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Interview with the United Nations Secretary General Deputy Special Representative, RossMountain on the sexual violence in RDC (8/11/2007).

We were dealing with hundreds thousands of victims the last coupled years.

A survey led last year by the Nations United Fund for the Population (UNFPA) roughly on half of the health centers found 50.000 cases. If that many cases were reported, how many cases are really there," he said.

In 2006, in the only South-Kivu, we were close to 25.000 cases ,he said. It is a very big problem. It is not only an anecdotal problem but a massive problem that requires that, all of us together, we try and ensure that not only the women victims of rape and abuses are treated, but also that the sexual violence stops.

http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/200711080611.html?viewall=1

Office of the United Nations for the Coordination of the Humanitarian Affairs(OCHA): Stephen Lewis, the former United Nations Special Envoy for the IHV/AIDS in Africa, called the International Community to take some emergency measures to put an end to the generalization of the sexual violence in the Eastern RDC during a press conference held September 13 in Nairobi, the Kenya Capital " The multiplication of sexual aggressions on the African continent gives blood chilling, and nowhere else in the world the situation is only as serious in the East of the RDC " he said. RDC: to combat sexual violence against women in the South-Kivu - IRIN - September 17 2007, http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74304

Security Council: Press briefing of the Security council President, Jean-Maurice Ripert (France), on the Democratic Republic of Congo, on September 11, 2007.

" The members of the Council also call the Congolese authorities to intensify their struggle against impunity, with the adequate international support, particularly in regards to the quantity of sexual violence and abuses committed against the women and the children in the East of the R.D.C. " UN - September 11, 2007
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=23770&Cr=democratic&Cr1=con...
&Kw1=Security+council&Kw2=&Kw3=

UNICEF: V-Day and the UNICEF call to put an end of the rapes and the sexual violence in the East of the RDC.

The founder of V-Day, Eve Ensler (the Vagina Monologues) threw with the Fund of the Nations United for the childhood (UNICEF) a campaign against rape of the girls and women of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the magazine 'Glamour.' "Determined to put a light on the acts of violence committed against the girls and women of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eve Ensler, an well-known author of several plays, achieved a chronicle of her meetings with women of the Eastern Congo, a region where sexual violence became a banal war weapon,” the UNICEF announced in a communiqué published yesterday in New York. [...]" - UN - September 7, 2007 http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/drcongo_40516.html

UN: John Holmes, the Secretary General Deputy Representative of Humanitarian Affairs invited Tuesday the Security Council to consider some sanctions against the States or armed groups that commit sexual violence during the armed conflicts. John Holmes denounces the horror of the sexual violence in the Kivus. -UN - September 6, 2007, http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=23729&Cr=democratic&Cr1=congo&
Kw1=John+Holmes&Kw2=&Kw3=

UN: UN expert on violence against women expresses serious concerns following visit to Democratic Republic of Congo. Mrs Yakin Ertürk, denounced today the sexual atrocities committed in RDC, in particular in the South-Kivu. On the government's invitation, the expert undertook an official visit in Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), from July 16 to July 27, 2007.

Besides Kinshasa, she visited Ituri, the provinces of the South-Kivu and Equateur. “Of straightaway, I call the attention on the alarming situation in the province of the South-Kivu that requires an immediate action. In the setting of my mandate, that concerns the violence against women, the situation in the two Kivus is the worse of the crises that I have met up today", she insisted. - Office of the Human Rights’s High Commissioner - July 30, 2007 http://www2.ohchr.org/english/press/newsFrameset-2.htm

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UHHCHR) : Louise Arbour exhorts the Great Lakes countries to put an end to impunity. She welcomed the role of the non governmental organizations (NGO) working essentially with the victims of these violence (of the tortures more that of the "aggression of victims' dignity “), and called to make a similar effort to prosecute the perpetrators. The High Commissioner for Human's Rights, made today a report of her two weeks mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC) and Burundi to the Security Council, underlining the necessity to prosecute and to judgethe perpetrators of those crimes, notably in the setting of sexual violence “terrible and daily committed." -UN - May 31, 2007. http://www.un.org/apps/newsFr/storyFAr.asp?NewsID=14228&Cr=arbour&Cr1=viols
&Kw1=congo&Kw2=violations&Kw3= (In French)

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	Press Releases UNITED NATIONS (NU) Interview with the United Nations Secretary General Deputy Special Representative, RossMountain on the sexual violence in RDC (8/11/2007). We were dealing with hundreds thousands of victims the last coupled years. A survey led last year by the Nations United Fund for the Population (UNFPA) roughly on half of the health centers found 50.000 cases. If that many cases were reported, how many cases are really there," he said. In 2006, in the only South-Kivu, we were close to 25.000 cases ,he said. It is a very big problem. It is not only an anecdotal problem but a massive problem that requires that, all of us together, we try and ensure that not only the women victims of rape and abuses are treated, but also that the sexual violence stops. http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/200711080611.html?viewall=1 Office of the United Nations for the Coordination of the Humanitarian Affairs(OCHA): Stephen Lewis, the former United Nations Special Envoy for the IHV/AIDS in Africa, called the International Community to take some emergency measures to put an end to the generalization of the sexual violence in the Eastern RDC during a press conference held September 13 in Nairobi, the Kenya Capital " The multiplication of sexual aggressions on the African continent gives blood chilling, and nowhere else in the world the situation is only as serious in the East of the RDC " he said. RDC: to combat sexual violence against women in the South-Kivu - IRIN - September 17 2007, http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74304 Security Council: Press briefing of the Security council President, Jean-Maurice Ripert (France), on the Democratic Republic of Congo, on September 11, 2007. " The members of the Council also call the Congolese authorities to intensify their struggle against impunity, with the adequate international support, particularly in regards to the quantity of sexual violence and abuses committed against the women and the children in the East of the R.D.C. " UN - September 11, 2007 http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=23770&Cr=democratic&Cr1=con... &Kw1=Security+council&Kw2=&Kw3= UNICEF: V-Day and the UNICEF call to put an end of the rapes and the sexual violence in the East of the RDC. The founder of V-Day, Eve Ensler (the Vagina Monologues) threw with the Fund of the Nations United for the childhood (UNICEF) a campaign against rape of the girls and women of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the magazine 'Glamour.' "Determined to put a light on the acts of violence committed against the girls and women of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eve Ensler, an well-known author of several plays, achieved a chronicle of her meetings with women of the Eastern Congo, a region where sexual violence became a banal war weapon,” the UNICEF announced in a communiqué published yesterday in New York. [...]" - UN - September 7, 2007 http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/drcongo_40516.html UN: John Holmes, the Secretary General Deputy Representative of Humanitarian Affairs invited Tuesday the Security Council to consider some sanctions against the States or armed groups that commit sexual violence during the armed conflicts. John Holmes denounces the horror of the sexual violence in the Kivus. -UN - September 6, 2007, http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=23729&Cr=democratic&Cr1=congo& Kw1=John+Holmes&Kw2=&Kw3= UN: UN expert on violence against women expresses serious concerns following visit to Democratic Republic of Congo. Mrs Yakin Ertürk, denounced today the sexual atrocities committed in RDC, in particular in the South-Kivu. On the government's invitation, the expert undertook an official visit in Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), from July 16 to July 27, 2007. Besides Kinshasa, she visited Ituri, the provinces of the South-Kivu and Equateur. “Of straightaway, I call the attention on the alarming situation in the province of the South-Kivu that requires an immediate action. In the setting of my mandate, that concerns the violence against women, the situation in the two Kivus is the worse of the crises that I have met up today", she insisted. - Office of the Human Rights’s High Commissioner - July 30, 2007 http://www2.ohchr.org/english/press/newsFrameset-2.htm The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UHHCHR) : Louise Arbour exhorts the Great Lakes countries to put an end to impunity. She welcomed the role of the non governmental organizations (NGO) working essentially with the victims of these violence (of the tortures more that of the "aggression of victims' dignity “), and called to make a similar effort to prosecute the perpetrators. The High Commissioner for Human's Rights, made today a report of her two weeks mission in Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC) and Burundi to the Security Council, underlining the necessity to prosecute and to judgethe perpetrators of those crimes, notably in the setting of sexual violence “terrible and daily committed." -UN - May 31, 2007. http://www.un.org/apps/newsFr/storyFAr.asp?NewsID=14228&Cr=arbour&Cr1=viols &Kw1=congo&Kw2=violations&Kw3= (In French) French
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