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STORY: UN / COOMARASWAMY DRC
SOURCE: UNTV / MONUSCO
TRT: 0.52
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 OCTOBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – UNTV - RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
UNTV - 12 OCTOBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, United Nations:
“The recent events in the Congo, as you know, will highlight the fact that this is a brutal reality in many conflicts. And we support Special Representative Wallstrom fully in her call to address impunity and to bring perpetrators of justice to task and we are glad for the recent arrest. But we feel that for action to be sustainable there has to be national ownership.”
4. Cutaway, photographer
FILE – MONUSCO - 2 OCTOBER 2010, KAMPALA VILLAGE, WALIKALE TERRITORY, NORTH KIVU PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
5. Various shots, Margot Wallström meeting with women in the village
The top United Nations (UN) official fighting to eliminate the recruitment of child soldiers today (12 October) appealed to governments to provide the necessary resources to ensure the reintegration of these youngsters into civil society once they have been freed.
She highlighted the successes in protecting children over the past year, including the release of 3,000 children from the Maoist cantonment in Nepal, an accord by the former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) to release 900 children by November, and an access agreement with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), one of the main rebel groups in Darfur. The FNL rebel group in Burundi has also released all children and these have been reintegrated.
She also addressed challenges in the protection of children. A major challenge has been the issue of sexual violence and the need to end impunity and bring the guilty to justice.
On the recent arrest of Sadoke Kikunda Mayele, who is suspected of having participated in the mass rapes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UN advocate for children and armed conflict said that “for action to be sustainable there has to be national ownership.”
She expressed her support for Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Margot Wallström who was visiting the DRC during the arrest of Mayele. Last week, Wallström visited Walikale where the rapes took place from end July to early August.
