being provided but it is very ad hoc the more you go into the remote rural areas there is almost absolutely nothing.”

From 30 September to 10 October, the panel, convened by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to consider and discuss the adequacy of reparations available to victims of sexual violence, travelled to Bukavu, Shabunda (South Kivu), Bunia, Komanda (Orientale), Mbandaka and Songo Mboyo (Equateur), meeting a total of 61 victims, ranging in age from three years old to sixty-one years old, and including four male victims.

In each place, the panel met with provincial and local government officials, and convened roundtables with officials in the justice sector, members of civil society and UN representatives.

The UN says about 15,000 rapes are reported in Congo each year.

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