8 Feb 2011

DRC / BOAT DELIVERY

Rape victims from Songo Mboyo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were presented with a boat on Monday from the UN. The boat will be used by the women to transport goods to the market in support of their income-generating activities. MONUSCO

Posted at: February 8, 2011 4:51 pm

Duration: 02:07

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STORY: DRC / BOAT DELIVERY
TRT: 2:07
SOURCE: MONUSCO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 7 FEBRUARY 2011, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

SHOTLIST:

1. Wide shot, signboard
2. Wide shot, people arriving
3. Med shot, delivery of boat key from Jean Luc Marx, Director of the Joint Office of United Nations for Human Rights
4. Med shot, boat
5. Med shot, delivery of boat key to Therese Boluwa Kuma, President of the Association of Reintegrated Mothers of Songo Mboyo
6. Wide shot, boat baptism
7. Med shot, people going into the boat
8. Med shot, man pushing boat into the river
9. Wide shot, boat in the river
10. Close-up, boat engine
11. SOUNDBITE (Lingala) Therese Boluwa Kuma, President, Association of Reintegrated Mothers of Songo Mboyo:
"We thank a big thank you to everybody. Thank you for this beautiful gift which will make us live. We are asking in a loud voice that official documents be put in our hands in order to allow us to make this boat work without a problem."
12. Med shot, boat
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean Luc Marx, Director, Joint Office of United Nations for Human Rights:
"I'm therefore happy, doubly happy because first of all, it is a promise that has been made. It is therefore important that this boat be able to function for a long time and able to serve. There be a function, as his Excellency the governor has said, that be in the interest of the victims as well as others." 
14. Med shot, boat

STORYLINE:

Rape victims from Songo Mboyo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were presented with a boat on Monday (7 February 2011) from the United Nations (UN). The boat will be used by the women to transport goods to the market in support of their income-generating activities.

More than 100 women from Songo Mboyo, a remote village in the Equateur Province, were victims of a mass rape that took place in December 2003.

Late last year, some of these women testified before a High-Level Panel, convened by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

On behalf of the High-Level Panel, Jean Luc Marx from the Joint Office of UN for Human Rights handed over the boat to the representative of the Association of Reintegrated Mothers of Songo Mboyo.

President of the Association Therese Boluwa Kuma said the gift "will make us live."

The UN High-Level Panel spent more than two weeks in DRC hearing directly from the victims of sexual violence about the remedies available to them and their needs. The panel found that while many measures and programmes are being developed by the government and the UN to support victims of sexual violence in their recovery, more could be done.

They also found that for women in remote areas like Songo Mboyo, urgent needs were largely unmet. Since the women of Songo Mboyo had not received payment of the indemnities awarded to them by the court, the panel organized the UN effort to build the boat and give it to the survivors' association as a gesture of solidarity.

Jean Luc Marx from the human rights office said that it is important that the boat "be able to function for a long time and able to serve" the victims of sexual violence.

An estimated 200,000 women have been raped in the DRC during the last 12 years of war in that country. Since the beginning of this year, there have been 120 cases of rape reported in DRC