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Subject: DR CONGO: SENIOR UN OFFICIALS RELAY HOPES FOR LATEST GREAT
LAKES PEACE EFFORT
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DR CONGO: SENIOR UN OFFICIALS RELAY HOPES FOR LATEST GREAT LAKES PEACE
EFFORTNew York, Jun 4 2013 5:00PMThe Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC) is placing a great deal of hope on the latest peace
agreement, a senior United Nations official today said, following her
visit to the region to keep a global spotlight on the complex and
protracted humanitarian emergency in the African country.
The longing for peace is "great," Kyung-wha Kang, Assistant
Secretary-General and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the UN
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told
journalists in New York.
During her visit to the DRC and Uganda between 26 and 31 May, Ms. Kang
said, everyone she spoke with "appealed very earnestly for peace so
that they could resume their lives and livelihoods."
She said there is optimism following the recent visit to the Great
Lakes by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, his Special Envoy for the
region, Mary Robinson, and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim around
the peace agreement – known formally as the Peace, Security and
Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of Congo and the
Region.
Mr. Ban's visit to North Kivu in eastern DRC came just days after
renewed fighting between the DRC national armed forces (FARDC) and the
23 March Movement (M23) rebels.
Ms. Kang, whose visit followed soon after, said she was "impressed" by
the humanitarian efforts to provide urgent assistance to the people in
need, which include 2.6 million people displaced throughout the
country, some 973,000 displaced in North Kivu alone.
She cautioned that despite efforts, many remain in need outside the
reach of humanitarian access, due to insecurity and lack of resources.
The $892 million Humanitarian Action Plan (HAP) – launched for 2013 by
humanitarian partners and the Government to provide aid to millions
affected by food insecurity, conflict and disease – is only about 37
per cent funded at $333 million.
"Funding is a big concern," Ms. Kang said, adding that at the current
rate there is only enough food available to last five or six months.
In South Kivu, Ms. Kang spoke at Panzi Hospital in Bukavu to women and
girls who had suffered rape and other sexual violence. Quoting its
medical director, Ms. Kang said the hospital treats around 300
survivors of rape every month, an increase in the numbers seeking
treatment since 2012.
The survivors of sexual violence, beyond immediate medical and
psychological needs, have told Ms. Kang that they place hope in the
framework as "the last chance to bring about peace."
Some of the issues raised by Ms. Kang were also touched on today
during a panel discussion on "Women and peacebuilding in the Great
Lakes region," which featured among its speakers Mrs. Robinson and the
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in
Conflict, Zainab Bangura.
Mrs. Robinson said that during her first visit to the region in late
April and early May to promote the peace accord, she encouraged the
widest possible partnership with civil society and she had made it a
priority to meet with many women's groups. Women had been very active
in developing and promoting action plans, she said, and they would be
vital to ensuring acceptance and implementation of the accord, which
she has dubbed the "Framework of Hope."
She announced that women from the Great Lakes and other countries
whose Governments had signed the accord planned to meet on 9 July in
Bujumbura, Burundi, to outline a platform as a means to ensure that
women's voices influenced the accord's monitoring mechanisms,
oversight and proposed benchmarks. Women's active participation would
ensure that the Framework will be embraced by people "from the bottom
up and adhered to and implemented by Governments from the top down."
Ms. Bangura said that the world was coming to realize that without the
active participation of 50 per cent of the population, there could be
no peace or active pursuit of the broader development agenda. "Women
bring experiences, ideas and points of view that we cannot ignore if
we want to heal the wounds of the past and ensure justice," she said.
The Framework Agreement provided an excellent opportunity to "tap into
the vast potential that is African women," she stated. Women could be
leaders in all the priority areas under the accord – from peacekeepers
to activists and religions leaders.
"If we accept as fact that women – from Heads of State to grandmothers
– have an integral role in rebuilding communities after war, we can
make real progress," she declared, adding that women's education,
empowerment and inclusion at all levels would yield the peace dividend
"to build the future we want for the DRC and the Great Lakes."Jun 4
2013 5:00PM
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