[ti:Targeting Violence Against Women in Armed Conflicts]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:WWW.51VOA.COM]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:05.01]in VOA Special English.
[00:08.04]On September twenty-eighth,
[00:10.30]security forces attacked
[00:12.29]unarmed pro-democracy demonstrators
[00:15.43]in Conakry, the capital of Guinea.
[00:18.93]Protesters were shot,
[00:20.83]beaten and stabbed.
[00:22.94]Human rights groups
[00:24.70]and witnesses say at least
[00:26.91]one hundred fifty-seven people
[00:29.44]were killed, a number disputed
[00:31.99]by the military government.
[00:34.09]But in addition to the killings,
[00:36.79]human rights groups say
[00:38.39]a similar number
[00:40.32]of female protesters were raped.
[00:43.26]Sexual violence against women
[00:46.16]and girls has been widespread in Africa.
[00:50.06]But rape has been used
[00:52.26]as a weapon of war in the Balkans,
[00:55.01]Burma and Sri Lanka.
[00:57.01]The World Health Organization says
[00:59.72]one in three women around the world
[01:03.07]will experience some form
[01:05.34]of violence in their lifetime.
[01:07.63]"I feel pain in my heart.
[01:10.84]I cannot go back because of
[01:12.76]what they did to me.
[01:14.21]Three people raped me
[01:15.46]in front of my son."
[01:16.82]Rebels in the Democratic Republic
[01:19.02]of Congo attacked this woman,
[01:21.47]took her clothes and burned her house.
[01:24.64]In August, American Secretary
[01:27.97]of State Hillary Clinton promised
[01:30.12]more than seventeen million dollars
[01:32.71]to fight sexual violence in the D.R.C.
[01:36.61]But human rights groups say
[01:39.51]the United States must do more
[01:42.09]to help protect women and girls
[01:45.39]in developing countries.
[01:47.43]They want Congress to pass a measure
[01:50.55]called the International Violence
[01:52.95]Against Women Act.
[01:55.06]It would finance a five-year program
[01:58.47]to pay for health care
[02:00.72]and other services for victims.
[02:03.61]It would also provide training
[02:06.31]for local police
[02:08.00]in preventing violence against women.
[02:11.10]The legislation was first proposed
[02:14.39]in two thousand seven by Joe Biden,
[02:17.89]then a senator, now the vice president.
[02:21.38]A group of lawmakers say
[02:23.83]they plan to propose it again soon.
[02:26.67]This week, actress and United Nations
[02:30.67]goodwill ambassador Nicole Kidman
[02:33.16]spoke at a hearing in Congress.
[02:35.61]NICOLE KIDMAN: "Violence against women
[02:37.31]is not prosecuted because it is
[02:39.07]not a top government
[02:40.66]and urgent social priority.
[02:42.40] We can change this."
[02:44.26]On September thirtieth,
[02:46.15]the United Nations Security Council
[02:48.97]approved a third resolution
[02:51.92]against sexual violence in armed conflicts.
[02:56.13]Secretary Clinton chaired the meeting,
[02:59.08]held on the last day of the United States'
[03:02.53]month-long presidency of the council.
[03:05.71]She said the new resolution aims
[03:09.57]to give the United Nations
[03:11.63]and its members new tools
[03:14.04]to prevent violence
[03:16.54]and punish those responsible.
[03:19.39]Among other things,
[03:21.28]it calls on the secretary-general
[03:23.73]to appoint a special representative
[03:26.37]to lead efforts to end sexual violence.
[03:30.76]The council also promised
[03:33.72]to consider information
[03:35.42]about such violence when establishing
[03:38.47]or renewing targeted sanctions
[03:41.56]in armed conflicts.
[03:43.51]Also last month,
[03:45.98]the United Nations agreed
[03:48.02]to combine four agencies
[03:50.62]and offices into a single,
[03:53.54]stronger agency to work on women's issues.
[03:57.64]They will be combined under the U.N.
[04:01.27]Development Fund for Women, or UNIFEM.
[04:05.57]Widney Brown, senior director for policy
[04:09.42]at the human rights group
[04:11.16]Amnesty International,
[04:12.87]praised the move.
[04:14.43]WIDNEY BROWN: "We have a central place
[04:16.18]in the U.N. where we can hopefully
[04:18.22]have the sort of political power
[04:20.12]and financial clout to actually
[04:22.61]have a real impact on women's lives
[04:24.85]in all the countries where the U.N. works."
[04:26.77]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:29.17]in VOA Special English,
[04:31.32]available on the Web with transcripts
[04:34.47]and podcasts at 51voa.com.
[04:39.32]I'm Steve Ember.
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