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STORY: GENEVA / COTE D’IVOIRE HUMAN RIGHTS
TRT: 2:46
SOURCE: OHCHR
RESTRICTIONS:NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 24 MARCH 2014, GENEVA
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Doudou Diene, independent expert on the human rights situation in Cote d’Ivoire:
“Cote d’Ivoire is on the way of recovering from ten years of violent crisis. But it is just a process because the crisis has been very deep. It was more political, human, economic and social. So it will take time for Cote d’Ivoire to totally recover but I feel the grounds have been rebuilt and the basis is there for recovery.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Doudou Diene, independent expert on the human rights situation in Cote d’Ivoire:
“The reconciliation process is linked to the key issue of justice and more precise the issue of impartiality and equity of justice and also to the problem of fully participating democratic process. All these problems are still not totally resolved.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Doudou Diene, independent expert on the human rights situation in Cote d’Ivoire:
“The judicial agenda is so heavy that they have to try all those who have been released recently, but provisionary released, the former hierarchy of the former government. There are many of them. Mrs Gbabgo has to be tried because Cote d’Ivoire has decided that they will assume the primary responsibility of judging her in Cote d’Ivoire and not giving her to the International Criminal Court – and others, so the judicial agenda is very heavy . Second problem, for the election to be credible independent electoral commission has to be reformed. Everybody agrees that it has to be reformed because it does not reflect the reality of the political landscape of Cote d’Ivoire.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (French) Doudou Diene, independent expert on the human rights situation in Cote d’Ivoire:
“The third internal problem is the economic and social problem. On one hand, Cote d’Ivoire has achieved in an extremely positive way an economic growth of 8 or 9 percent. This is something that has not been seen in other African countries that have seen a similar crisis, but this macroeconomic growth is not translated into the domestic household economy. This means that the average Ivorian won’t be able to send his kids to the school, find a job and proper housing. The current social and economical situation risk to erode the whole reconciliation and dialogue process.”
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United Nations (UN) Independent Expert on the human rights situation in Cote d’Ivoire Doudou Diene has expressed concern over unresolved issues in the national reconciliation process of the West African country – ahead of presidential elections in 2015.
In an interview, Diene said the upcoming elections will be the utmost test on whether the country has healed from its turbulent violent past into a democratic State.
The independent expert speaking a day before he makes a presentation to the UN Human Rights Council emphasized the need to dispense justice of past crimes noting that the judiciary had a back log of cases and there was lack of equity.
He called for the expedition of the trial of the country’s former first lady, the wife of the former President, Laurent Gbagbo. The former president is currently facing trial at the International Criminal Court.
And he said, the second problem is that there needs to be a “credible, independent, electoral commission. “Everybody agrees that it has to be reformed because it does not reflect the reality of the political landscape of Cote d’Ivoire.”
Diene also said that Cote d’Ivoire has achieved in an extremely positive way an economic growth of 8 or 9 percent, but he explained that this macroeconomic growth has not been translated into the domestic household economy.
He said "this means that the average Ivorian won’t be able to send his kids to the school, find a job and proper housing,"adding in that the current social and economical situation risk to erode the whole reconciliation and dialogue process.
The country is recovering from months of instability after a disputed poll in 2010.
