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The Security Council unanimously approves a resolution demanding that all parties to armed conflict immediately take appropriate measures to protect civilians, including women and children, from all forms of sexual violence. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that violence against women is, "not cultural but criminal." UNTV / FILE

Duration:02:57Date:30 September 2009

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United Nations Television, Mission of the United Nations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, POLITICAL AND LEGAL QUESTIONS, MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND SECURITY, CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

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STORY: UN / WOMEN PEACE AND SECURITY
SOURCE: UNTV/ MONUC
TRT: 2.57
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 30 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1.	Wide shot, exterior UN building

29 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY

2.	Wide shot, Security Council
3.	Various shots, Security Council vote
4.	Med shot, delegates
5.	SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State:
“Certainly the challenge of sexual violence in conflict cannot and should not be separated from the broader security issues confronting this Council. It is time for all of us to assume our responsibility to go beyond condemning this behaviour to taking concrete steps to end it; to make it sociably unacceptable, to recognize it is not cultural, it is criminal.”
6.	Med shot, delegates
7.	SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State:
“Thank you very much. I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I kind of like being a president. This may go on a little longer than anticipated.”
8.	Med shot, Clinton and Ban laughing
9.	Med shot, delegates
10.	SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Parties to armed conflict continue to use sexual violence with efficient brutality. The perpetrators generally operate with impunity. States and other parties to conflict must uphold their international legal obligations. The international community must do more to prevent violence, protect individuals, punish perpetrators and provide redress to victims.”
11.	Wide shot, Security Council
12.	Wide shot, Clinton and Rice walk to the microphone
13.	SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State: 
“We believe that the mandate for the Goldstone Report is one-sided, and many of the recommendations are appropriately dealt with by the institutions within Israel. Therefore we believe that the appropriate venue within the international system is the Human Rights Council. “
14.	Med shot, reporter
15.	SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, United States Secretary of State:
“Iran has a choice, to comply with its international obligations – that would mean not only offering inspections, but ending its activities absent the kind of monitoring and supervision that would guarantee what they are doing is solely for peaceful purposes – and the alternative which is grater isolation and international pressure.”
16.	Wide shot, Clinton walks away from the microphone

FILE – MONUC - 11 AUGUST 2009, GOMA, DR CONGO

17.	Med shot, Hillary Clinton disembarking UN plane
18.	Med shot, Hillary Clinton hand shake with President Joseph Kabila
19.	Med shot, women dancing
20.	Med shot, Hillary Clinton saluting military formation

STORYLINE:

The Security Council today (30 September) demanded that all parties to armed conflict take immediate action to protect civilians, including women and children, from all forms of sexual violence, and urged greater measures by States and the United Nations to combat this scourge.

In a unanimously adopted resolution, the Council also requested that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appoint a Special Representative to provide coherent and strategic leadership to address sexual violence in armed conflict.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of the United States, which holds the Council’s rotating presidency for this month presided the meeting and told the Council that the issue of sexual violence in conflict “can not and should not be separated from the broader security issues” confronting the Security Council.

She added that the international community’s response should “go beyond condemning this behaviour to taking concrete steps to end it”, stressing that sexual violence “is not cultural, it is criminal.”

In a lighter moment, Clinton - who was defeated by President Barack Obama in last year's Democratic presidential primary – quipped to general laughter that she “kind of like(s) being a president.”

The Secretary-General in his address to the Council said that “parties to armed conflict continue to use sexual violence with efficient brutality” and “generally operate with impunity”, and pointed out that the international community “must do more to prevent violence, protect individuals, punish perpetrators and provide redress to victims.”
 
In a report issued on the issue in July, Ban called for States to strengthen prevention and protection measures against the systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon, a practice that is rife in armed conflicts in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Outside the Security Council Clinton responded to questions from reporters on a number of issues.

Regarding the Goldstone Report, which sharply condemns the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) actions during January’s offensive in Gaza, she said that it is “one-sided” and that many of the recommendations can be “appropriately dealt with by the institutions within Israel” and in the Human Rights Council.

Turning to Iran’s nuclear programme, the Secretary of State said that “Iran has a choice” of complying with its international obligations, or “grater isolation and international pressure.”

Talks between senior officials from the five permanent members of the Security Council and Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili are slated for tomorrow in Geneva.

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