For Peace, Security, Stability and Development the pictorial memorable ctivities RTF A great Page 27 region Issue 1, 2017 Regional Training Facility www.icglr-rtf.org free copy High level regional meet on SGBV opens 12 countries converge in uganda to discuss SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE Facts about gender based violence

Key phrase — All acts against a woman are not gender-based violence, or that all victims of gender-based violence are female. The surrounding circumstances where men are victim of sexual violence could be a man being harassed, beaten or killed. page 12 Over 500 officers train highlights —There will also be a session on general trends in implementing the ICGLR instruments: pro- gress, challenges and recom- mendations-as seen from the ICGLR secretariat and the Uganda’s First Lady, Janet K. Museveni with other delegates at the 2011 summit at Munyonyo, Kampala. Regional civil society forum. he International 3rd 2017. The highly-billed for the rest of the proceedings. the Kampala Declaration and page 5 Conference of the Great conference is being held at There will be a grand opening Resolution 18 of the Kampala TLakes High Level meeting Munyonyo Commonwealth of the RTF in the afternoon of 1st Declaration which was her of Ministers of Gender, Judicial Resort Hotel, Kampala. December 2017, just a few meters personal recommendation officers, Parliamentarians, The conference is expected to from the conference venue. The adopted by the summit. The mode National Coordinators, its be opened by Uganda’s Minister of Guest of Honour for the opening of operation will be presentations Centres and Fora on Strategies Foreign Affairs, Hon. Sam Kutesa is expected to be the First lady from experts with thematic for Implementation of the in the Morning of Ist December of Uganda and the Minister in sessions as per the programme. organisations’ Instruments 2017 where there will be a key Charge of Education and Sports, on Sexual and Gender Based note address with a rejoinder Hon. Janet K Museveni. Violence opens in Kampala, from francophone perspective on The Ugandan First Lady was Uganda on December 1 till strategies that will set the stage very central in the drafting of turn to page 2 thegreat 2 region 2017 wwwwwwwwwwwwwwfrom the editor... Big strides for Regional Training Facility t has been a monumental feat for the Great Lakes Region since its birth, not only to survive, but also I find relevance to the people in the region but its af- filiated organisations as well With the Regional Training Facility (RTF) making three years since its inception, there are emerging suc- cess stories. For an organisation to be able to survive only at the mercy of development and cooperation partners, with almost all its staff working as volunteers and interns, and yet delivers on its mandate, is beyond imagination. It is prudent to point out that RTF survived largely because of good will from the member states of Interna- tional Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), local and international partners, and unparalleled com- mitment by the staff at its secretariat in Kampala. However, these achievements, despite the financial and human resource handicaps, should not be taken for granted. There is need to equip the facility while working Meeting of Ministers of Defence of the ICGLR Member States, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo with ICGLR’s national coordina- tion mechanisms and national coordinators to work effectively and efficiently on its SGBV man- local date. High level regional meet There is also need to focus solutions more on the justice sector as the key driver for change in Sexual Commitment and Gender Based Violence on SGBV opens in Kampala by the regional (SGBV) prevention and punish- ment, as enshrined in the respec- Member States tive protocol, while mechanisms to tackle the are put in place to reduce stigma The programme of the conference in brief problem of and empower current and future SGBV in the survivors to speak out and seek justice from the established from page 1 Great Lakes mechanisms, such as special Region offers courts. Day national laws and effective policies rapporteur for ease of reporting to an important The commitment by the re- Will be the official opening against SGBV”; “collaboration support overall rapporteur. gional Member States to tackle 1.ceremony, Key note among CSOs , Judicial and Penal The Pact on Security, Stability test and the problem of SGBV in the Great addresses, and a session on Institutions in addressing and and Development in the Great pointer that Lakes Region offers an important “Fighting Sexual Violence in enhancing justice for SGBV” Sexual Lakes Region commits member home-grown test and pointer that home- Conflict Situations-Obligation and “Feasibility of having Special states of ICGLR to prevent, solutions grown solutions can deliver as we to eradicate illegal armed groups Courts or Special court Sessions and criminalise and punish acts of have witnessed. and special court procedures on sexual violence in both times of Much as SGBV may not be and negative forces in the region”. Gender compared to conventional war- This will be a session of UN, SGBV”. peace and times of war (article 11). fare, it is a matter that requires sustained attention for AU and ICGLR commanders in In these sessions, a combination Based Furthermore, the ICGLR has it to be eradicated, because it adversely affects the hu- conflict zones. There will also expertise from Honourable Chief Violence a Protocol on Prevention and man race. The ICGLR, having emerged in the late 1990s be a session on general trends Justices, judges, prosecutors, law Suppression of Sexual and Gender out of the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in implementing the ICGLR enforcers and heads of police and The ICGLR Based Violence which together (DRC), is now mature and up to the task - as the world instruments: progress, challenges prisons plus input from civil with the ICGLR Pact was signed has so far witnessed. With formal structures established and recommendations-as seen society is expected to give the best has a Protocol and ratified by all ICGLR Member such as RTF, from the national to the regional level, the from the ICGLR secretariat and options to fight impunity in SGBV on Prevention States. future of the region is brighter. the Regional civil society forum. crimes as they debate options and and Among others, the Protocol For instance, as opposed to the period before ICGLR, learn best practices from different calls for its domestication and the no external intervention in any matter can be undertaken The afternoon of Day 1 will be the Suppression without knocking on the doors of the leadership of the opening of the Regional Training jurisdictions. The sessions will of Sexual and role of parliamentarians is crucial also include an extensive look at in this regard. The Protocol also Conference Member States. Facility offices. Gender Based Originally, formed to forge a common security plat- human trafficking as a form of establishes the Regional Training form for the region, ICGLR has developed into a formal Day sexual violence and its emerging Violence Facility on Prevention of sexual institutional structure, with meetings held at the heads Will cover sessions on manifestations in refuges, IDPs which violence with the mandate to train of state and government level every two years; a forum 2.Domestication of ICGLR camps and the host communities. together with and sensitize judicial officers, for regional ministers who take executive decisions; instruments and standard the ICGLR police officers, social workers, national coordinators and national-level coordination setting from multi- dimensional Day Pact was medical officers and all those mechanisms; and an executive secretariat headquartered perspectives. The participants It is the last day where individual that handle cases of in Burundi. These elements are meant to support the ef- will benefit from inputs of there will be a briefing signed and sexual violence in the ICGLR fective implementation of the decisions from the ICGLR 3. ratified by summit, but most importantly to follow-up and advance parliamentarians, national on the vision of ICGLR-RTF in member states. the 2006 ICGLR Pact on Security, Stability and Devel- coordinators and ministers its training programmes from all ICGLR This facility has been opment in the Great Lakes Region which we are here to and other stakeholders. It will regional to national levels. There Member functioning for three years now witness today. be an opportunity to examine will be discussion on mobilising States. and trained over 450 professional the richness within ICGLR resources with member states stakeholders on how effectively the instruments and framework and partners to support the to handle cases of sexual violence. great to combat the crime of sexual ICGLR-RTF programmes. There It has also been able to acquire lakes violence. will also be group discussions on a permanent home, thanks to On the same day, there will conclusions as per the themes and the financial support of the A publication of the International Conference on the Great be more three sessions namely: special sessions for Ministers of Government of the Netherlands Lakes Region - Regional Training Facility. (ICGRL-RTF) on experiences of translation gender, parliamentarian and civil through the NICHE project. December 2017. international and regional society on follow up actions. Copyright 2017 UGAMEDIA Services Ltd. (+256772498411) instruments to enforceable Each session shall have a Design and Layout - RM Technologies & Printers Ltd. (+256754865185) the great 3 2017 region

February 28, 2013. The RIMC approved the establishment of the Regional Training Facility in Uganda.

cial regional facility for training the regional member states. col on Prevention and punish- and sensitizing judicial officers, One cannot talk about RTF ment of the Crime of Genocide, police units, social workers, without acknowledging the fact war crimes, and crimes against medical officers and other cat- that, true to its objectives, it has Humanity and all Forms of dis- What is egories of persons who handle provided regional knowledge- crimination; Summit decisions key cases of sexual violence in the generation, scientific evidence on SGBV, the Goma Declaration Great Lakes Region. gathering, early warning, docu- of June 2008, then the Kampala role In fulfillment of this obliga- mentation and sharing frame- Summit Declaration on SGBV tion, Uganda offered, during the work while facilitating demand- of December 2011 where ‘Baby Like any baby, December 2011 Summit at Mun- led networking events and a RTF” was delivered in a labour RTF could not Regional yonyo, Kampala to host this spe- regional SGBV training network ward at Munyonyo, Kampala. be nurtured cial Regional Training Facility. available to training stakehold- Like any baby, RTF could not Therefore on 28th Febru- ers. be nurtured without the Kin- without the ary 2013, the Regional Inter- The other specific objective shasa Communiqué of July 2012 Kinshasa Ministerial Committee (RIMC) of RTF is to form training ma- which called for special courts Communiqué received the Concept and bud- terials for practitioners in the to try SGBV cases, domestica- Training of July 2012 get from ICGLR Secretariat and management of SGBV cases, and tion of the relevant laws; and approved the establishment of provide a database of regional Zero Tolerance Now campaign which called the Regional Training Facility in and international technical ex- launched in respective member for special Uganda. perts for quality enhancement of states. The RTF was launched on SGBV training across the Region. With RTF set for take-off, a courts to try Facility ? 18th February 2014 in Kampala Among the key functions host agreement between the SGBV cases, with the mission of being the of RTF has been organising government of Uganda and the domestication leading research, information, regional training courses for secretariat of ICGLR was signed of the relevant frica’s Great Lakes remain a challenge in the Great education, training and shar- senior and higher level stake- in 2014. region had been en- Lakes Region. ing facility on SGBV in the Great holders including the Training The role of RTF in the region laws; and Zero veloped in armed However, the region is deter- Lakes Region. of Trainers. has been to provide skills on Tolerance Now and civil conflicts mined to contain it because it The RTF’s Mission Statement In the same manner that a hu- “how to” do what needs to be campaign for decades, in which has passed policies to address is to provide quality training man being comes to the world, done by all SGBV stakeholders, thousandsA of people have per- it, and the Regional Training and training materials to profes- first by a mother getting preg- especially to look for evidence launched in ished and a huge number left ei- Facility on Prevention and Sup- sional groups that deal with sur- nant and then giving birth, so is to fight impunity, develop and respective ther traumatised or maimed for pression of Sexual and Gender vivors of SGBV to improve the the elaborate journey of RTF. maintain an SGBV knowledge member states. the rest of their lives. Based Violence, is one such av- response to SGBV in the region RTF came into existence database relevant for all catego- Many of the people affected enue aimed at preventing and with the key objective of being through the Pact on Security, ries of trainees namely judicial by these conflicts were largely punishing the perpetrators. a Regional Centre of Excellence Stability and Development in the officers, police, social workers women and children. Whereas In this regard, Article 6(9) of for training and sensitisation of Great Lakes Region (2006, Arti- among others; Curricula and local and international atten- the International Conference on officials and persons who handle cle 11), which is what one would materials development, train- tion focused on relief supplies the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) cases of sexual violence in the equate to the gestation period. ing of trainers and Expert data- as immediate intervention, an- Protocol on the Prevention and Great Lakes Region on how to ef- This followed the Dar es base, Networking and Networks other big threat was emerging, Suppression of Sexual Violence ficiently and effectively perform Salaam Declaration of 2004. information, regional training and that was belligerents engag- against Women and Children - a journey that has not been Then came the Protocol on the courses for senior and higher ing in sexual violence against (2006) was evoked, and a Re- disappointing to the founding Prevention and Suppression of level stakeholders; monitoring women. gional Training Facility (RTF) member states despite numer- Sexual Violence against Women and evaluation, and Quality As- The crime of sexual violence was established. ous challenges ranging from fi- and Children of 2006 Article Six, surance. remains one of the difficult Member States include An- nancial to human resources. clause 9; the ICGLR Protocol on While it is hosted by and lo- crimes to prevent. Impunity is gola, Burundi, Central Africa RTF was formed with a spe- Judicial Cooperation in the same cated in Uganda in the Ministry prevalent and is on the rise in Republic (CAR), Democratic Re- cific objective to develop re- year; and the ICGLR Protocol on of Gender, Labour and Social De- the Great Lakes region. It gets public of Congo (DRC), Republic gional coordination and stan- Non-Aggression and Mutual velopment, RTF operates under worse in conflict situations, but of Congo (Congo Brazzaville), dardised curricula that provides Defence, to prevent escalation the governance and direction of even in peace times it manifests. South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya, common skills, common frame- of conflict - a bedrock of sexual the ICGLR Secretariat in Bujum- Reporting, investigation and Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and works and a common access to crimes. bura, Burundi. prosecution of Sexual and Gen- Zambia. content, an aim which is being RTF could not have come der Based Violence (SGBV) cases These agreed to set up a spe- executed to the satisfaction of to fruition without the Proto-

The inaugural ICGL–RTF training in forensic evidence management for prevention and suppression of sexual violence in the Great Lakes Region at Entebbe, 9-12 December, 2014 thegreat 4 region 2017

The inaugural ICGL–RTF training in forensic eveidnce management for prevention and suppression of sexual violence in the Great Laks Region at Entebbe from 9 to 12 December, 2014

The sixth training workshop took place in December 2016 and it was a colloquium on documentation, in- RTF trains vestigation and reporting of sexual violence in the Great Lakes Region, December 5-6, 2016 at Lake Victoria Serena Golf Course, Entebbe, Uganda. 500 officers The seventh and most recent was a training for Master Trainers, held May 8-12, 2017, Kampala, Uganda, and Supported by Netherlands Initiatives on how to for Capacity Development (NICHE)- Project and World Bank. Since its inception, over 400 po- lice, military, judiciary, medical, jour- handle nalists and prosecution officers have been trained under the RTF. A big boost to the RTF has been provided by World Bank, which has SGBV cases supported a four-year project under “The Great Lakes Emergency Sex- ual and Gender Based Violence and ursuant to Article 11 of the Women’s Health Project,” in which ICGLR Pact, Article 6 (9) of the RTF is to be strengthened to de- the ICGLR Protocol on Pre- liver high quality regional training vention and suppression programmes. of Sexual Violence against In particular, the Project is sup- Pwomen and children, and the Para- porting the RTF to develop and im- graph 14 of the Kampala Declaration plement two high-quality regional on Sexual Violence and the subse- training programmes for judicial and quent ICGLR Summits and the Re- police officers in the area of fighting gional Inter-Ministerial Conference Sexual violence. decisions, the RTF was officially Special focus will be on Training opened on 18th February 2014 and Trainers (ToTs) from ICGLR member operationalized in April 2014 with states who will train in their respec- the appointment of an Acting Direc- tive counties. tor. ecutors, Civil Society, and Journalists in conflict situations respectively. It The picture of what is happening The RTF mandate is to “…train and Officers from in the Great lakes Region. The first was supported by OSRSG-SV and the in the Member States of the Great sensitize police units, judicial offi- ICGLR member Training, organized in December British High Commission (BHC). Lakes Region, those in peace situa- cers, medical officers, Social workers states attend 2014, was for Police officers from The fourth training took place in tions and those experiencing con- and other categories of persons who one of the ICGLR member states; they were July 2016. It was a Symposium on flicts, shows that SGBV is prevalent handle cases of sexual violence in the meetings on trained in Forensic Evidence Manage- “Access to Justice and Fighting Im- and takes various forms. Great Lakes Region” Article 6 (9). SGBV. ment for Prevention and Suppression punity of Sexual Violence in the Great What is clear is that all stakehold- This is in line with the ICGLR com- of Sexual Violence using DNA tech- Lakes Region” supported by the Of- ers ought to appreciate that they do mitment to fight impunity in sexual nology. fice of the Special Envoy of the UN not only need to prevent sexual vio- violence crimes. The Headquarters of This was supported by the UN Of- Secretary General for the Great Lakes lence, but also to minimise all condi- RTF are in Kampala, Uganda. A Host fice of the Special Representative of Region, and African Union Commis- tions that worsen and complicate it Agreement between Government of the Secretary General on Sexual Vio- sion Peace and Security Department. to the benefit of the perpetrator. War Uganda and ICGLR was signed on lence in Conflict (OSRSG-SV). The fifth training took place in and conflict are such conditions, and 18th February 2014. The second and third training September. It was a sensitization and any sustainable intervention in the Since its inception, the RTF has workshops took place in August 2015. training workshop on “Documenta- fight against SGBV must of neces- been able to convene seven major These concentrated on the African tion and Investigation of Sexual Vio- sity address them. There is the legal high profile regional and national Union Commission managing sexual lence Cases in Conflict” with support and policy mechanism in place; let us training workshops for Police, Mili- violence under military justice sys- from the Foreign and Commonwealth all implement it, and we shall have a tary, Medical, Judicial officers, Pros- tem, and managing sexual violence office through the BHC. peaceful Great Lakes Region. the great 5 2017 region

Acting Director Nathan Byamukama: “The RTF will be sustainable and self-reliant in future... it can be done.” Training Facility success story

In its three years of existence, the ported by the UN Women, resigned Regional Training Facility (RTF) has in November 2015 to take up another been dubbed as a success story ac- assignment abroad and has not yet training cording to the status report since its been replaced. The interns and volun- workshops inception to October 2017. teers under the circumstances have The report under the theme, “Con- propped up the RTF, stepping in the We were tributing to Regional Peace, Security gap created by the absence of sub- specifically and Development”, observes that stantive staff. apart from meeting most of its core So far, the RTF has not received able to mandate as highlighted at various the $100, 000 approved by the Re- convene fora, RTF mobilized funds from de- gional Inter-Ministerial Council eight major velopment partners namely the UN (RIMC) and the governing Com- Women, World Bank, African Union mittee as seed money in 2013. This high profile Commission, British High Commis- was supposed to be seed money to regional and sion in Kampala, Dutch Government, recruit some core staff and also mo- national Office of the Special Representative bilise more funds. The lack of fund- of the Secretary General on Sexual ing slowed down operations since training Violence in Conflict, FIDA-Uganda, the RTF worked on a zero budget for workshops Population Council-Kenya, Office of the first two years. The RTF has been for police, the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes kept afloat by funds sourced from military, Region which has helped the facility partners for execution of its mandate. to carry out its mandate. The report notes that the achieve- medical, “The RTF will be sustainable and ment of set goals and objectives is judicial self-reliant in future. With the sup- constrained by lack of staff. Having officers, port of Member States and partners, key staff in acting position means it can be done,” observes Acting Di- that substantive discussions may not prosecutors, rector RTF, Mr Nathan Byamukama. be made. civil For instance, Mr Byamukama The newly and all records found clean, on top budgets were passed, experts and The auditors have already recom- society, and notes that the facility has had over acquired RTF of strengthening the accounting consultancies interviewed and re- mended to ICGLR and RTF’s man- journalists 60 engagements with major partners offices in systems with accounting software cruited. agement to ensure that the centre is and networks in workshops and cour- Munyonyo, (TOMPRO) and trained relevant staff Despite these successes, chal- equipped with the needed resources in the tesy call meetings - some of which Kampala. in systematic control of cash flows lenges abound at RTF. There is in- to fill up the positions envisaged in Great Lakes have yielded more support and fund- using the latest technologies complete institutional structure at the organisation structure. Region,” ing for the institution. The RTF has made use of interns the facility. To achieve its objectives “ICGLR should ensure that RTF “We were specifically able to con- and volunteers in the absence of full and in conformity with the provisions Director’s position is substantially the acting vene eight major high profile regional time staff, who have assisted in or- of the support from the World and filled including the finance depart- director says. and national training workshops for ganizing several meetings, trainings NICHE, the RTF requires a minimum ment should be filled up to ensure police, military, medical, judicial and workshops, among other tasks. of five officers namely, the Director in adequate segregation of duties,” the officers, prosecutors, civil society, The interns and volunteers have so substantive capacity, training coor- audit report recommends. and journalists in the Great Lakes far gained enough capacity and expe- dinator, research, IT and knowledge Others advise caution. “For me, Region,” the acting director says. rience to enable them become assis- production coordinator and project I understand that this is how insti- “A total of 471 officers from police, tants to the core staff at the facility. assistants. tutions work,” says Mama Florence military, judiciary, medical, journal- RTF secretariat has drafted a At the time of compiling the re- Kaku, 54. “Let’s be patient and in- ists and journalists have been trained strategic plan on the basis of which port in October, 2017, the RTF had stead be committed to work. Surely, under the RTF,” he added. The RTF mobilization of funds for the RTF will only the Acting Director paid for by we will get the money because we has been able to set up a fully func- be made. the ICGLR Secretariat and the Ac- have now [worked] for many days.” tional dynamic website for hosting RTF has also hosted two ICGLR- countant recruited and supported by selected training modules, laws, pro- World Bank-RTF consultative meet- the World Bank. The senior gender tocols, and good practices related to ings, during which work plans and expert, whose recruitment was sup- prevention and punishment of SGBV for officers who handle SGBV cases. “There is no doubt that the RTF is a needed mechanism in Africa gen- erally and the Great Lakes Region in particular. Although a number of training centres and institutions on the continent provide courses for preventing and responding to sexual violence, no institution has a com- prehensive pogramme on SGBV that is comparable to the RTF concept,” notes the African Union Commission, Peace and Security Department in the report. “With NICHE (Netherlands), we have secured a permanent home for the ICGLR-RTF which will be able to accommodate close to 20 offices.” This is much bigger than where the facility has been since inception. The new home has already hosted train- ing of Master trainers that started on October 2017. The facility hopes to move further in the coming years to secure land from the government of Uganda that they have been promised, to con- struct a centre of excellence where training, work, restaurant, leisure and accommodation will be catered for. The RTF has been audited three times; twice by the World Bank and once by the ICGLR Secretariat, The ICGLR Executive Secretary Ambassador Zakary Muburi-Muita (wearing red tie) with some of the RTF secretariat staff thegreat 6 region 2017

speech With unity, no security problem that can defeat us, says Museveni

Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, addressed the 4th Extraordinary Summit and Special Session on the Sexual Gender-Based Violence in the Great Lakes Region at Munyonyo, Kampala in December 2011 and The Great Lakes Region Magazine reproduces the extracts of his speech below:

You are most welcome to the 4th where. At Bwanga, the next village, Extraordinary Summit and Special the language of the Wahuma, which Session of the International Confer- we had heard continually since leav- ence on the Great Lakes Region. We ing the Albert Nyanza, ceases and the launched the Great Lakes Conference Unyamwezi, interpreters had now to on the 15th of December, 2006. It is, be employed, which fact the skeptical therefore, now 5 years old. This is Zanzibaris hailed as being evidence not, however, the first time a large that we were approaching Pwani (the part of this part of Africa has been Coast)”. linked. The traveller Ibn Battuta Of course, what Stanley could not wrote as follows: detect is the closeness of the Sukuma “After one night in Mombasa, we – Kinyamwezi dialects with what he sailed to Kilwa, a large City on the called the “Wahuma language” spo- coast whose inhabitants are black. ken from the Ituri forest in Congo to A merchant told me that a fort- Mwanza. night’s sail beyond Kilwa lies Sofala, By writing thus, these strangers where gold is brought from a place had long realized the oneness of the a month’s journey inland called Yufi. peoples of the Great Lakes. Their The city of Kilwa is among the fin- dialects were part of the same lan- est and most substantially built in the guage. Later on, some scholars have President Yoweri Museveni addresses Sexual and Gender Based Violence Summit world. Its Sultan at the time of visit described these people as the inter- was Abu’L – Mazaffar Hasan, sur- lacustrine Bantu – the Bantus of the named Abu Al-Mawahib (the father Lakes. form of description. While in the ing area – Bushwahili (the coast), of Gifts), renowned for his humility, These Bantus of the Lakes have dialects of North Western Tanza- Karagwe-Buhaya, Rwanda, Buleega needed the linkages. Long Distance generosity and hospitality. I saw at close cultural links with the Nilotic, nia, Uganda, etc. the word for clay is (Congo) – hence the name of one of Wanyamwezi travellers, known as his court many sharifs, from Iraq and Sudanic and Cushitic peoples of bbumba like our Minister of Gender our Kings, Kabaleega, Bukiri (North- Balungaanwa in Uganda, would bring the region of Mecca…the people of the Great Lakes, when you hear any or eibumba (ibumba), etc. There is ern Uganda), etc. Trade was intense. goods from the Coast and take back Kilwa were engaged in jihad because one of the languages or dialects of a place called Bumba in DRC, down- Textiles, guns, glass-beads, etc., ivory from Uganda. they are on a common mainland with Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, etc. stream from Kisangani. Does it have were coming from the Coast. Ivory During the colonial times, our the heathen zanj (black) people and known as Kinyanja. What does it anything to do with clay? In Swahili, (emiino) was coming from Buganda, leaders struggled together through contiguous to them….”. mean? It, apparently, means the lan- we talk of Wimbo wa Taifa, meaning Bunyoro, etc. Copper (ebikomo, emi- PAFMECSA (Pan-African free- This was in the year 1331. Ibn Bat- guage of the Lake – Lake Nyasa in this national anthem. ringa) were coming from Congo and dom fighters for Eastern, Central tuta is telling us that not only was case. What does the word “Nyasa” In Acholi (Luo), we talk of Lubala – so were amooshe (arm wear made and Southern Africa). The Libera- the East African Coast linked, North mean? It means Lake. What do we meaning anthem, specifically differ- out of giraffe tail hairs). tion Movements of this area met in to South, but that also the Coast was call “Lake” in the dialects of East Af- entiated from a song which is called When we launched the Great Mwanza, Tanzania (Tanganyika), linked with the interior as far inland rica and Eastern Congo? We call it: wer. If Swahili was enriched with Lakes Conference in 2006, there- etc., in the years 1958, and the sub- as the present Zimbabwe, the land Nyanza, Nyanja, Nyanzha, depend- the vocabulary of the interior, as the fore, we were re-activating the old sequent ones such as 1962 in Addis of Yufi (which was the source of the ing on the dialects. Indeed, this was Tanzanians did with the word Ikulu linkages. These linkages in the pre- Ababa. When the East African coun- gold dust that was traded through very confusing to H. M. Stanley. As meaning State House, we would cre- colonial period were, of course, being tries got freedom in 1961-1964, some Sofala). He also talked of Sofala in a consequence, in his book, In Dark- ate the richest human language that inconvenienced by the ignorance of of the leaders actively supported the Mozambique. est Africa Vol.II (P.252), he noted as has ever existed. the chiefs who would inconvenience anti-colonial struggle in Southern It is also recorded that on No- follows: Anyway, the main point is that the traders by extortionate taxes known Africa (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, An- vember 5th, 1876, H. M. Stanley left “…As for the Nyanzas the num- concept of the Great Lakes linkage is as hongo during the time when Henry gola, Namibia and South Africa). Nyangwe on the River Congo to float ber became perplexing. There is not new. Long before colonialism, Morton Stanley travelled through When the Independence of Congo downwards towards the Atlantic the Nyanza of Unyoro, the Nyanza of we had clear linkages and under- the continent in the 1870s. However, (DRC) was disrupted by the schemes Ocean. Travellers, traders and slave Usongola, the Nyanza of Unyampaka, standing of much of the surround- the Africans persisted because they of the Imperialists, the East African traders were able to move from the the Nyanza of Toro, the Nyanza of countries plus Congo Brazzaville Coast of East Africa up to the River Semliki, the Nyanza of Unyavingi, the took a correct stand of resisting these Congo. The same Stanley, on his trip Nyanza of Karagwe and the Nyanza of schemes. Eventually, Africa assisted to rescue Emin Pasha between 1886 Uganda…” the people of DRC to get rid of the and 1889, wrote in his book, In Dark- Above all, we have the distillate puppet regime of Mobutu. est Africa Vol.II (P.366) as follows: dialect of Swahili that was distilled The genocide in Rwanda was “By a gradual rise from Amranda from all these Bantu dialects, Arabic, reopening old linkages stopped by the Rwandese Patriotic Southward we escaped after a few Portuguese, etc., into a hybrid form Front (RPF) assisted by the people of miles out of the unlovely plains to of speech that is useful in linking the When we launched the Great Lakes Conference in 2006, East Africa. The peace in the Sudan older land producing a better quality peoples of Africa. I always argue therefore, we were re-activating the old linkages. These was the work of the people of Sudan of timber. Before we were 100 feet that Swahili should be enriched with themselves and the people of the Re- above the lake a visible improvement the richer dialects from the interior. linkages in the pre-colonial period were, of course, being gion. It is the Region that helped us had taken place: the acacia had dis- Only yesterday, I was discussing with inconvenienced by the ignorance of the chiefs who would to get rid of Idi Amin in 1979. appeared, and the myombo, a tree some East Africans about the word inconvenience traders by extortionate taxes known as In particular, we must salute the whose bark is useful for native cloth “clay”. following leaders who contributed to and for boxes and which might be In Swahili, apparently, clay is called hongo during the time when Henry Morton Stanley the total liberation of Africa: the late adapted for canoes, flourished every- udongo finyasi, which sounds like a travelled through the continent in the 1870s. Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Dr. Kenneth the great 7 2017 region

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Kaunda, the late General Samora Ma- Victims.” chel, Agostinho Neto, Eduardo Dos Addressing this subject from a Santos, H.E. Robert Mugabe, the late historical perspective, I think that Janet Museveni roots for Dr. John Garang, H.E. General Salva it is a shameful subject considering Kiir, the late Fred Rwigyema, H.E. that many of our African cultures did President Paul Kagame, the late Lau- not take kindly to harsh treatment of Africa support systems to rent Kabila, H.E. Mzee Nelson Man- women. Women in my culture were dela, the late Oliver Tambo, etc. pampered and spoiled because a fam- Apart from political liberation, ily that treated women badly was fight gender violence there are now three clear efforts in penalised by being denied the right this Region: democratisation, free to marry from respectable families. market policies and integration. Therefore, there is no good reason in These three are good value addition present day Africa why sexual vio- On December 15, 2011, the First Lady of the Republic of Uganda, to our independence. If they are con- lence should be tolerated especially solidated, we are poised to soar to as we struggle to stabilize our na- Hon. Janet K. Museveni delivered a speech on ICGLR Special great heights. tions. Therefore, the only thing I can Session on Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) on the say here is that indeed there should While the world has been in eco- be “zero tolerance” on this practice theme, ““United to Prevent SGBV, End Impunity and Provide nomic turmoil, the Region has been and to allow impunity in this era is in- experiencing growth rates of be- deed indiscipline of the highest order. Support to the Victims of SGBV in the Great Lake Region”. This tween 4.4% and 5.9%. This is inevi- I am informed that in Uganda, table because these economies have, Gender-based Violence is reportedly publication reproduces her address below. for the last 500 years, been operating far below their potential. If we could focus on infrastruc- would like to most warmly welcome all our visi- forms of sexual and gender-based violence against ture development, the sky would be tors to Uganda, especially those traveling here women which cannot be overlooked nor justified the limit. The late Mwalimu Nyer- for the first time. Please, feel at home and enjoy on the grounds of tradition and culture.Needless ere and Mzee Kaunda, assisted by our country; because our home is your home to say, most cases of sexual violence involve female the Chinese, linked Dar-es-Salaam and we hope that this will be a memorable visit victims and male perpetrators. However, men and to Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia. We, the value addition forI you all. young boys can also be vulnerable to sexual violence present generation of leaders, should It is good and right to participate in this historic especially in detention or war or refugee situations. link Tanga with Port Bell, Kasese with Apart from political conference on sexual and gender-based violence There is also the sexual abuse of children, a sub- Kisangani, Gulu with Juba by rail, which is aimed at discussing how we can unite as ject that is really difficult to talk about. It is very Kasese with Gisenyi, etc. Lake Tan- liberation, there are now governments and peoples of the Great Lakes Region painful to acknowledge that sexual abuse of children ganyika, Lake Victoria, Lake Edward three clear efforts in this to prevent this violence, end impunity and find real including infants happens in our society every day! (Butumbi Rutshuru), Lake Albert Region: democratisation, mechanisms to support the victims of these shame- Yet we know that many cases are not reported to (Mwitanzigye) should be made into ful acts. authorities due to social acceptance of these prac- highways of water transport. free market policies and The opportunity for us to discuss the problem of tices, or the stigma most abused women face, or fear Above all, we must electrify this integration. These three are sexual and gender-based violence and collectively of more violence from partners, or failure by authori- Region according to each country’s good value addition to our work out solutions couldn’t have come at a better ties to act on the perpetrators and the absence of plan or according to the Regional independence. If they are time. enforcement of relevant laws to punish the culprits. master plan. The present levels of A time when social values in our African communi- Ladies and Gentlemen, as I mentioned before, the kilowatt hour (kWh) per capita are consolidated, we are poised ties are disintegrating, when the family unit is threat- time is now for our governments to be up and run- too low in this part of the world. to soar to great heights. ened by some negative foreign cultural influences, ning in advancing effective laws preventing gender- This is not acceptable. In Uganda, when gender-based violence is, painfully, increasing based violence and enforcing policies that ensure we have also found Universal Educa- in our society. survivors’ access to care and legal justice. tion quite useful. As we speak today, on the increase. I note many times Sexual violence comes in many forms but the That entails governments to bring on board bodies almost one third of the population that our media show that mostly most often cited is rape and defilement. However, that have shown in practice that they care to support of Uganda’s 33 million people are in women are often the victims of do- sexual and gender-based violence encompasses a the weaker victims in this battle - bodies such as schools – Primary, Secondary, Ter- mestic and sexual violence. This has wide range of other abuses that may include sexual FIDA and others. Strengthen them so that they can tiary and University. Our struggle resulted in some women dying and threats, exploitation, humiliation, assault, molesta- be empowered to reach communities where they are is now to give them skills on top of many have suffered from sexually tion, domestic violence, incest, and rape. needed most. numeracy and alphabetisation. transmitted diseases including HIV/ In Uganda, the practice of female genital mutila- Secondly, our leaders at every level in our coun- One of the main purposes of the AIDS. tion and other harmful traditional practices (includ- tries must invest time in our communities and sen- Great Lakes Conference was secu- The Uganda Police Crime Report ing early marriage, which substantially increases ma- sitize the people about the dangers of gender-based rity in the Region. The key to this is for 2008 shows that 1,536 cases of ternal morbidity and mortality), in all sincerity are violence. Religious leaders and civil society organi- inter-state co-operation. If the Af- rape were reported to Police com- zations can also play a vital role in educating and rican countries co-operate, assisted pared to 511 cases in 2007, indicating guiding the masses as well as counseling and provid- by the international community, more than 100% increase! ing psycho-social support to the victims. there is no security problem that can Some studies have suggested that Our people need to be encouraged to solve domes- defeat us. We defeated the Lord’s there is a strong link between the risk tic problems non-violently and to treat each other Resistance Army (LRA) through of domestic violence and alcohol con- with respect regardless of gender or gender roles. co-operating with the brothers and sumption which I have learned has There is need now more than ever before to re- sisters of South Sudan, DRC and Cen- been steadily rising. build our African community structure and family tral African Republic. Agali awamu Women have made public com- support systems; where individuals feel more sup- ge galuma enyama – meaning (the plaints to me, petitioning me to re- ported, protected, secured and loved; and where teeth that are a whole are the ones instate the Graduated tax which the each serves as his or her brother’s keeper. that can successfully chew meat); in NRM Government abolished. They Thirdly, community-based efforts especially other words, unity is strength. I am are convinced that perhaps men may awareness-raising campaigns involving grassroots sorry about the inadequacy of the not have to drink the whole day if leaders and communities can play a crucial role. Lo- English language. It does not have they had reason to work. Apparently, cal media especially radio and public meetings and comparably rich vocabulary in com- without the obligation to pay gradu- debates can be used to change the attitudes of the parison to the African dialects for ated tax, men are no longer pushed people on sexual and gender-based violence. some of these meanings. Notice the to work and, therefore, ‘drink them- Women should not only be looked at as victims too many English words I must use to selves to the grave’. but should be integrated in these prevention efforts vainly try to convey the same mean- This is a pathetic situation and as agents of change. Men must also be actively en- ing captured in the Luganda proverb indeed as I said already it is a real gaged in the campaign. where I use only four words. I use shame to the generation of the Afri- Let me end by thanking again the organizers of fourteen words to vainly attempt to can men today who behave like this. this conference especially this session. translate a proverb where we use If we have never felt ashamed in the In particular let me applaud the team of Ambassa- only four words. past because of the famines that kill dor Mulamula for refusing to give up on us and fight- That now brings me to the sub- our children, or the HIV/AIDS scourge ing so hard to ensure that this session is included. ject this Conference is called upon that wiped off whole communities But I say to you, in conclusion, let us get even more to address. The subject of “Sexual because of irresponsible lifestyles, I determined to ensure the success of the resolutions and Gender-based Violence”, but the think, time has come for Africans to of this conference and go out and implement them. Theme is: “United to Prevent Sexual really reconsider their lifestyles so The First Lady Janet Museveni addresses and Gender-based Violence, End Im- that we change for the better. the meeting. Aluta continua! punity and Provide Support to the I thank you very much and I wel- Thank you for listening to me! God bless you! thegreat 8 region 2017

nterview with the acting Director RTF, Mr Nathan Byamukama The journey to the Kampala Declaration on Sexual Violence

Why was it called the Kampala Declaration? takes place every after 2 years). When RIMC took place in Brazza- t is because it was signed by ville six months later, the ministers Heads of state and Government of foreign affairs who constitute the in Kampala, Uganda on 16th De- Regional Inter ministerial commit- cember 2010 (which is actually tee (RIMC) deliberated and agreed my birth day). to use the opportunity of the Ordi- IThe venue was Munyonyo Com- nary summit to have a special ses- monwealth Speke Resort. The Sum- sion during the Ordinary summit. In mit was from 15-16th December 2011. their Communiqué at the end of the The context is that under paragraph meeting held in Brazzaville, Republic 10 of the Final Communiqué of the of Congo on 6th May 2011, “directed 3rd Ordinary Summit of the ICGLR the Secretariat in collaboration Heads of State and Government held with the stakeholders to organise a in Lusaka on 10th August 2009, it special session on SGBV during the was “agreed that the Summit would ICGLR Ordinary Summit to be held be held every two years on 15th De- on 15th December 2011 in Kampala, cember and that Uganda will be the Uganda and decided that the theme next Chairperson of the ICGLR” . of the Summit should be “United to This decision was reached by the Prevent, end impunity and Provide ICGLR Heads of State who included Support to the Victims of SGBV”. HE President Yoweri Museveni and all the follow-up mechanisms (in- How were Women (under the Regional cluding the National Coordination Women Forum) able to reach Heads of Mechanism (NCM), the Conference state with their request? Secretariat and the Regional Inter- Ministerial Committee (RIMC) have The ICGLR mechanism pro- been working towards a 4th Ordi- vides space for ICGLR Fora to nary Summit to take Place in Uganda 1.address Heads of State. These Fora on 15th December 2011. include the Regional Women Forum, Consequently, under paragraph the Regional Civil Society Forum, 10 of the Communiqué of the ICGLR the Regional Youth Forum, the Fo- Mr Nathan Byamukama, the acting director of ICGLR Regional –Inter-ministerial Com- rum of Parliaments. In this particu- mittee (RIMC) meeting composed of lar case we had organised a meeting Ministers of Foreign Affairs - then at Mulungushi Conference centre in on Illegal Exploitation of Natural of Natural Resources in the Great gion to respond and strengthen their 11 Member States (now they are 12 Zambia from 12-14th December 2010 Resources (Lusaka Zambia, 12th – Lakes Region. To the Summit they efforts towards an urgent, effective after South Sudan Joined ICGLR ) where a High Level Capacity Devel- 16th December 2010) to: ; (ii) rec- summarised it all. The request was and collective action to end SGBV. that was held between 5th-6th May opment Workshop on Women, Peace ommended to the Heads of States to granted without any debate and in- Specifically, the work of the Consul- 2011 it is stated that “The meeting and Security in the Great Lakes Re- convene a Special Summit on Sexual structions were given for follow up. tant consisted in : i) analyzing the ex- confirmed the dates of 15th Decem- gion; under the auspices of the ICGLR Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in the tent of SGBV as it is now in the Great ber 2011 for the next Summit to be Regional Women Forum to discuss Great Lakes Region; (iii) to Institu- So what steps then did you take from the Lakes Region, including information/ preceded by the RIMC from 13th to and prepare a statement to Ministers tionalize representation and par- Summit and subsequent RIMCs? data collection on the prevalence of 14th December 2011 in Kampala, and Heads of State meeting. Fifty ticipation of women from the public, We basically left to generate SGBV in the region through meetings Uganda”. Uganda was represented five delegates and participants from women’s organizations and from the strategies for a successful summit. with key actors (NGOs, government by HON Crispus Kiyonga who was 10 Member Countries of the ICGLR private sector, in specialized bodies The RIMC that followed took place and other relevant partners) and re- representing Hon Sam Kutesa dur- gathered at Mulungushi Interna- responsible for combating illegal in Brazzaville. We started working to view of literature; ii) exploring the ing the RIMC. tional Conference Centre in Lusaka, exploitation of natural resources; involve all stakeholders to generate frameworks in place, both legal and Zambia from 12-14 December 2010. (iv) to ensure urgent ratification, data and information that would bet- institutional, to address SGBV, such How then did it turn out to be a Special In their declaration, participants : domestication and implementation ter provide useful recommendations as preventive measures and those session on SGBV? (i) Appreciative of the determina- of all outstanding ICGLR Pact, AU to the Heads of State related to comprehensive support In December 2010, during the tion of the ICGLR member states to Protocols, UN Instruments; (v) to A conference paper was produced and assistance to SGBV victims at Special Summit on Illegal Exploi- combat illegal exploitation of natu- take corrective measures for failure for the Special Session on SGBV dur- national and regional level; iii) to ex- tation of Natural Resources, it was ral resources by convening a special by member states to domestic and ing the 4th ICGLR Summit of Heads amining the efforts taken by govern- decided that the following Summit summit; acknowledged the progress implement the ICGLR Pact, (vi) Ac- of State and Government. The pa- ments to address SGBV and give an would focus on Sexual and Gender so far made in establishing mecha- celerate the development of Inte- per was based on the research find- appraisal of which responses can be Based Violence. nisms and systems at national and grated National Action Plans for the ings and major contributions from qualified as best practices that can This was a result of the request by regional levels to respond to these systematic implementation of ICGLR stakeholders including inputs from be replicated. the Regional Women Forum to the issues; Pact, AU Protocols and relevant UN national consultations on SGBV. A A documented situation on the Head of States during the 2010 Sum- (iii) expressed their concern that, Instruments with clear monitor- research was commissioned by the extent of SGBV in the then 11 ICGLR mit. despite the normative progress, sig- ing and evaluation indicators and Conference Secretariat and sup- Member States and its impact in the The Heads of State under the then nificant gaps in the framing, ratifica- targets; (vii) Prioritize and commit ported by the UN Women to scan the region reflected in comprehensive Chairmanship of HE Rupia Banda, tion, domestication and implemen- resources (human and financial) for region and to contribute to the global reports from National consultations the former President of Zambia ac- tation still remains. effective prevention and protection assessment on what really exists on on Sexual and Gender Based Violence cepted the request and gave a go against SGBV and rehabilitation of the ground in the 11 Member States (SGBV) was developed. The consul- ahead to organise one. They addressed both RIMC survivors; Finally, (viii) request in- in the context of the ICGLR protocol tations at the national level were co- The year 2011 was the next avail- 2.and Summit. To ministers clusion of the above recommenda- on SGBV. ordinated by the Focal Person of the able opportunity since it was to be they called upon the Regional Inter- tions in the Regional Inter-Ministe- The aim was to generate back- Regional Women Forum, working to- a regular summit as provided un- Ministerial Committee (RIMC) of rial Committee Report to the Special ground information that would guide gether with the Ministries of Gender der the Pact (the Summit ordinarily ICGLR sitting at the Special Summit Summit on Illegal Exploitation governments in the Great Lakes Re- and the ICGLR National Coordinator the great 9 2017 region

in each ICGLR Member State with the ministry in charge of gender. following achievements/results: (i)Civil society organizations, in- cluding the youth, and government What role did the first Ladies play? organs were mobilised for consulta- A declaration was made by the tions at the national level on the is- first ladies that highlight their will- sue of SGBV; ingness to support advocacy efforts (ii) Guidelines were drafted by the of the RWF and to include SGBV is- Conference Secretariat and adapted sues in their social activities. The to national context with the purpose declaration was also presented to of facilitating national consultations; the Heads of State Summit. (iii)National reports from 11 ICGLR The First Lady’s meeting took Member States were developed and place on the sidelines of the Sum- translated in English and French. The mit and engaged First Ladies or reports highlight the root causes of their representatives from Member SGBV in the country under study, the States so as they could lobby and extent of the problem, the measures support advocacy efforts of the Re- in place to prevent SGBV, punish the gional Women Forum in preventing, perpetrators and assist the SGBV ending impunity and assisting the survivors. This information from na- SGBV survivors. The outcome was tional reports was used to enrich the a declaration from first ladies that overall regional report on SGBV. highlight their willingness to sup- The ICGLR regional meeting of port advocacy efforts of the RWF and experts on SGBV meeting in Arusha, to include SGBV issues in their social Tanzania in November 2011 gathered activities. key actors including regional and in- One of the major decision that ternational NGO and UN agencies, emerged from the First Ladies is De- Elderly women from Nairobi slums learn martial arts in order to survive danger in Kenya’s shanty towns. Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) cisions No.18 on empowerment of researchers and academia, Regional professional civil society organisa- Economic Communities (REC) with tions such as FIDA to support victims national and regional expertise in of SGBV. the field of SGBV and its implica- A few days to the conference I had Elderly women in Kenya tions. The objective of the meeting an opportunity to accompany the was to contribute and to validate the former Executive Secretary, Ambas- findings of the regional research on sador Liberata Mulamula, to meet SGBV commissioned by the Confer- the First Lady Hon Janet Museveni, learn karate to fight ence Secretariat. and in the discussions the Executive The outcome of the regional Secretary asked the First Lady what meeting was a conference paper she thought should be done. Without that included key recommendations any moment’s delay, she said govern- sexual assault in slums from national consultations and ments should support civil society from civil society organizations of organisations such as FIDA to effec- n poor Kenyan communities drugs, alcohol and when it enters also a counsellor for rape victims. the region. The recommendations tively support victims of SGBV. the rates of sexual assault their head, they can’t differentiate “If there is a girl, they will open were essentially related to 3 com- Resolution 18 of Kampala Declara- are staggeringly high — but between their elders and young up to me. I’ll say to her, ‘It’s good to ponents namely prevention, ending tion actually came from Hon Janet also hard to quantify. That is girls,” Ms Nyariara said. tell me’, because even if you tell me impunity and providing support to K Museveni. That view found itself because most are never re- “We found someone to train a little, I will understand. I can take SGBV victims. in the declaration of the First Ladies Iported. us. We started doing karate. As we you to the right people for treat- The final report with the experts’ which was also presented to the But a group of grandmothers has continued, young men realised we ment. Keeping quiet only makes it contributions was submitted for Heads of State Summit and adopted. had enough and they are fighting won’t be hurt and started backing.” harder,” she said. consideration to Ministers of Gen- back — literally. Most of the women in this group The self defence training has der National Coordinators, Ministers What were the dynamics at the Kampala Korogosho is one of the many in- have either been sexually assaulted helped to reduce the number of (RIMC) and Summit. The Summit Summit in 2011? formal settlements in Nairobi. It is personally, or they know someone reported rapes in Korogosho by 15 approved the recommendations with As I said earlier, the agenda of the a slum. who has. per cent. some amendments and also added ordinary summit included a special It is there that a group of grand- Kenya police estimate that 85 Ms Nyariara has already used more recommendations adding up session on SGBV under the theme: mothers is using elements from per cent of sexual crimes are not her skills in a home invasion, when to 19 decisions from the original 15 “United to prevent, end impunity wrestling and karate to protect reported. a young man broke in at night. of the experts and Ministers. Iam and provide support to the Victims themselves and each other as part Jane Waithegeni was gang- “When he entered I hit him. He glad the whole region has taken this of SGBV” as decided by the Regional of a program that tries to prevent raped more than 10 years ago. She fell on his back. I stepped on his declaration seriously. Inter ministerial Committee (RIMC) sexual assault. was abducted from a public bus. balls. And he said, ‘Granny — don’t held in Brazzaville in May 2011. The Ferocious grandmother, 74-year- “They removed my shirt and kill me’.” What Role Ministers of Gender Play? Heads of State therefore met in De- old Beatrice Nyariara, is in the mid- blindfolded me. I was taken to a Ms Nyariara said police and se- ICGLR organised a high level cember 2011 in Kampala, Uganda, dle of training. second car, then to a third car. I was curity have only recently arrived in consultation with the Ministers re- and were presented a report from “It is very unsafe because before held for three days and raped. They the community. sponsible for Gender from 11 ICGLR the Ministers in charge of Gender on we started this group of old women gave me HIV,” Ms Waithegeni said. Too late for too many. Member States. They met prior the recommended measures to prevent like me, a lot of old women used to Now Ms Waithegeni is a physical Summit under the coordination of women and children against SGVB, be raped by young men. They take trainer for these women, but she is — Agencies the Conference Secretariat to discuss punish perpetrators and assist the and adopt the report from experts. SGBV survivors. The meeting took place in Arusha, The outcome of the summit was Tanzania. The aim of the high level an adoption of the Kampala Declara- consultation was to gather consen- tion that committed Member States sus from a political point of view on to implement a number of measures issues related to national commit- with a timeframe of implementation ment on the protection and compen- to confront the scourge of SGBV and sation for SGBV survivors, punish- contribute to a paradigm shift in ment of perpetrators and assistance template of the Great Lakes Region to survivors. The result was the renown as a conflict-ridden region adoption of a declaration with key to one of peace, harmony and oppor- recommendations by ministers in tunities where women, children and charge of gender and their decision men will be safe, secure and produc- to lobby their respective govern- tive. ment and submit the report of their The Kampala Declaration com- meeting to the Heads of States dur- piled key recommendations from ing their ordinary summit. Angola, preparatory meetings into 19 recom- Burundi, Central Africa Republic, mendations and directs the Confer- Kenya Tanzania, Sudan and Uganda ence Secretariat to follow up on their were represented by their ministers. implementation with the objective of Other countries were represented by preventing; ending impunity of SGBV high ranking personalities within the and providing support to victims. the 10 great region 2017 In DR Congo, karate helps rape victims rebuild their lives Laurence gives her lessons free of charge. They For the past three years, French- are aimed at boosting both physi- Fischer, a woman Laurence Fischer, a three- cal and mental capacities: “Thanks three-time time world karate champion, has to karate, these women realise that world karate travelled to the war-torn Democratic they have strength. They also acquire champion, Republic of Congo to help female vic- endurance and concentration. They tims of rape. will need strength, endurance and has travelled Alongside the renowned surgeon concentration to meet the challenges to the Dr. Mukwege, the top athlete teaches ahead,” she explains. war-torn these traumatised women self-de- This is certainly the case for San- fence and tries to help them regain dra, who was raped at the age of 16 Democratic self-confidence and rebuild their by a neighbour. She is the most as- Republic of lives. siduous of all the students and would Congo to Once a week, in Bukavu, on the not miss a karate class for anything shores of Lake Kivu, in eastern Demo- in the world. Unable to speak on ar- help female cratic Republic of Congo (DRC), San- rival at the centre, she is now full of victims of dra and a dozen other women swap life and has found the strength to re- rape. their long coloured skirt for a white bound: “When I practise karate, my kimono. On the tatami, they meet up fear evaporates,” the teenager says with their coach, Franck Kwabe. He with a smile. Sandra would have liked is a black belt in karate, and the as- DR Congo cologist and surgeon who rebuilds For one week, Laurence Fischer, to learn how to defend herself earlier, sistant of Laurence Fischer, a former victims of sexual women’s lower abdomens and repairs a three-time world champion who to be able to stand up to her attacker. world champion. Kwabe is a student violence, Kivu, the bayonet wounds on their chests. retired from professional karate in In turn, she has decided to pass on and in his spare time, he teaches self- clinic 2010. In eastern DRC, a region plagued by 2006, takes over the classes. For the karate to the girls in her neighbour- defence to these traumatised women. File photo: www. conflict, rape is used as a weapon of past ten years, the Frenchwoman hood so that they don’t experience The classes take place at the Panzi humanosphere. war and women find themselves on has chosen to help women who are the same ordeal as she did. Foundation, an institution created in org the front line. Every year, thousands victims of violence across the world, 2008 by Dr. Denis Mukwege, a gyne- of them suffer shocking sexual abuse. like in the DRC. The karate champion — Agencies

violence Entertainment and SGBV, no one is innocent hinging on Sexual Gender Based traveled to Burundi for two con- offi Olomide was born Violence, and could be a candidate certs. on 13 August 1956 in for the Regional Training Facility Sunglasses, long black jacket, Kisangani, DRC. His on Prevention and Suppression of tinted beard, the musician ar- mother named him Koffi Sexual and Gender Based Violence. rived in Bujumbura in true sapper because he was born on In 2012 he was convicted of Zairean style. Ka Friday. He grew up in a middle- assaulting his producer, and re- And the welcome is up to the class family, without any musical ceived a three-month suspended mission. The first night, Koffi ap- background. sentence. Four years earlier, in pears in a suit of jeans, side by side During his youth, Olomide impro- 2008 he had been accused of kick- with Gaston Sindimwo, the first vised by singing popular songs with ing a cameraman at a concert in vice president of the republic, relax his own lyrics and altered rhythms Kinshasa, though the matter was mode, T-shirt and pants yellowish. until a neighbor taught him how to resolved out of court. The clichés of the two men show play the guitar. On 22 July 2016, while on a a warm atmosphere, to the point Described by fellow students concert trip to Kenya, Koffi Olo- that some go so far as to talk about and his teachers alike as “a very mide was arrested by Ke- “reunion between Congolese”, bright student,” Olomide got a Koffi Olomide (circled) kicks one of his queen dancers at nya Police after a video in reference to the survey of the scholarship to study in Bordeaux, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport emerged showing weekly Iwacu in Burundi, accord- France, where he obtained a Bache- the musician appar- ing to which “the grandfather of lor’s degree in Business Economics. music project Africando. For his ef- upa, Montana Kamenga, ently kicking one of Gaston Sindimwo, Pierre Sindano, He is also reported to hold a Mas- fort, Effrakata, released in 2001, Ferre Gola. However, his female dancers is a Congolese native of Ijwi island ters degree in Mathematics from Koffi received four awards on a sin- Suzuki 4x4 has recently at Jomo Kenyatta in Bukavu. the University of Paris. gle night at the annual Kora Awards showed up once more in International On July 1st, he makes a second Upon his return to the Congo in in South Africa for 2002 and 2003, some of Quartier Latin Airport, soon af- show. But the next day, a controver- the 1970s, Koffi joined Papa Wem- including the award for Best African shows, along with new re- ter arrival in the sial video burst on social networks. ba’s band, Viva la Musica, initially Artist, which he won in 1998. More cruits like Cindy Le Coeur, a country. His planned We see a dancer happily picking as a composer and songwriter, and recently, he won the Kora Award for female singer with very high concert at The Bomas banknotes, offered by a conquered later as a lead vocalist. In 1986, he “Best African Artist of The Decade”. pitched vocals, recorded here, in of Kenya was cancelled. public, when Koffi Olomide, angry, formed his band known as Quart- This established one of his many the song L’Amour N’existe Pas (Love He was deported on 23 July 2016, seizes her by the hair and pulls her ier Latin International, which cel- aliases, the ‘Quadra Kora Man.’ doesn’t exist). after spending the night in police violently from behind. A scene rem- ebrated its 20th anniversary in Olomide’s album Haut de Gamme: Koffi – who mostly refers to him- custody. iniscent of Nairobi, in July 2016, 2006. Since then, he has performed Koweït, Rive Gauche is listed in 1001 self as “Mopao” – has a new release On Tuesday 26 July 2016, Koffi when the star had kicked down and recorded both with the group Albums You Must Hear Before You known as La Chicotte a Papa, having was arrested at his home in Kin- another of her dancers in front of and by himself. Die. In March 2003 Olomide released recently excelled in hits like Lovemy- shasa, on the orders of the DRC the cameras of the journalists, a Over the years, he built up a “Affaire D’Etat”, a double CD album cine, Diabolos, Grand Pretre Mere Attorney-General. After a speedy move that would cost the artist the faithful fan base internationally, featuring 18 tracks. and Soupou, Cle Boa, among others. trial, the singer was convicted and cancellation of all his concerts and particularly in Africa and Europe. Olomide was part of the Papa Koffi’s talent could be compared to sentenced to one and half years in leave human rights defenders and Koffi popularized the slower style Wemba musical, in the early 1980s. the once king of African rhumba, Lu- prison for kicking his dancer, one SGBV experts wondering if Olo- of Soukous, which he dubbed Tcha He has trained many young musi- ambo Makiadi, who also saw many Pamela Eyenga Bengongo. After mide cannot be brought to RTF for Tcho. His music can be quite con- cians, some of whom have since left artists pass through his expert hands the intervention of the authorities, counseling - because his music opu- troversial, taking on current events his Quartier Latin band and gone solo. during his days. Today, he is one of the sentence was commuted to lence does not rhyme with violence and topics considered taboo in Some of those who have left are Fele Africa’s most popular musicians. three months, without the option against women. some conservative societies. Mudogo, Sam Tshintu, Suzuki 4x4, Despite this illustrious career, Olo- of a fine. He also participated in the salsa Soleil Wanga, Bouro Mpela, Fally Ip- mide has had a brush in with the law Earlier on this year, Olomide — Agencies the great 11 2017 region

October 2014 to June 2018 for eral on Sexual Violence in Conflict training of judicial and police offi- (UN OSRSG-SVC) is one other or- cers. The money is part of the USD ganization that has contributed Development 3million support to ICGLR which over USD110,000 for forensic train- will cover training of judicial offi- ing for police officers and training cers and police officials from the workshop on addressing sexual growth 12 Member States. violence within the military justice path The money will cover devel- system in the Great Lakes Region. partners who opment of implementation strat- The British High Commission egy for training, development of has contributed USD23,000 for The vision of training curricula, developement training workshop for the Ugandan the Member of webpage, e-learning portal, military in protection of women have assisted RTF web-hosting for selected modules and children during conflict situa- States, the laws, protocols and good practices tions, sensitization workshop and leadership of among others. Some of the proj- training workshop on documen- the RTF, the ects are on-going. tation and investigation of sexual t is difficult to discuss Byamukama was appointed in the centre for January 2014-Oc- The Netherlands Initiative for violence cases in conflict and pub- commitment, the success of Regional 2014, the brief was that he tober 2017. Capacity Development in Higher lishing of RTF reports. resilience and Training Facility (RTF) should mobilise the necessary “The vision of the Mem- Education (NICHE) contributed African Union Commission apt financial without highlighting the resources for the centre and ber States, the leadership of EURO 1,100,000 for institutional Department for Peace and Secu- pivotal role played by the ensure its effective operation- the RTF, the commitment, and academic capacity building rity contribued USD50,000, the management cooperationI and development alisation. resilience and apt financial for the RTF but continent on IC- UN Office of the Special Envoy of the human partners towards meeting its Mr Byamukama since then management of the human re- GLR commitment to support its of the Secretary-General for the resource mandate. hit the road even if the funding source managing the RTF keeps own staff. Great Lakes Region contributed managing the The pact states that the op- from the secretariat was not attracting new partners within UN Women is the other organi- USD60,000, the Population Coun- erating budget of the ICGLR forthcoming; the centre has in and out of the region,” the re- zation that has contributed USD80, cil of Kenya, GIZ Maastricht School RTF keeps Secretariat where RTF is part, the last three years run with fi- port adds. 000 for the office opening and of Management, FIDA Uganda, attracting shall be financed by the man- nancial support from coopera- The contributions received furniture, brainstorming meeting ICGLR were other organisations new partners datory annual contributions of tion and donors. have helped in fostering further with RECs, UN, World Bank, civil that contributed funds towards the Member States and by re- “During the time that the partnerships, acquiring a per- society organizations on baseline RTF programmes and activities within and out sources mobilized from devel- RTF had not opened a bank ac- manent home for RTF, keeping mapping of regional training ac- for the betterment of women and of the region opment and cooperation part- count, the partners either chan- internships running, running tivities and institutions on SGBV the children in the Great Lakes Re- ners in addition to resources neled funds for the RTF through the training programmes as where the organization handled gion, without which these vulner- identified by the Secretariat in the headquarters (Conference well as mobilizing resources. directly the payment with the ven- able people would have been left Bujumbura, Burundi. secretariat in Bujumbura) or Currently, the World Bank dors and suppliers. at the mercy of the benefactors of Indeed, when the current they paid the vendors directly,” has contributed USD1,040,000 The UN office of the Special the conflict situation, with often Acting Director RTF, Mr Nathan observes the status report on for a four year project starting Representative of Secretary Gen- adverse effects.

The contributions received from organizations like The Netherlands Initiative for Capacity development in Higher Education (NICHE) have helped in fostering further partnerships the 12 great region 2017

common terms

The meaning of sexual and gender-based violence

s we interest ourselves women”, “gender-based violence” based violence and includes sexual by the UNHCR and implementing 3. Physical, sexual and psychologi- with the subject of Sex- is used interchangeably. violence. partners, Article 2 of the UN General cal violence perpetrated or condoned ual and Gender based This does not mean that all acts The Declaration states in its in- Assembly Declaration on the Elimi- by the State, wherever it occurs.” violence, we will en- against a woman are gender-based troduction that “[Violence against nation of Violence Against Women counter common terms. violence, or that all victims of gen- women] is a manifestation of his- (1993): Sex HereA we provide an understanding der-based violence are female. The torically unequal power relations “Violence against women shall be Sex is defined as “biological char- and definitions to common ones. surrounding circumstances where between men and women, which understood to encompass, but not be acteristics of males and females. The Gender-based violence men are victim of sexual violence have led to domination over and dis- limited to, the following: characteristics are congenital and The term “gender-based vio- could be a man being harassed, crimination against women by men their differences are limited to physi- lence” refers to violence that targets beaten or killed because they do and to the prevention of the full ad- 1. Physical, sexual and psychologi- ological reproductive functions”. individuals or groups on the basis not conform to view of masculinity, vancement of women, and that vio- cal violence occurring in the family, of their gender. The United Nations’ which are accepted by the society. lence against women is one of the including battering, sexual abuse of Gender Office of the High Commissioner crucial social mechanisms by which female children in the household, Gender is the term used to denote for Human Rights’ Committee on Violence against women women are forced into a subordi- dowry-related violence, marital the social characteristics assigned to the Elimination of Discrimination Violence against women is de- nate position compared with men”. rape, female genital mutilation and men and women. These social char- against Women (CEDAW) defines it fined by the UN Declaration on the other traditional practices harmful acteristics are constructed on the ba- as “violence that is directed against Elimination of Violence against Sexual Violence to women, non-spousal violence and sis of different factors, such as age, a woman because she is a woman or Women, adopted by the General Sexual violence includes sexual violence related to exploitation; religion, national, ethnic and social that affects women disproportion- Assembly on 20 December 1993, as exploitation and sexual abuse. It re- origin. They differ both within and ately”, in its General Recommenda- “any act of gender-based violence fers to any act, attempt, or threat 2. Physical, sexual and psycho- between cultures and define identi- tion 19. that results in, or is likely to result of a sexual nature that result, or is logical violence occurring within the ties, status, roles, responsibilities and This includes acts that inflict in, physical, sexual or psychological likely to result in, physical, psycho- general community, including rape, power relations among the members physical, mental or sexual harm or harm or suffering to women, includ- logical and emotional harm. Sexual sexual abuse, sexual harassment and of any culture or society. suffering, the threat of such acts, ing threats of such acts, coercion violence is a form of gender-based intimidation at work, in educational Gender is learned through sociali- coercion and other deprivations or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, violence. institutions and elsewhere, traffick- sation. It is not static or innate, but of liberty. Together with “sexual whether occurring in public or in Expanded Definition of Sexual ing in women and forced prostitution; evolves to respond to changes in the violence” and “violence against private life”. It is a form of gender- and Gender-based Violence used social, political and cultural environ- the great 13 2017 region

ment. People are born female or Perpetrator ily), or to preserve the honour of male (sex); they learn how to be A perpetrator is a person, group, the family (i.e. as a redemption for girls and boys, and then become or institution that directly inflicts, an offence committed by a male women and men (gender). Gender supports and condones violence or member of the family). refers to what it means to be a boy other abuse against a person or a Sexual Violence or a girl, woman or man, in a par- group of persons. Perpetrators are Sexual violence includes sexual exploitation and sexual 5. Infanticide and/or neglect ticular society or culture. Society in a position of real or perceived abuse. It refers to any act, attempt, or threat of a sexual Killing, withholding food from, teaches expected attitudes, behav- power, decision-making and/or au- and/or neglecting female children iours, roles, responsibilities, con- thority and can thus exert control nature that result, or is likely to result in, physical, because they are considered to be straints, opportunities and privi- over their victims. psychological and emotional harm. Sexual violence is a of less value in a society than male leges of men and women in any Types of Sexual and Gender-based form of gender-based violence. children. context. This is learned behaviour Violence known as gender identity. There are 5 types of Sexual and 6. Denial of education for girls or Violence Gender-based violence; Sexual Vio- women Violence is a means of control lence, Physical Violence, Emotional Crimes against humanity of family, restricting movements, Removing girls from school, and oppression that can include and Psychological Violence, Harm- a sexual nature, including rape, deprivation of liberty or obstruc- prohibiting or obstructing access emotional social or economic ful Traditional Practices and Socio- sexual slavery, forced abortion or tion/restriction of the right to free of girls and women to basic, tech- force, coercion or pressure, as well Economic Violence. sterilisation or any other forms to movement. nical, professional or scientific as physical harm. It can be overt, Sexual Violence prevent birth, forced pregnancy, knowledge. in the form of physical assault 1. Rape and marital rape forced delivery, and forced child Harmful Traditional Practices Socio-Economic Violence or threatening someone with a 2. The invasion of any part of the rearing, among others. Sexual vio- 1. Female genital mutilation (FGM) 1. Discrimination and/or denial of weapon; it can also be covert, in the body of the victim or of the perpe- lence as a form of torture is a de- Cutting of genital organs for opportunities, services form of intimidation, threats, per- trator with a sexual organ, or of fined as any act or threat of a sexual non-medical reasons, usually done Exclusion, denial of access to secution deception or other forms the anal or genital opening of the nature by which severe mental or at a young age; ranges from partial education, health assistance or re- of psychological or social pressure. victim with any object or any other physical pain or suffering is caused or total cutting, removal of genitals munerated employment; denial of The person targeted by this kind of part of the body by force, coercion, to obtain information, confession stitching whether for cultural or property rights. violence is compelled to behave as taking advantage of a coercive en- of punishment from the victim or non-therapeutic reasons; often un- 2. Social exclusion/ostracism based expected or to act against her will vironment, or against a person in- third person, intimidate her or a dergone several times during life- on sexual orientation out of fear. capable of giving genuine consent third person or to destroy, in whole time, i.e., after delivery or if a girl/ Denial of access to services or An incident of violence is an (International Criminal Court). or in part, a national, ethnic, racial woman has been victim of sexual social benefits, prevention of the act or a series of harmful acts by 3. Child sexual abuse, defilement and or religious group. assault. exercise and enjoyment of civil, so- a perpetrator or a group of perpe- incest Physical Violence cial, economic, cultural and politi- trators against a person or a group Any act where a child is used for 1. Physical Assault 2. Early marriage cal rights, imposition of criminal of individuals. It may involve mul- sexual gratification. Any sexual re- Beating, punching, kicking, bit- Arranged marriage under the penalties, discriminatory practises tiple types of and repeated acts of lations/interaction with a child. ing, burning, maiming or killing, age of legal consent (sexual inter- or physical and psychological harm violence over a period of time, with 4. Forced sodomy/anal rape with or without weapons; often in course in such relationships consti- and tolerance of discriminatory variable durations. It can take min- Forced/coerced anal inter- combinations with other forms of tutes statutory rape, as the girls are practices, public or private hostil- utes, hours, days, or a lifetime. course, usually male-to-male or sexual and gender-based violence. not legally competent to agree to ity to homosexuals, transsexuals or Abuse male-to-female. such unions). transvestites. Abuse is the misuse of power 5. Attempted rape or attempted 2. Trafficking, slavery 3. Obstructive legislative practice through which the perpetrator forced sodomy/anal rape Selling and/or trading in human 3. Forced marriage Prevention of the exercise and gains control or advantage of the Attempted forced/coerced inter- beings for forced sexual activities, Arranged marriage against the enjoyment of civil, social, eco- abused, using and causing physical course; no penetration. forced labour or services, slavery victim’s/survivor’s wishes, which is nomic, cultural and political rights or psychological harm or inflicting or practices similar to slaver, ser- exposed to violent and/or abusive by women. or inciting fear of that harm. Abuse 6. Sexual abuse vitude or removal of organs. consequences if he/she refuses to prevents persons from making free Actual or threatened physical Emotional and Psychological comply. Sources : decisions and forces them to be- intrusion of a sexual nature, in- Violence • “Sexual and Gender-Based have against their will. cluding inappropriate touching, by 1. Abuse/Humiliation 4. Honour killing and maiming Violence against Refugees, Coercion force or under unequal or coercive Non-sexual verbal abuse that Maiming or murdering a woman Returnees and Internally Displaced Coercion is forcing, or attempt- conditions. is insulting, degrading, demean- or a girl as a punishment for acts Persons” UNHCR, May 2003 ing to force, another person to en- 7. Sexual exploitation ing; compelling the victim/survi- considered inappropriate with • “Its in our hands Stop the Violence gage in behaviors against her will Any abuse of a position of vul- vor to engage in humiliating acts, regards to her gender, and which Against Women” by using threats, verbal insistence, nerability, differential power, or whether in public or private; deny- are believed to bring shame on the Amnesty International publication, manipulation, deception, cultural trust for sexual purposes; this in- ing basic expenses for family sur- family or community (e.g. pouring 2004 expectations or economic power. cludes profiting momentarily, so- vival. acid on a young woman’s face as • ICGLR Protocol on Prevention Power cially or politically from the sexual punishment for bringing shame to and Suppression of Sexual Violence Power is understood as the ca- exploitation of another; Sexual 2. Confinement the family for attempting to marry Against Women and Children in the pacity to make decisions. All rela- exploitation is one of the purposes Isolating a person from friends/ someone not chosen by the fam- Great Lakes Region (2006) tionships are affected by the exer- of trafficking in persons (perform- cise of power. When power is used ing in a sexual manner, forced to make decision regarding one’s undressing and/or nakedness, co- own life, it becomes an affirmation erced marriage, forced childbear- of self acceptance and self-respect ing, engagement in pornography that, in turn, fosters respect and ac- or prostitution, sexual extortion ceptance of others as equals. When for the granting of goods, services, used to dominate, power imposes assistance benefits, sexual slavery). obligations on, restricts, prohibits 8. Forced prostitution (also referred and makes decisions about the lives to as sexual exploitation) of others. Forced/coerced sex trade in Consent exchange for material resources, A person consents when he services and assistance, usually tar- or she makes an informed choice geting highly vulnerable women or to agree freely and voluntarily to girls unable to meet basic human do something. There is no con- needs for themselves and/or their sent when agreement is obtained children. through the use of threats, force or 9. Sexual harassment other forms of coercion, abduction, Any unwelcome, usually re- fraud, deception, or misrepresenta- peated and unreciprocated sexual tion. advance, unsolicited sexual atten- Threatening to withhold, or tion, demand for sexual access or promising to provide a benefit in favours, sexual innuendo or other order to obtain the agreement of verbal or physical conduct of a a person constitutes an abuse of sexual nature, display or porno- power. Any agreement obtained in graphic material, when it interferes such a way, or from a person who with work, is made a condition of is below the legal (statutory) age employment or creates an intimi- of consent, or is defined as a child dating, hostile or offensive work under applicable laws, is not con- environment. sidered to be consensual. 10. Sexual violence as a weapon of war and torture Girls promote the ‘18+ Ending Child Marriages in Southern Africa’ campaign. Photo: www.plan-international.org the 14 great region 2017

statement

EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT SECRÉTARIAT EXÉCUTIF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CONFÉRENCE INTERNATIONALE ON THE GREAT LAKES REGION SUR LA RÉGION DES GRANDS LACS National coordinations meeting preparing the icglr summit and special session on sexual gender based violence (sgbv) Statement by Ambassador Liberata Mulamula EXECUTIVE SECRETARY ICGLR Munyonyo Resort Hotel, 11th December 2011, Kampala, UGANDA

Honourable Syda Bbumba, Minis- mutual benefit. It may be recalled ter of Gender, Labour and Social that in 2009 in Bujumbura, Burundi, Development of the Republic of the Graduate Institute of Interna- Uganda and our Guest of Honour; tional and Development Studies with the support from the Swiss Devel- Ambassador James Mugume, Per- opment Cooperation conducted the manent Secretary of the Ministry first training to 25 young diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign of the from the ICGLR Member States. I am Republic of Uganda, National Co- glad to report that under the new ordinator and our Senior Officials three-year joint project, the Insti- from the Government of the Re- tute will organize similar trainings. I public of Uganda here present ; would like to thank all our partners in making the meetings of the Summit Amb. General Solomon Mumbi, Na- possible. Specifically, I pay tribute to tional Coordinator of the Republic UNWOMEN, Norway, Sweden, Swiss of Zambia and Chair of the National Development Cooperation and USA Coordinators meeting; Government for their valuable finan- Distinguished National Coordina- cial contribution. tors; Finally, Honourable Guest of Hon- Excellencies Members of the Dip- our, let me say that while I will have lomatic Corps, Chairpersons of the an occasion to bid farewell to all of Regional Civil Society Forum, the you at the Summit before my term in Youth here present; Office come to an end in a few days to Members of the Regional Women come, allow me to use this opportu- Forum and Steering Committees nity to thank the Government of the on Regional Initiatives; Republic of Uganda and especially Dear Partners and Friends; the leadership of this great country Dear Colleagues Invited Guests; cilities and usual warm hospitality nia from 1- 4th November 2011 at the Honourable Guest of Honour; and the National Coordination mech- Dear Colleagues; extended to us since our arrival in High Level Consultation meeting on Distinguished National anism under the able leadership of Invited Guests; this beautiful and green city of Kam- Sexual and Gender Based Violence Coordinators; Amb. James Mugume for taking me Ladies and Gentlemen; pala. (SGBV). Dear Partners and Friends; as a daughter of the land and for the I wish in a special way to recog- The Ministers of Gender consid- unwavering support to the work of n behalf of the Secretariat of nize the tireless efforts made by the ered and adopted the report of ex- During this meeting, I will have the Secretariat since its establish- the International Conference Gender Ministry and Foreign Affairs perts and made recommendations to an occasion to present my summary ment that has enabled us to gather Oon the Great Lakes Region and teams in close collaboration with the the Summit. We heartily thank, Hon- report on the work of the ICGLR in here today. I leave office with great on my own behalf, I wish to welcome ICGLR Secretariat in organizing the ourable Rukia Nakadama, Minister of the last 5 years I have been in office, memories of this wonderful country you all to Kampala, and to this meet- hosting of this year’s Great Lakes Re- State for Gender (of the Republic of outlining the achievements, the chal- and peoples. ing of the National coordinators, gion Summit in Kampala and ensur- Uganda) who chaired the Ministers lenges and the way forward before I To the National Coordinators, you which kick starts preparations for ing its success. meeting and whose guidance and present it to the Regional Inter-Min- have been my strength and inspi- the 4th ICGLR Summit and special In the same vein, I wish to thank leadership enabled the meeting to isterial Committee Meeting (RIMC) ration. I thank you for making me session on SGBV. our distinguished National Coordi- be successfully concluded. on 13th December 2011. The meet- what I am today, for allowing me to I would like also to express our soli- nators for their continued hard work I should also extend our gratitude ing will also receive the Secretariat serve you and the membership with darity with the peoples of the Demo- and commitment to their task in lay- to our distinguished National Coor- financial report and Audit report for gratifying sense of accomplishment, cratic Republic of Congo in this post- ing ground for a successful Summit. dinators who fully participated in the year 2009 – 2010 and consider however modest. To my Staff we will electoral period and call for calm to The agenda before the meeting is a the meeting and whose contributions the Secretariat annual budget and have our own occasion to start beg- allow the democratic electoral fruits clear testimony of the work ahead were significant. In this context the status of Member States contribu- ging bye bye. It is not how much we to reach its peoples. for the National Coordinators in the National Coordinators recognize tions. I do not therefore wish to take have accomplished but how far we We are happy once again to be in next two days in preparing the Inter- that a lot has been done but that a much of your time in indulging in the have come! I will forever cherish our Kampala for ICGLR meetings, which Ministerial meeting preceding the lot more remains to be done in con- details at this stage. moments together in our collective the Government of the Republic of Summit. I extend my best wishes for cretizing the Ministers recommenda- In conclusion, I wish to draw the struggle for peace and stability in Uganda has over time graciously fruitful deliberations. tions in to Summit resolutions. This National Coordinators attention that the region. As I watch the TV screens hosted. For most of us, it is a home- Honourable Guest of Honour; meeting therefore offers an oppor- the meeting will be briefed on the on with great trepidation on the post coming. Invited Guests; tunity to consider the specific draft a new joint project between ICGLR elections situation in DRC, I can only We sincerely thank you, Honour- Ladies and Gentlemen; outcomes of the Special Session of and the Graduate Institute of Inter- say the struggle continues!-A luta able Minister of Gender, Labour and the Summit on SGBV with focus on national and Development Studies continua! I have confidence we shall Social Development of the Republic We are meeting few weeks af- “Prevention, End of Impunity, and (IHEID) on the training of the young overcome! of Uganda for gracing this occasion in ter Arusha following the succesful support to Victims of Sexual Gen- diplomats from the ICGLR Member person despite your very busy sched- Regional Experts and Ministers of der Based Violence”, as an over- States. I encourage you all to attend Mwebare. ule leading to the Summit. We thank Gender from ICGLR Member States arching theme. this briefing at the end of your de- I thank you for your kind the Government for the excellent fa- and partners met in Arusha, Tanza- liberations tomorrow afternoon for attention. the great 15 2017 region

Interview: Executive Secretary Zachary Muburi-Muita discusses various interventions to fight SGBV Make coming years, years of action

The Great Lakes Region is grappling with the protocol. Members are measur- ing their performance against the the problem of Sexual and Gender Based commitments in these instruments. Violence (SGBV). This has been a concern of In fact some countries have action the Great Lakes Region since its inception plans about these instruments. We keep monitoring and evaluating and in the 1990s. The ICGLR was established reporting to the responsible organs in 2004. In an interview, the Executive of the ICGLR such as the RIMC and Secretary of the ICGLR Ambassador Zachary Summit for future guidance and sup- Muburi-Muita (pictured) discusses how the port as the case might be. What are the major challenges that ICGLR acknowledged the problem of SGBV the ICGLR faces in its efforts to end and made various interventions to fight it. He impunity for SGBV? discusses the achievements and challenges Conflicts that keep cropping up in Member States make the struggle dif- of this struggle, as well as the strategies ficult. In conflict, the state is neither in place to ensure that access to justice is fully operational nor effective. The enhanced and impunity eradicated. organs of the state, such as the police, courts and the general law and order, all break down. Yet that is when sex- How prevalent is sexual and gender ual violence is rampant and impunity based violence in the Great Lakes reigns. We also still have challenges Region? of culture and corruption that makes It is worse in conflict settings but it difficult to access justice. In some it is also common in peace times, cases, there are no enabling laws to in our homes, in our institutions, in fight sexual violence. our communities, in our schools and How do you ensure that best practices at times in our places of worship. It are identified, shared and replicated? negatively impacts on our economic, Executive which are required to respect, protect put in place the Kampala Declaration We allow the exchange of expe- social, cultural, political and security Secretary of and fulfill provision under those in- to fight sexual violence. With all this riences of professionals through conditions as a people. We must col- the ICGLR struments. They either domesticate commitment, it is the easiest thing convening meetings in different lectively fight it. There are always Ambassador the Pact and the protocols or imple- to rally the region against the cause. countries. We also use the national new statistics and usually alarmingly Zachary ment it as it is (depending on legal They are determined to see zero tol- structures to share reports and then high in each country showing both Muburi-Muit system of the Member states). Many erance on sexual violence. The only monitor and ensure that they report reduction and increment depending countries now have a law to fight sex- challenging situation is having some on progress every six months in on particularities of each. ual violence. They cooperate to fight of our member states in conflict, RIMC and the Summit The situation is always increas- sexual violence through the Protocol which inhibits their own capacity and What are you planning to do to ingly changing for the better as coun- of judicial cooperation. commitment to fighting all forms of consolidate these successes and tries get determined to eradicate it. You might have heard that sus- violence. address the challenges? When the circumstances change into pected criminals have been extra- How is the ICGLR addressing the We intend to vigorously support war however, the situation deterio- act now dited from one country to another to disparity in progress made by each the existing structures namely the rates for women and children espe- face serious crimes including sexual member state in improving access to RTF, the Regional Women Forum and cially as they become easy targets of Let us stop violence. We have a National Coordi- justice and ending impunity for SGBV? the Department of gender, women sexual violence. the shame nator in each member state through We know that ICGLR Member and children which are working on Briefly explain how the 12 member that this whom we work with their respec- States are not homogeneous. The different aspects of sexual violence. states in the region came together to heinous tive countries. We have Regional different stages of development at In particular the RTF will be sup- address SGBV as a major concern of the inter-ministerial committees (RIMC) which they are, present opportuni- ported to train and sensitise the ma- ICGLR. crime is where Foreign Ministers of the 12 ties for us. We use this to learn from jor stakeholders in the prevention The problem of sexual violence has putting on countries meet to share their prog- the best practices so that we aspire and punishment of sexual violence been around since time immemorial our Member ress and challenges in implementing to achieve them and inspire many to- as well as supporting the survivors. subsequent wars in the DRC in late the Pact on security, Stability and wards the direction of best practices. We will also keep coordinating, col- 1990s where it was clear that rape States both Development and above all we have We also learn from the challenges laborating and encouraging national was used as a weapon of war. When in conflict a Summit which can even impose from our different member states in structures in all the 12 Member States the leaders of the Great Lakes Re- and in sanctions over failure to implement order to avoid them. We share both to implement the ICGLR Instruments gion met in Dar-es-Salaam in 2004, the Pact and protocols, when the ex- knowledge and challenges so that we on sexual violence. We will encourage they identified sexual violence as one peace. Let planation is not satisfactory to them. can all move together knowing that our Member States and partners to source of insecurity and that its erad- us stop it in The Secretariat is only a technical there are standards below which we push this agenda forward. ication would contribute to peace, our homes, and coordinating arm of the ICGLR. should not be. In the case of SGBV, How much more should the Member stability and development. schools and We have the convening power in all we are developing training manuals States do to support the coordination The leaders working together with this. and curriculum under the RTF that structure and mechanisms in place for many stakeholders including the AU, work places. How easy is it to coordinate these will provide minimum standards be- ending impunity? UN, civil society, religious leaders If we put regional efforts on SGBV? Share your low which we should never be. It is They should keep the political will endorsed the Pact on Security, Sta- what we experience on the adequacy of the a struggle in which we all have to be alive and also provide the funding bility and Development which com- coordination arrangements, the major engaged. necessary for the structures to keep mitted them to prevent and punish have agreed challenges and what can be done to What major successes have been running as per the already agreed all forms of sexual violence. They also in practice enhance the regional coordination achieved in implementing the Proto- resolutions, declarations and proto- endorsed a specific Protocol, the first we shall efforts col on the Prevention and cols of the ICGLR. of its kind, to fight sexual violence: It is easy because there is the nec- Suppression of Sexual Violence against Your last word? The Protocol on Prevention and eradicate essary political will to fight sexual Women and Children? Let us stop the shame that this Suppression of Sexual Violence sexual violence. The Member States gave us The Protocol is a short instru- heinous crime is putting on our against Women and Children. On this violence. Let the convening power to coordinate ment with about 7 articles only but it Member States both in conflict and they added the Goma Declaration on us make the them. They respond when we call is a solid weapon to fight sexual vio- in peace. Let us stop it in our homes, Sexual Violence in 2008 and the Kam- on them. You should not forget that lence. Most countries have legislated schools and work places. If we put pala Declaration on Sexual Violence next years, in 2004 sexual violence was identi- against sexual violence; we now have what we have agreed in practice we in 2011. It is now time to implement years of fied as one core area to address if the Regional Training Facility, gov- shall eradicate sexual violence. Let us the commitments. action. the region was to have sustainable ernments and civil society have used make the next years, years of action. The ICGLR has a progressive legal peace and development. The Mem- the Protocol to sensitise and train Let us support the RTF and the ICGLR framework to enhance access to justice ber States committed to prevent and different stakeholders against sexual mechanisms in general to fight sex- for SGBV and fight impunity. What are the punish the crime of sexual violence violence. ual violence. If we put what we have mechanisms for enforcement of this legal in 2006; they also put in place a bind- We have also further elaborated agreed in practice we shall eradicate framework? ing instrument, the first of its kind, the protocol by putting in place sexual violence. Let us support the Implementation or enforcement on prevention and suppression of more enabling instruments such as RTF and the ICGLR mechanisms in of the obligations under the ICGLR le- sexual violence against women and the Goma declaration and Kampala general to fight sexual violence. gal instruments is by member states children. In 2011 they went ahead and declaration to better implement the 16 great Kampala Declaration by heads of state from Icglr region 2017

The contributions received have helped in fostering further partnerships, acquiring a permanent home for RTF, among other milestones.

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04 06 the 18 great Déclaration des Chefs d’Etat et de Gouvernement des États Membres region 2017

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Réaffirmant notre décision prise à Dar-es-Salaam de déclarer la Région des Grands Lacs Zone spécifique de reconstruction et de développement et déterminés à relever ensemble le défi de la reconstruction et du développement

avec la pleine participation de tous nos peuples, notamment en partenariat avec

les organisations de la société civile, les jeunes, les femmes, le secteur privé et

les organisations religieuses, ainsi qu’en coopération étroite avec les

organisations régionales compétentes à savoir l’Union africaine, les Nations

unies et la communauté internationale en général ; Conférence

internationale Résolus à adopter et à mettre en œuvre de manière collective les Programmes d’action, Protocoles et mécanismes propres à traduire dans les sur la Région des Grands faits les options politiques prioritaires et les principes directeurs de la Déclaration de Dar-es-Salaam Lacs

Convenons Solennellement De Ce Qui Suit:

Pacte sur la sécurité, la stabilité et le développement dans la Région des Grands Lacs

14 au 15 décembre 2006 Modifiée 2012 1

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Préambule Chapitre I. Dispositions Générales

Nous, Chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement des Etats membres de la Conférence Ar ticle 1 internationale sur la Région des Grands Lacs; Définitions

Conscients de la nécessité de respecter la démocratie et la bonne gouvernance

ainsi que les principes fondamentaux consacrés par la Charte des Nations Aux fins du présent Pacte, à moins que le contexte n’en décide autrement, on entend unies et par l’Acte constitutif de l’Union africaine, notamment l’intégrité par : territoriale, la souveraineté nationale, la non-ingérence et la non-agression, a) Conférence: La Conférence internationale sur la Région des Grands Lacs ; l’interdiction pour tout Etat membre de permettre l’utilisation de son territoire comme

base pour l’agression ou la subversion contre un autre Etat membre ; b) Région des Grands Lacs: La Région composée de l‘ensemble des territoires des

douze Etats membres du champ de la Conférence ; Conscients de la nécessité d’une volonté politique effective et soutenue de rechercher

conjointement des solutions pacifiques à nos différends et, plus particulièrement c) Déclaration de Dar-es-Salaam: La Déclaration sur la paix, la sécurité, la démocratie d’honorer nos engagements dans un esprit de confiance mutuelle; et le développement dans la Région des Grands Lacs, adoptée lors du premier Sommet de la Conférence à Dar-es-Salaam (République-unie de Tanzanie) le 20 Réaffirmant notre détermination individuelle et collective de fonder les relations entre novembre 2004 ; nos Etats sur les instruments juridiques internationaux, les principes fondamentaux

universels, les options politiques prioritaires et les principes directeurs contenus dans d) Etats membres: Les onze Etats membres du champ de la Conférence internationale la Déclaration de Dar-es-Salaam et de transformer la Région des Grands lacs, dans sur la paix, la sécurité, la démocratie et le développement dans la Région des le cadre de notre destin commun, en un espace de paix et de sécurité durables, Grands Lacs à savoir : la République d’Angola, la République du Burundi, la de stabilité politique et sociale, de croissance économique et de développement République Centrafricaine, la République du Congo, la République démocratique partagés, par une coopération et une intégration multisectorielles au seul profit de du Congo, la République du Kenya, la République de l’Ouganda, la République nos peuples; du Rwanda, la République du Sud Soudan, la République du Soudan, la République unie de Tanzanie, la République de Zambie ; Déterminés à assurer le respect strict des normes et principes fondamentaux du droit

international humanitaire, notamment ceux afférents à la protection et à l’assistance e) Mécanismes nationaux de Coordination : mécanisme national de coordination devant être apportées aux femmes, aux enfants, aux réfugiés et aux personnes facilitant la mise en œuvre du présent Pacte dans un Etat membre ; déplacées, dont les violations ont gravement affecté les populations concernées ; 02 3 04 5

a) donner un cadre juridique aux relations entre les Etats membres auquel le présent

Pacte s’applique, comme prévu à l’article 4 ;

b) mettre en œuvre la Déclaration de Dar-es-Salaam, les Protocoles, les Programmes d’action, le Mécanisme régional de suivi, le Fonds spécial pour la reconstruction et le développement adoptés à l’article 3 du présent Pacte ;

c) créer les conditions de sécurité, de stabilité et de développement durables entre les Etats membres.

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Contenu

1. La Déclaration de Dar-es-Salaam, les Protocoles, les Progtherammes d’action, le

Mécanisme régional de suivi et le Fonds font partie intégrante greatdu présent Pacte ;

21 2017 region 2. Toute référence au Pacte s’applique à toutes ses composantes.

Sommet: L’organe f) composé des Chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement des Etats Ar ticle 4 membres; Champ d’application et principes fondamentaux

g) Comité interministériel régional: L’organe composé des Ministres des Etats 1. Le présent Pacte régit les relations juridiques entre les Etats l’ayant ratifié dans membres en charge de la Conférence ; le cadre et les limites des domaines prioritaires choisis en matière de paix

et de sécurité, de démocratie et de bonne gouvernance, de développement h) Secrétariat de la Conférence: Le Secrétariat de la Conférence internationale sur économique et d’intégration régionale ainsi que de questions humanitaires, la Région des Grands Lacs ; sociales et environnementales:

i) Pacte: Le Pacte sur la sécurité, la stabilité et le développement dans la Région des 2. Les Etats membres s’engagent à fonder leurs relations sur le respect des principes Grands Lacs ; de souveraineté nationale, d’intégrité territoriale, de non-ingérence dans les

affaires intérieures des autres Etats membres, de non-agression, de coopération j) Protocoles: Les Protocoles adoptés sous ce Pacte ainsi que ceux dont l’adoption 8 et de règlement pacifique des différends interviendrait ultérieurement;

k) Programmes d’action: Les Programmes d’action adoptés sous ce Pacte;

l) Projets: Les projets adoptés sous ce Pacte ainsi que ceux dont l’adoption interviendrait ultérieurement;

m) Mécanisme de suivi: Le mécanisme institutionnel régional de suivi adopté dans le cadre de ce Pacte;

n) Fonds: Le Fonds spécial pour la reconstruction et le développement prévu par le

Pacte ;

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Objectifs

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Protocole sur la non-agression et la défense mutuelle dans la Région des Grands Le présent Pacte a pour objectifs de : Lacs

Les Etats membres s’engagent à maintenir la paix et la sécurité, conformément a) donner un cadre juridique aux relations entre les Etats membres auquel le présent au Protocole sur la non-agression et la défense mutuelle dans la Région des Pacte s’applique, comme prévu à l’article 4 ; 9 Grands Lacs et, en particulier:

b) mettre en œuvre la Déclaration de Dar-es-Salaam, les Protocoles, les Programmes (a) à renoncer à recourir à la menace ou à l’utilisation de la force comme d’action, le Mécanisme régional de suivi, le Fonds spécial pour la reconstruction politique ou instrument visant à régler les différends ou litiges ou à atteindre les et le développement adoptés à l’article 3 du présent Pacte ; objectifs nationaux dans la Région des Grands Lacs ; c) créer les conditions de sécurité, de stabilité et de développement durables entre (b) à s’abstenir d’envoyer ou de soutenir des oppositions armées ou des les Etats membres. groupes armés ou rebelles sur le territoire d’un autre Etat Membre ou de tolérer

Ar ticle 3 sur leur territoire des groupes armés ou rebelles engagés dans des conflits armés ou impliqués dans des actes de violence ou de subversion contre le Contenu

gouvernement d’un autre Etat ; 1. La Déclaration de Dar-es-Salaam, les Protocoles, les Programmes d’action, le

Mécanisme régional de suivi et le Fonds font partie intégrante du présent Pacte ; (c) à coopérer à tous les niveaux en vue du désarmement et du

démantèlement des groupes rebelles armés existants et à promouvoir une gestion 2. Toute référence au Pacte s’applique à toutes ses composantes. participative conjointe de la sécurité étatique et humaine aux frontières

communes. Ar ticle 4

Champ d’application et principes fondamentaux d) si un Etat membre ne se conforme pas aux dispositions du présent Article, un

Sommet extraordinaire sera convoqué en vue d’examiner les mesures appropriées à 1. Le présent Pacte régit les relations juridiques entre les Etats l’ayant ratifié dans prendre le cadre et les limites des domaines prioritaires choisis en matière de paix

et de sécurité, de démocratie et de06 bonne gouvernance, de développement 7 08 10

économique et d’intégration régionale ainsi que de questions humanitaires, sociales et environnementales:

2. Les Etats membres s’engagent à fonder leurs relations sur le respect des principes de souveraineté nationale, d’intégrité territoriale, de non-ingérence dans les

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Ar ticle 6 (b) de mettre fin par des voies judiciaires nationales et internationales, à l’impunité dont jouissent les personnes physiques et morales dans l’exploitation illégale des Protocole sur la démocratie et la bonne gouvernance

ressources naturelles ; Les Etats membres s’engagent à respecter et à promouvoir la démocratie et la bonne

gouvernance, conformément au Protocole sur la démocratie et la bonne gouvernance, (c) de mettre en place un mécanisme régional de certification de l’exploitation, de et, en particulier : l’évaluation et du contrôle des ressources naturelles dans la Région des Grands

Lacs. (a) à respecter et à promouvoir les principes et normes démocratiques ;

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(b) à mettre en place des institutions de promotion de la bonne gouvernance, Protocole sur la zone spécifique de reconstruction et de développement

de l’état de droit et du respect des droits de l’homme, à travers des systèmes Les Etats membres conviennent, conformément au Protocole sur la zone spécifique constitutionnels fondés sur la séparation des pouvoirs, le pluralisme politique, de reconstruction et de développement, de mettre en œuvre une dynamique de l’organisation régulière d’élections libres, démocratiques et crédibles, la gestion développement économique et d’intégration régionale participative, transparente et responsable des affaires, des institutions et des de proximité, en application de la décision contenue dans la Déclaration de Dar-es- biens publics. Salaam, de faire de la Région des Grands Lacs une zone spécifique de reconstruction

Ar ticle 7 et de développement et, à cet effet, instituent en particulier : Protocole sur la coopération judiciaire

Les Etats membres s’engagent, conformément au Protocole sur la coopération judiciaire, (a) des bassins transfrontaliers de développement pour promouvoir une intégration à coopérer en matière d’extradition, d’enquête et de poursuites judiciaires. régionale de proximité des populations aux frontières des pays de la Région ;

Ar ticle 8 (b) un Fonds spécial pour la reconstruction et le développement ayant pour but de Protocole sur la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide, des crimes de guerre financer la mise en œuvre des Protocoles, des Programmes d’action retenus et des crimes contre l’humanité et de toute forme de discrimination

dans les domaines prioritaires de la paix et de la sécurité, de la démocratie et Les Etats membres, conformément au Protocole sur la prévention et la répression du de la bonne gouvernance, du développement économique et de l’intégration crime de génocide, des crimes de guerre et des crimes contre l’humanité ainsi que régionale, du traitement des questions humanitaires et sociales, ainsi que des de toute forme de discrimination, reconnaissent que le crime de génocide, les crimes questions liées à l’environnement. de guerre et les crimes contre l’humanité sont des crimes en droit international et contre les droits des peuples, et s’engagent en particulier : 13 09 11 11

a) à s’abstenir, à prévenir et à réprimer de tels Article 11 crimes ;

Protocole sur la prévention et la répression de la violence sexuelle à l’égard des femmes et des enfants

b) à condamner et à éliminer toute forme de discrimination et de

pratiques discriminatoires ; Les Etats membres s’engagent, conformément au Protocole sur la prévention et

la répression de la violence sexuelle à l’égard des femmes et des enfants, à c) à veiller au strict respect de cet engagement par toutes les autorités et lutter contre ce fléau grâce à des mesures de prévention, dépénalisation et de institutions publiques, nationales, régionales et locales ; répression en temps de paix comme en temps de guerre, conformément aux lois

nationales et au droit pénal international. (d) à proscrire toute propagande et organisation qui s’inspire d’idées ou de

théories fondées sur la supériorité d’une race ou d’un groupe de personnes Ar ticle 12

d’origine ethnique particulière, ou qui tentent de justifier ou d’encourager Protocole sur la protection et l’assistance aux personnes déplacées

toute forme de haine ou de discrimination raciale, ethnique, religieuse ou Les Etats membres conviennent, conformément au Protocole sur la protection fondée sur le genre. et l’assistance aux personnes

Ar ticle 9 déplacées, d’apporter une protection et une assistance spéciales aux personnes déplacées et en particulier, d’adopter et de mettre en œuvre les Protocole sur la lutte contre l’exploitation illégale des ressources naturelles

Principes directeurs relatifs aux personnes déplacées tels que proposés par le Les Etats membres conviennent, conformément au Protocole sur la lutte Secrétariat des Nations Unies. contre l’exploitation illégale des ressources naturelles, de mettre en place des

règles et mécanismes régionaux pour lutter contre l’exploitation illégale des Article 13

ressources naturelles qui constitue une violation du droit de souveraineté Protocole sur les droits à la propriété des rapatriés

permanente des Etats sur leurs ressources naturelles et qui représente une source

grave d’insécurité, d’instabilité, de tension et de conflits, et en particulier : Les Etats membres s’engagent, conformément au Protocole sur les droits de

propriété des rapatriés à assurer (a) de s’assurer que toute activité portant sur les ressources naturelles respecte la protection juridique des propriétés des personnes déplacées et des réfugiés, scrupuleusement la souveraineté permanente de chaque Etat sur ses ressources dans leurs pays d’origine, et en particulier à : naturelles et soit conforme aux législations nationales harmonisées ainsi

qu’aux principes de transparence, de responsabilité, d’équité et de respect de a) adopter des principes juridiques en vertu desquels les Etats membres garantissant l’environnement et des établissements humains ; aux réfugiés et aux personnes déplacées la récupération, à leur retour dans leur 12 10 12 14

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zone d’origine, de leurs biens avec l’assistance des autorités traditionnelles et du Pacte lorsque le recours aux instruments visés à l’article 28 (2), (3), (4) s’avère

administratives locales ; infructueux.

(d) coordonner la mise en oeuvre des activités de la Conférence relevant Chapitre VII. Dispositions Finales

des communautés économiques régionales compétentes et des institutions Ar ticle 30 décentralisées et affiliées ; Signature et ratification

(e) élaborer les programmes d’activités et le projet de budget du Secrétariat de 1. Le présent Pacte est ouvert à la signature et à la ratification de tous les Etats la Conférence, et assurer leur exécution après leur approbation par le Comité membres de la Conférence; interministériel.

2. Les instruments de ratification sont déposés auprès du Secrétariat de la 3. Le Secrétaire exécutif peut demander une assistance technique auprès de l’Union Conférence.

africaine, des Nations unies, des partenaires et organisations de coopération ;

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4. Le budget de fonctionnement du Secrétariat de la Conférence est proposé tous les Non-sélectivité et réserves

deux ans par le Secrétaire exécutif et approuvé par le Sommet sur recommandation

du Comité interministériel régional. Il est alimenté par les contributions statutaires 1. Les Etats membres acceptent d’appliquer l’intégralité des dispositions du présent

des Etats Membres et des ressources mobilisées auprès des partenaires à la Pacte selon le principe de la non sélectivité ;

coopération et au développement de la Région des Grands Lacs et par toute

autre ressource déterminée par la Conférence ; 2. Aucune réserve ne peut être émise sur le présent Pacte.

Ar ticle 32 5. Le mode de calcul des contributions des Etats membres et la monnaie de paiement Dépôt et enregistrement sont déterminés par le Comité interministériel ;

1. Le Secrétaire-Général des Nations Unies est le dépositaire du présent Pacte ; 6. Le recrutement des cadres supérieurs du Secrétariat respecte le principe de la

représentation équitable et s’effectue sur une base rotative entre les ressortissants 2. Le Secrétariat de la Conférence prend les dispositions nécessaires des Etats membres. pour l’enregistrement du présent Pacte après son entrée en vigueur,

auprès du Secrétaire Général des Nations unies, et du Président de la Ar ticle 27 23

15 Mécanismes nationaux de coordination13 et de coopération 15

1. Chaque Etat membre établit un mécanisme national de coordination de la

2. ConférenceLe Comité en inte vuerministériel d’y faciliter établit la mise des en oeuvremécanismes du présent de Pacte;coopération visant à c) la promotion de l’intégration régionale de proximité par le renforcement de la coordonner les activités de mise en oeuvre du Pacte en collaboration avec les coopération et de la solidarité multisectorielle entre populations aux frontières des 21 Etats membres, les communautés économiques régionales pays limitrophes.

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Chapitre VI. Règlement Pacifique Des Différends

1. Le présent Pacte entre en vigueur trente jours après réception du huitième instrument de Ar ticle 28 ratification par le Secrétariat de la Conférence;

Règlement pacifique des différends

2. Pour tout Etat ayant ratifié le présent Pacte après la date de réception par le

1. Les Etats membres conviennent de régler pacifiquement leurs différends ; dépositaire du huitième instrument de ratification, le présent Pacte entre en vigueur le

trentième jour après la date de réception de son instrument de ratification par le

2. A cet effet, les Etats membres s’engagent à régler leurs différends par la Secrétariat de la Conférence.

négociation, les enquêtes, la médiation, la conciliation ou par tout autre autre Ar ticle 34 moyen politique dans le cadre du Mécanisme régional de suivi ; Amendements et révision

3. Les Etats membres s’engagent à recourir aux instruments de règlement des litiges 1. Tout Etat membre ayant ratifié le présent Pacte peut proposer des amendements ou visés au paragraphe 2 ci-dessus, avant d’avoir recours à d’ autres mécanismes une révision du internationaux, politiques, diplomatiques ou judiciaires ; Pacte ;

4. les Etats membres peuvent s’inspirer des moyens de règlement pacifique prévus par la 2. Toute proposition d’amendement ou de révision du Pacte est adressée par écrit Charte des Nations Unies et l’Acte constitutif de l’Union africaine après avoir au Secrétariat de la Conférence qui en informe immédiatement les autres Etats épuisé les moyens de règlement pacifique des différends visés aux paragraphes membres ;

2 et 3 ci-dessus.

3. La proposition d’amendement ou de révision du Pacte est soumise aux Etats

Ar ticle 29 membres au moins six mois avant la session du Sommet au cours de laquelle elle sera proposée et adoptée ; Différends relatifs à l’interprétation et à l’application du présent Pacte

4. La décision d’amendement ou de révision du Pacte est prise à la majorité qualifiée Les Etats membres conviennent de soumettre à la Cour africaine de justice tout de huit des douze Etats membres présents et votants ; différend relatif à l’interprétation ou à l’application de l’intégralité ou d’une partie 14 16 20 22 25

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5. Tout amendement ou révision adopté, conformément aux dispositions de l’alinéa

4 du présent article, est adressé par le Secrétariat de la Conférence à tous les Etats membres pour acceptation. Les instruments d’acceptation des amendements ou des révisions sont déposés auprès du Secrétariat de la Conférence ;

6. L’amendement ou la révision entre en vigueur pour tous les Etats membres 30 jours après réception par le Secrétariat de la Conférence du 8ème instrument de ratification conformément à l’article 33 ci-dessus.

7. Toutefois, les projets et budgets approuvés dans le cadre des Programmes d’action, des Protocoles et des mécanismes de suivi peuvent faire l’objet de modifications sans recours aux procédures d’amendement ou de révision prévues.

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Dénonciation

1. Toute Etat membre ayant ratifié le présent Pacte peut se retirer de ce Pacte dix ans après l’entrée en vigueur du Pacte dans ce pays en notifiant par écrit au dépositaire sa décision de se retirer ;

2. Ce retrait prend effet après l’expiration du délai d’un an à partir de la date de réception de la notification du retrait par le dépositaire.

En foi de quoi, nous, Chefs d’Etat et de Gouvernement des pays membres de la Conférence Internationale sur la Région des Grands Lacs, avons signé solennellement le présent Pacte en cinq versions originales, en anglais, français, arabe, portugais et kiswahili, chaque version faisant également foi. 17

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Note conceptuelle:

EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT SECRÉTARIAT EXÉCUTIF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CONFÉRENCE INTERNATIONALE ON THE GREAT LAKES REGION SUR LA RÉGION DES GRANDS LACS

Conférence Régionale sur les Stratégies pour la Mise en œuvre des Instruments de la CIRGL sur les Violences Basées sur le Sexe et le Genre dans la Région des Grands Lacs. Conférence de Haut Niveau pour les Ministres du Genre, les autorités judiciaires, les Parlementaires, les Coordonnateurs Nationaux de la CIRGL ainsi que les Centres de la CIRGL et les Forums sur les Stratégies pour la Mise en œuvre des Instruments de la CIRGL sur les Violences basées sur le Genre. Kampala, Ouganda, du 1er au 3 décembre 2017

Lieu de la tenue de la conférence: Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort Hotel, Kampala-Uganda Date: 1er au 3 Décembre 2017

Nathan Mwesigye Byamukama Ag. Director, Centre de Formation Régionale de la CIRGL (RTF) pour la Prévention et la Répression des Violences Basées sur le Genre

Introduction est institutionnalisé. Le Forum des acteurs. La CIRGL possède aussi un (ii) Rendre opérationnel le Co- mestication, l’accès à la justice, la a Violence Sexuelle est l’un des Parlements de la CIRGL (FP-CIRGL) mécanisme pour la mise en œuvre mité du FP-CIRGL sur les Femmes, les formation des acteurs, la sensibili- crimes les plus répandus, et le basé à Kinshasa, le Forum régional de ses instruments et décisions tant Enfants et les Personnes Vulnérables sation, la Prévention, la lutte contre Lplus complexe dans la Région des jeunes (FRJ) basé à Nairobi), le aux niveaux national que régional, qui aura la charge de gérer la mise en l’impunité, l’appui aux victimes et le des Grands Lacs que la Conférence In- Forum de la Société Civile (RCSF) de notamment ceux en lien avec les vio- œuvre des Instruments de la CIRGL Financement des Violences sexuelles ternationale sur la Région des Grands Dar es Salam et le Forum Régional des lences sexuelles; mais, pour diverses sur les violences sexuelles au sein des et Basées sur le Genre. Lacs (CIRGL) s’est engagée à éradi- Femmes (RWF) qui sera basé à Kigali raisons, entre autres, le manque de Etats Membres respectifs; quer. Sa prévention, la criminalisa- contribuent à la mise en œuvre du sensibilisation, les mécanismes ne (iii) Evaluer la mise en applica- La conférence se terminera par tion et punition n’ont été ni faciles ni mandat international du Secrétariat sont pas exploités de manière uni- tion des instruments de la CIRGL par l’inauguration des nouveaux bureaux efficaces. La lutte menée pour mettre de la CIRGL qui a son siège à Bujum- forme ou harmonieuse. Les obliga- les Etats Membres en matière des du RTF à Munyonyo, fin à ce crime se poursuit et il faut at- bura et qui consiste à assurer le suivi tions aux termes de ces instruments Violences sexuelles et Basées sur le taquer ce problème sur tous les fronts de la mise en œuvre du Pacte sur la exigent que les Etats Membres do- Genre six ans la mise en œuvre de 1ère Journée: Sera axée sur les In- en utilisant une approche multisecto- Sécurité, la Stabilité et le Développe- mestiquent ces instruments; finan- la Déclaration de Kampala et 10 ans struments de la CIRGL, d’autres in- rielle, à même de relever le défi. Il est ment dans la Région des Grands Lacs. cent les structures créées par ces pour ce qui concerne la mise en struments régionaux et les instru- plus que temps de réévaluer la mise Par ailleurs, la CIRGL a d’autres orga- instruments, amendent les lois et les œuvre du Pacte; ments de l’ONU sur les Violences en œuvre de ces instruments par nes décentralisés comme le Régional procédures enclenchées par les cours (iv) Partager le travail et les sexuelles et Basées sur le Genre. Il les Etats Membres au moment où le Training Facility/Centre de Forma- et tribunaux qui sont contraires aux stratégies du Secrétariat de la CIRGL sera également prévu une évaluation Pacte sur la Sécurité, la Stabilité et tion Régional (RTF) sur la Prévention instruments et prennent des mesures et de ses organes décentralisés dont de l’état de leur mise en œuvre par les le Développement dans la Région des des Violences sexuelles et basées sur juridiques et administratives légales le Centre régional de formation sur Etats Membres. Grands Lacs (ce que d’autres quali- le Genre à Kampala et le Centre Levy dans le but de s’y conformer. La con- les VSBG et les Foras de la Société ci- fient de Constitution de la “CIRGL”) Mwanawasa sur la Démocratie et la férence se mettra d’accord sur des vile, des jeunes Forum des Parlemen- 2ème Journée: Il est prévu des dé- et son Protocole relatif à la Préven- Bonne Gouvernance dont le siège est stratégies réalistes visant la mise en taires et tous les organes de la CIRGL bats sur les perspectives des gouver- tion et la Répression des Violences à Lusaka (LMWCDGG). En sus, le Mé- œuvre effective de ces instruments engagés dans la lutte contre le crime nements et des organisations de la Sexuelles Contre les Femmes et les canisme de Coordination Nationale dans tous les secteurs gouvernemen- des violences sexuelles; Société Civile sur comment ils voient Enfants auront 11 ans d’âge après leur de la CIRGL mandaté aux termes du taux tout en réalisant des concerta- (v) Sensibiliser les délégués l’évolution, les défis et les recomman- signature par les Etats Membres. En Pacte est un organe de la CIRGL qui tions significatives avec la société sur le progrès réalisé par le Centre dations/nouvelles stratégies après les outre, le 15 décembre sera célébré le assure la mise en œuvre du Pacte au civile, les femmes et la jeunesse. régional de formation depuis le 10 ans de la mise en œuvre du Pacte et sixième anniversaire de la signature niveau national. Au niveau régional, début, il y a 3 ans et sensibiliser les les 6 ans de la mise en œuvre de la de la Déclaration de Kampala sur les le secrétariat de la conférence suit Objectifs Etats Membres sur leur rôle pour les Déclaration de Kampala. Violences Sexuelles. la mise en œuvre des décisions du Les objectifs de la conférence sont besoins d’efficacité du Centre en tant comité des ministres des affaires les suivants: que centre d’excellence; 3ème Journée: Sera axée sur les dé- Historique et contexte étrangères, appelé comité Intermin- (i) Informer les Ministres en (vi) Ouvrir officiellement le nou- bats avec les membres des différents La CIRGL est une organisation in- istériel Régional (RIMC) et des Chefs charge du genre, les Parlementaires, veau bureau du Centre de Kampala, gouvernements et des partenaires tergouvernementale composée de 12 d’Etat et de Gouvernement (Som- les Autorités judiciaires, les Coordon- Ouganda. sur les stratégies d’un Centre ré- Etats Membres qui ont signé et rati- met). nateurs Nationaux et les Membres du gional d’Excellence pour combattre fié le Pacte sur la Sécurité, la Stabilité FRF sur la situation en général, en La conférence sera ouverte par le crime de violences sexuelles et et le Développement dans la Région La Problématique soulignant les défis et les faiblesses un invité d’Honneur (probablement basées sur le genre et se terminera des Grands Lacs. Le Pacte comporte La CIRGL possède des instruments persistants dans la mise en œuvre la Première Dame et Ministre en par une information sur le Centre et 10 protocoles et 4 Programmes légaux dûment signés dont certains des Instruments de la CIRGL sur les charge de l’Education & des Sports) l’ouverture officielle de ce dernier. d’Actions. Le rôle des parlements, de ont été ratifiés avec un caractère con- Violences Sexuelles (plus particu- ou le Ministre en charge des Affaires la jeunesse, des femmes et la société traignant pour les Etats Membres. lièrement la Déclaration de Kampala Etrangères. La méthodologie utili- Justification civile de participer à l’instauration Ces instruments ne sont malheu- et le Protocole de la CIRGL sur les sée prévoit des exposés d’experts Le Pacte sur la Sécurité, la Stabilité de la paix, la sécurité et le développe- reusement pas connus ni vulgarisés Violences sexuelles et Basées sur le conformément au programme, avec et le Développement dans la Région ment dans la Région des Grands Lacs comme il se doit auprès de tous les le Genre); des sessions thématiques sur la do- des Grands Lacs engage les Etats the 26 great region 2017

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People Fleeing fighting in South Sudan. The Most affected are women and children and face sexual and gender based Violence.

Membres de la CIRGL à prévenir, des invitations à remettre par le biais ganes de la CIRGL et les centres et Genre) est une nouvelle institution de criminaliser et punir les actes de vio- Les instruments de la CIRGL sur des Parlements Nationaux des Etats forums décentralisés marqueront la CIRGL dont les services et la valeur lences sexuelles aussi bien en temps les Violences sexuelles et Basées sur Membres de la CIRGL à leurs Mem- leur entrée et contribution dans la doivent être vulgarisées. Il a été créé de paix qu’en temps de guerre (art 11). le Genre comportent : la Déclaration bres désignés pour servir dans le Co- lutte contre le crime des violences en application de l’Article 11 du Pacte La CIRGL possède en outre un Proto- de Dar es Salaam (2004), l’article 11 mité du FP-CIRGL sur les Femmes, les sexuelles et basées sur le genre de la CIRGL, l’Article 6(9) du Proto- cole sur la Prévention et la Répres- du Pacte sur la Sécurité, la Stabilité Enfants et les Personnes Vulnérables dans leurs domaines respectifs. A cole de la CIRGL sur la Prévention et sion des Violences Basées sexuelles et et le Développement dans la Région pour rendre opérationnel le Comité l’exception du Centre où le man- la Répression des Violences Sexuelles basées sur le le Genre, signé et rati- des Grands Lacs, le Protocole sur la des Femmes, des Enfants et des Per- dat est de former et de sensibiliser contre les femmes et les enfants ainsi fié en même temps que le Pacte de la Prévention et la Répression des Vio- sonnes Vulnérables. Après la con- les acteurs dans le domaine des que la Résolution 14 de la Déclara- CIRGL par tous les Etats Membres. lences Sexuelles contre les Femmes férence, le Comité jouera un rôle cen- Violences sexuelles et Basées sur le tion de Kampala sur les Violences Le Protocole exige sa domestication et les Enfants dans la Région des tral en s’assurant que les Parlements Genre , on attend un engagement Sexuelles et les Sommets de la CIRGL et de ce point de vue, le rôle des par- Grands Lacs, la Déclaration de Goma des Etats Membres priorisent la do- des autres centres et forums de la ultérieurs et des décisions du Comité lementaires est crucial. Le Protocole (2008) et la Déclaration de Kampala. mestication des Instruments sur les CIRGL en démontrant comment ils interministériel régional (RIMC). Le créé aussi le Centre de Formation Ré- Cependant, très peu d’acteurs sont Violences sexuelles et Basées sur le comptent contribuer à la prévention, Centre de Formation Régionale de la gional sur la Prévention des violences au courant de leurs obligations aux Genre, mènent un plaidoyer pour les à lutte contre l’impunité et assister CIRGL (RTF) sur la Prévention des Vi- sexuelles, avec pour mandat de for- termes de ces instruments et pour- budgets y relatif et répondent à leurs les victimes des Violences sexuelles olences Sexuelles a été officiellement mer et de sensibiliser les autorités tant ils ont un rôle important dans obligations financières aux termes de et Basées sur le Genre. Tous les par- ouvert le 18 février 2014 et rendu judiciaires, les officiers de police, les leur mise en œuvre au niveau na- ces instruments. ticipants ont un rôle à jouer dans la opérationnel en avril 2014. Le mandat agents sociaux, le personnel médical tional. C’est le lieu de sensibiliser les lutte contre le crime des violences du Centre est de “…former et sensibil- et tout autre personne qui s’occupe participants sur ces instruments et La lutte contre les violences sex- sexuelles et basées sur le genre . iser les unités de police, les autorités des cas de violences sexuelles au de partager les rapports sur la portée uelles exige des efforts collectifs judiciaires, le personnel médical, les sein des Etats membres de la CIRGL du problème de violences sexuelles et transversaux dans plusieurs do- Vulgarisation du mandat du Centre agents Sociaux et d’autres catégories (art (6(9). Ce centre est opérationnel dans la Région des Grands Lacs maines : la paix, la sécurité et le de Formation des personnes qui traitent des cas de depuis 3 ans et a formé plus de 450 Développement, tel que reflété dans Le Centre de Formation Régional violences sexuelles dans la Région acteurs professionnels sur la manière En étroite collaboration avec le Fo- la Déclaration de Kampala sur les (RTF) (autrement appelé centre des Grands Lacs”. C’est conforme de traiter efficacement les cas de vio- rum des Parlementaires (FP-CIRGL) Violences sexuelles et Basées sur le de Kampala pour la lutte contre les aux engagements de la CIRGL de lences sexuelles. basé à Kinshasa, en RDC, il préparera Genre; de ce fait, les différents or- Violences sexuelles et Basées sur le prévenir, de criminaliser, de combat- the great 27 2017 region

tre l’impunité contre les crimes de de représentant des femmes; et Basées sur le Genre . Il déclare “….. une bibliothèque, des activités extra- h) Les Parlementaires part- violences sexuelles et d’appuyer les (ii) Appui à la Recherche – Le création de structure spéciale grâce scolaires et des centres de stimula- ageront les expériences de leurs Etats victimes de violence Sexuelles con- Centre poursuivra ses recherches au fond pour la reconstruction et tion. Nous envisageons de réaliser Membres respectifs dans la domesti- formément à l’art 11 du Pacte et des dans les Etats Membres sur la prob- le développement, dont le but sera tout cela dans les trois prochaines cation des Instruments de la CIRGL Protocoles y relatifs. lématique des Violences sexuelles et d’apporter l’assistance sociale et années pour assurer la pérennisa- sur les Violences sexuelles et Basées Basées sur le Genre pour les besoins juridique, le traitement médical, le tion du centre. L’établissement aura sur le Genre; Dès le début, il y a trois ans, le Cen- de la formation. Nous pensons main- soutien psychologique, la formation, besoin de l’appui des Etats Membres i) La documentation sur les tre a pu organiser huit (8) ateliers tenant à une recherche comparative la réhabilitation et la réintégration et des Partenaires au Développement rapports pertinents et les magazines régionaux de haut niveau et des ate- dans la Région des Grands Lacs pour des survivants et des victimes de vio- pour accélérer la matérialisation de sur les Violences sexuelles et Basées liers de formation au niveau national évaluer le lien entre les violences sex- lences sexuelles ainsi qu’à ceux qui cette vision. sur le Genre, le Centre , le Secrétariat pour la Police, les Militaires, les of- uelles et l’industrie extractive (plus ne pourront identifier les auteurs de de la CIRGL et d’autres organes de la ficiers judiciaires, le personnel médi- précisément dans les domaines de violences sexuelles”; Résultats attendus CIRGL seront disponibles pour facili- cal, les procureurs, la société civile l’exploitation illégale des ressources a) Election du Bureau du Co- ter les partages et les discussions; et les journalistes dans la Région des nationales). Nous aurons aussi be- (b) Traitement accéléré des mité du FP-CIGRL sur les Femmes, les j) Les partenaires au Dével- Grands Lacs. La GIZ et d’autres parte- soin des données sur ce qui existe et “Centres de récupération” tel que Enfants et les Personnes Vulnérables; oppement et les Etats Membres fer- naires ont appuyé ces formations. ce qui n’existe pas dans les différents prévu aux termes de la Résolution 11 b) Présentation sur les Instru- ont des sensibilisations sur la néces- D’autres ont associé l’Initiative de Etats par rapport au renforcement de KD, fournir des services complets ments de la CIRGL sur les Violences sité d’appuyer de manière pérenne le la Banque Mondiale et des Pays Bas des droits des femmes, de l’égalité d’assistance psycho-sociale, médico- sexuelles et Basées sur le Genre dé- Centre comme centre d’excellence; pour le Renforcement des Capaci- en matière de genre et de l’équité sociaux et judiciaires/poursuites. Des coulant d’un examen objectif de l’état k) Un rapport de la réunion tés dans l’Enseignement Supérieur conformément aux instruments des services beaucoup plus assouplis par- de mise en œuvre des Instruments de sera produit et partagé avec tous les (NICHE). droits de l’homme et des normes ticulièrement pour les femmes, la jeu- la CIRGL, notamment le Pacte, le Pro- acteurs. pour les besoins d’améliorations et nesse, le PWD et les hommes”; tocole et la Déclaration de Kampala L’Initiative de la Banque Mondiale de conformité – partiellement à trav- sur les Violences sexuelles et Basées Participants et des Pays Bas pour le Renforcement ers la formation pour le changement (c) Formation pour la sur le Genre au sein des Etats Mem- 1- Ministres du Genre (1x12) des Capacités dans l’Enseignement d’attitude et l’acquisition des apti- Réhabilitation et Récupération en bres de la CIRGL. 2- Parlementaires (1x 12) Supérieur (NICHE), appuie un projet tudes selon le cas; faveur du personnel carcéral- La c) Faire une mise au point sur 3- Patron de la Justice (1x12) de quatre ans dans le cadre du “Projet plupart des initiatives de prévention les Formations futures au niveau du 4- FRF (1x12) des Grands Lacs sur la Lutte contre (iii) Tribunaux Spéciaux sur des Violences sexuelles et Basées sur Centre sur les Violences sexuelles et 5- Coordonnateurs nationaux (1x12) les Violences sexuelles et Basées sur les Violences Basées sur le Genre le Genre se focalisent sur les victimes. Basées sur le Genre; 6- Secrétariat de la Conférence (1x4) le Genre et la Santé des Femmes” et et le Sexe: - Les Etats Membres sensi- Les auteurs sont rarement inquiétés d) Rapport de l’engagement 7- Centre de Lusaka (1x1) “le Renforcement Institutionnel du bilisés sur comment mettre en place et donc l’impunité et l’injustice font sur les stratégies de mise en œuvre 8- Forum Régional de la Société Civile Centre pour assurer les Programmes les Tribunaux Spéciaux, des Sessions le lit du récidivisme et davantage des des Instruments de la CIRGL sur les (1x3) de Formation dans la Prévention et la et Procédures Spéciales pour les cas actes de Violences sexuelles et Basées Violences Sexuelles; 9- Centre de Formation Régionale Réduction des Violences sexuelles et des Violences Sexuelles tel que requis le Genre couplés de victimisation. Art e) Présentation du commu- (RTF) (1x 8) Basées sur le Genre (VSBG) dans la par la déclaration de Kampala. Cer- 5(2) du Protocole de la CIRGL sur la niqué final de la Réunion de Haut 10- Regional Youth Forum (RYF) (1x2) Région des Grands Lacs” respective- tains Etats de la région sont en train situation des Violences Sexuelles Niveau sur les Stratégies de mise en 11- Forum de Parlement (1x3) ment. En général, les Projets appuient d’évoluer lentement mais surement “les Etats Membres veilleront à ce œuvre des instruments de la CIRGL 12- JVM (ix1) le Centre dans l’élaboration et la mise vers cet engagement (ex. l’Ouganda que les personnes condamnées pour sur les violences sexuelles. 13- JFC (1x1) en en œuvre de deux programmes de et le Burundi) et cette évolution sera les cas de violences sexuelles soient 14- Norvège x 1 formation de haute qualité pour les partagée avec les Etats membres. Le l’objet des mesures correctionnelles Résultats escomptés 15- Ambassade d’Allemagne x1 acteurs et le renforcement des capac- personnel dans ces tribunaux sera et de réhabilitation sociale pendant a) Le Bureau du Comité du 16- Danemark ités du Centre à exécuter son man- formé par le Centre conformément qu’elles servent leurs peines”. Des FP-CIRGL sur le Genre, les Femmes 17- Chine dat. Aux termes de ces deux projets, à la Résolution 8 de la Déclaration de études ont démontré que la plupart et les Personnes Vulnérables sera 18- Représentants des Etats Membres le Centre aura mis au point les man- Kampala pour accélérer le traitement des personnes en prison sont là pour installé avec pour mission de mener de la CIRGL/Ambassadeurs uels de formations standardisés et des dossiers de Violences sexuelles et des cas liés aux violences sexuelles, des plaidoyers pour la domestication des programmes de formation pour Basées sur le Genre par la police et alors que le taux de condamnation est des instruments de lutte contre les Société Civile les officiers judiciaires, la police, les l’appareil judiciaire. En sus, le Centre trop bas suite à la difficulté de réunir Violences sexuelles et Basées sur le 19- FIDA agents d’assistance psycho-sociale, travaillera avec l’appareil judiciaire des preuves liées au crime. L’appui Genre par les Parlements de la Région 20- AMwA le personnel médical et les officiers pendant les formations pour veiller est requis pour que le Centre mette des Grands Lacs. 21- Action Aid de police d’ici avril 2018. Par ailleurs, à la conformité avec l’Art 6(5) du pro- au point les manuels de formation qui b) Les Parlementaires, les Min- 22- UWONET le Centre aura 12 maitres formateurs tocole de la CIRGL sur les Violences aideraient le personnel carcéral à of- istres, les Coordonnateurs Nation- 23- SOS qui travailleront avec les consultants sexuelles et Basées sur le Genre qui frir les thérapies de réhabilitation des aux et les représentants du Forum 24- Plan-International pour mettre au point des matériels de stipule que “les procédures pour la personnes condamnées pour actes de Régional des Femmes acquérons la 25- WICCE formation standardisés et les 120 For- poursuite des personnes accusées de violences sexuelles afin de les amener compréhension du contenu de plus- 26- Raising Voices mateurs Nationaux (NT) (c.à.d. 10 de crime de violence Sexuelle auront un à changer d’attitude par rapport à ieurs instruments de la CIRGL sur les 27- CEDOVIP chaque Etat Membre) qui seront for- caractère sensible vu l’état émotion- leur attitude affichée au moment de Violences sexuelles et Basées sur le més par les Maitres Formateurs pour nel des victimes et des survivants de la commission du crime surtout les Genre; Partenaires (à peu près 10 ainsi apporter leur appui à l’’organisation ces crimes. Aux termes de ces procé- amener à régler définitivement leur c) Les participants, c.à.d. les que l’ONU-pourront se prendre en des formations en cascade au niveau dures ces victimes et survivants comportement vis-à-vis des femmes, Parlementaires, les Ministres et les charge mais pourront être cou- national pour les professionnels re- fourniront la preuve, à huis clos ou des hommes et la communauté une représentants des Mécanismes Na- verts dans le package de la con- spectifs. Toutes ces évolutions doi- par vidéo, et ne seront ni forcées ni fois relaxées de la prison; tionaux de Coordination et du Forum férence) vent être communiquées aux acteurs obligées de fournir des preuves dans Régional des Femmes vont acquérir 29- GIZ x1 des Etats Membres de la Conférence une procédure criminelle ouverte; (d) Appui au Renforcement des ainsi une nette compréhension du 30- UNITAR x1 pour solliciter leur appui. il ne sera non plus permis un quel- capacités du Centre La Commis- Centre basé à Kampala (centre de 31- Coopération Suisse conque dénigrement sur leur carac- sion de l’Union Africaine a renouvelé Kampala) et une mise au point est 32- O/SESG-GLR En conséquence, outre la sensibili- tère et intégrité dans le cadre de la son engagement à se positionner prévue sur comment les services du 33- O/SRSG-SVC sation des participants sur les instru- défense de toute personne accusée de au centre de l’excellence non seule- Centre seront utilisés et comment le 34- Banque Mondiale x 1 ments de la CIRGL, lesquels instru- crimes de Violence Sexuelle”; ment pour la Région des Grands Lacs centre d’excellence sera appuyé; 35- Ambassade des Pays Bas x1 ments visent la domestication pour mais pour l’Afrique en général. La d) Les progrès réalisés dans la 36- Représentant NICHE x 1 une applicabilité facile dans les Etats (iv) Financement des dossiers Résolution 14 du KD et l’Art 6(9) du mise au point du programme stan- 37- Suède x 1 membres , le Centre sollicitera auprès de Violences sexuelles et Basées Protocole de la CIRGL crée le Cen- dardisé par le Centre seront parta- 38- British High Commission x1 des acteurs l’appui dans les domaines sur le Genre et Contribution au tre conformément à un mandat de gés pour une meilleure appréciation 39- Union Européenne x 1 suivants: Fond Spécial pour la reconstruc- formation et de sensibilisation des et contribution; 40- Italie x 1 tion et le développement: Sensi- officiers judiciaires, des agents so- e) Une discussion interactive 41- DFID (i) Des programmes de for- biliser les Etats Membres à mettre ciaux, des officiers médicaux, de la sera tenue sur le progrès réalisé et les 42- USAID/Consulat Américain mation du Centre en cascade au en œuvre les clauses du Protocole police et de tous ceux qui gèrent les défis auxquels a fait face la mise en niveau National – Au moins 4 dif- de la CIRGL sur la Prévention et la dossiers de violence sexuelle. Cette œuvre du Pacte de la CIRGL au cours Gouvernement Ougandais férentes formations (pour le per- Répression des Violences Sexuelles institution doit dans sa formation des 10 dernières années et 6 ans après 43- IGP/police sonnel de la police, du judiciaire, contre les Femmes et les Enfants inclure la gestion des survivants des la déclaration de Kampala sur les vio- 44- Genre d’assistance psycho-sociale et médi- – et la Déclaration de Kampala sur Violences Sexuelles et Basées sur lences sexuelles; 45- Justice caux), s’appuyant sur les matériels les Violences Sexuelles (2011) – plus le Genre. Le Centre a fait un travail f) Des discussions seront or- 46- Tribunaux élaborés par le Centre pour chaque particulièrement celles qui ont trait à louable jusque-là, y compris dans ganisées pour mieux cerner les défis 47- JLOs Etat membre pour environ 35 profes- l’assistance aux victimes survivantes l’acquisition d’un bureau permanent et les leçons apprises dans la mise en 48- UPDF sionnels par formation d’au moins des violences sexuelles, plus particu- vu la nécessité d’améliorer la perfor- œuvre des Protocoles; 49- Finance cinq jours. Ces formations seront as- lièrement: mance des ressources humaines et les g) Des consultants (s) feront 50- SURGE surées dans les pays membres et au- infrastructures appropriées pour le des exposés sur les conclusions dé- 51- Prisons ront besoin de l’appui des Coordina- (a) Accélérer l’appui aux vic- centre d’excellence qui devra abriter coulant des travaux sur l’accès à la teurs Nationaux, des Parlementaires, times en appliquant l’article 6 (8) du un centre de formation pour les for- justice en matière de genre au sein Venue Munyonyo Commonwealth des Ministres en charge du genre et protocole sur les Violences sexuelles mateurs et les formés, un restaurant, des Etats Membres de la CIRGL; Resort Hotel, Kampala-Uganda. the 28 great region 2017

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EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT SECRÉTARIAT EXÉCUTIF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CONFÉRENCE INTERNATIONALE ON THE GREAT LAKES REGION SUR LA RÉGION DES GRANDS LACS

La Déclaration de Goma sur l’Elimination de la violence sexuelle et la lutte contre l’impunité dans la Région des Grands Lacs -- Goma, le 18 Juin 2008

Nous, participants des États mem- Enfants (2000), le Statut de Rome plus en plus par des civils également, l’accès aux soins médicaux, services grammes d’assistance disponibles bres de la Conférence internationale (2002), la Déclaration de Bamako qui Convaincus que la situation dans la juridiques et psycho-sociaux, aux victimes de violences sexuelles sur la Région des Grands Lacs (CIRGL) constitue la position commune afric- Région des Grands Lacs est très com- 6. Les États membres devront et sexospécifiques dans des langues délégués de différents ministères et aine sur la prolifération, la circula- plexe et spéciale et que tous les survi- créer un mécanisme de contrôle et formats qui sont accessibles à la départements gouvernementaux, de tion et le trafic sur les armes légères vants, y compris les déplacés internes pour filtrer les candidatures à des population à la base et aux sociétés concert avec les organisations de la et les armes de petit calibre (2000), le et les réfugiéss ont besoin de protec- postes officiels dans l’armée, la po- civiles, société civile, les leaders tradition- Protocole de Nairobi pour la préven- tion, de justice et de réadaptation, lice ou d’autres services de sécurité 15. Les Etats membres mettront nels et religieux, les organisations tion, le contrôle et la réduction des en dépit des différences de situation d’individus ayant un passé de viola- en place une stratégie nationale des non gouvernementales internatio- armes légères et des armes de petit sociale et de statut politique, tion des droits de l’homme, y com- médias pour un usage durable de res- nales, les partenaires de développe- calibre (2004), les recommanda- Conscients que la prolifération des pris la violence sexuelle basée sur le sources médiatiques éléctroniques ment et les agences onusiennes de tions éthiques et de sécurité de armes légères ou de petit calibre a genre, et imprimées, particulièrement les- la région, prenant part à la Consul- l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé exacerbé le problème de la violences 7. Les États membres veilleront radios, la presse écrite, la télévision tation Régionale de Haut Niveau sur pour la Recherche, la Documentation sexuelle et sexospécifique dans la ré- à ce que les militants des Droits de et les moyens communautaires/tra- l’Elimination de la Violence Sexuelle et l’Observation de la violence sex- gion, Déterminés à travailler avec et l’Homme et les ONG locales qui lut- ditionnels debase pour dénoncer les et la Lutte contre l’impunité dans uelle dans les situations d’urgence; à influer sur nos gouvernements et tent pour la promotion des droits de atrocités de la violence sexuelle, et la Région des Grands Lacs tenue à Convaincus que le Protocole de la organisations respectifs pour qu’ils la femme, y compris la lutte contre la faciliter la sensibilisation et la lutte Goma, République démocratique du CIRGL sur la Prévention et la Sup- contribuent à l’élimination de toutes SGBV, soient protégés et aptes à tra- contre la violence sexuelle et sexos- Congo (RDC), du 16 au 18 Juin 2008, pression de la Violence Sexuelle à les formes de violence basée sur le vailler en toute sécurité et créeront pécifique (VSS), Ayant écouté les témoignages sur l’encontre des Femmes et des Enfants genre, en particulier la violence sex- unenvironnement qui encourage leur 16. Les Etats membres élabor- le terrain des représentants des or- et le Projet de la CIRGL sur la Préven- uelle, et prennent des mesures ap- travail,8. Les Etats membres décen- eront et mettront en œuvre des pro- ganisations de la société civile chefs tion et la Lutte contre l’Exploitation propriées pour l’autonomisation et la traliseront les services au niveau des grammes de changement de com- traditionnels, des organisations de Sexuelle, les Abus et la Violence Ba- représentation équitable des femmes communautés de base pour les vic- portement et de réhabilitation des femmes, des chefs traditionnels et sée sur le Genre et l’Assistance aux et des enfants, times de violences sexuelles et sexos- détenus pour crime de violence sex- religieux, ainsi que les exposés des Victimes prévoient un cadre efficace Convaincus que les efforts de lu- pécifiques et leurs familles en sorte uelle en conformité avec les procé- représentants du Fonds des Nations et adéquat pour la prévention, la pro- tte contre la violence sexuelle et qu’elles puissent recevoir l’assistance dures pénales prévues pour les mi- Unies pour les Populations (FNUAP), tection, la poursuite et la punition sexospécifique impliquent un effort gratuite telle que l’assistance ju- neurs auteurs de crimes de VSS; du Fonds des Nations Unies pour des auteurs de violence sexuelle dans combiné des hommes, des femmes, ridique et médicale, y compris la pil- 17. Les Etats membres mettront la Femme (UNIFEM), du Bureau du la Région des Grands Lacs, des garçons et des filles ainsi que les ule du lendemain, l’assistance socio- sur pied un Comité pour la Protec- Haut Commissaire des Nations Unies Conscients des conditions qui institutions étatiques, psychologique pour surmonter le tion des Femmes, des Filles et des pour les Droits de l’Homme (OHCHR), engendrent la violence sexuelle et traumatisme et l’assistance en nour- Garçons contre la violence sexuelle la Conférence Internationale sur la l’impunité, telles que la persistance Recommandons ce qui suit : riture, en logement ainsi que les ARV pour veiller à la mise en œuvre du Région des Grands Lacs (CIRGL), le des guerres, l’insécurité, les pra- Au niveau national: et d’autres types d’assistance liés au Protocole de la CIRGL pour la Préven- Vice-Gouverneur de Goma (RDC) la tiques culturelles répréhensibles, la VIH/SIDA et aux maladies sexuelle- tion et la Suppression de la Violence Mission des Nations Unies pour le discrimination, la corruption et les 1. Les Etats membres devront al- ment transmissibles ; Sexuelle contre les Femmes et les Congo (MONUC) et le Vice-Comman- systèmes juridiques inadéquats dans louer des fonds du budget national 9. Les Etats membres veilleront à Enfants ; dant de la 8ème Région Militaire du la Région des Grands Lacs, Conscients à des projets liés à la prévention de ce que des kits médicaux spécifiques 18. Les Etats membres con- Nord Kivu, et au vu des documen- que le pourcentage des victimes de la la violence sexuelle et sexospécifique et suffisants soient disponibles dans stitueront un Fonds de Compensa- taires sur les histoires horribles de violence sexuelle s’accroît de manière et à l’assistance aux survivants et au tous les centres de santé, tion pour aider les victimes de vio- violence sexuelle et d’exploitation des inquiétante dans certains pays de la renforcement des institutions qui 10. Les Etats membres devront lences sexuelles et sexospécifiques et femmes, des filles et des garçons, Région des Grands Lacs, s’occupent des violences basées sur veiller à ce qu’ait lieu une forma- mettront en place une Commission Réaffirmant les dispositions des Profondément préoccupés par le genre ; tion spéciale pour tous les acteurs d’Indemnisation pour traiter les de- instruments régionaux et interna- la pandémie de la violences sex- 2. Les Etats membres renforce- en rapport avec les besoins spéci- mandes d’indemnisation relatives à tionaux des Droits de l’Homme qui uelle et sexospécifique (VSS) et les ront leurs systèmes judiciaires par fiques des mineurs, les victimes de la violence sexuelle ; protègent les femmes et les enfants, violations des Droits Fondamen- la formation des juges sur les pro- violence sexuelle, en matière de soins 19. Les Etats membres appli- tels que la Charte des Nations Unies taux des Femmes et des Enfants, et blèmes de violences sexuelles et médicaux, de gestion des trauma- queront et modifieront au besoin (1945), la Déclaration Universelle des l’impunité prévalant dans la Ré- sexospécifiques, la révision des lois tismes et d’assistance juridique, la législation pour se conformer Droits de l’Homme (1948), les résolu- gion des Grands Lacs pour les cas discriminatoires, l’allègement des 11. Les Etats membres organi- au Protocole de la CIRGL sur la tions 1325 (2000) et 1612 (2005) du ayant trait à la violence sexuelle procédures d’instruction, la disponi- seront la formation de la police, de Prévention et la Suppression de la Conseil de Sécurité, la Convention et àl’exploitation,Compte tenu de la bilisation de services juridiques gra- l’armée, de l’appareil judiciaire, du Violence Sexuelle contre les Femmes sur l’Elimination de toutes les Formes responsabilité qui incombe à l’État tuits aux victimes ainsi que la lutte personnel médical, et des travailleurs et les Enfants, de Discrimination à l’encontre des de protéger ses citoyens contre les contre la corruption et la banalisa- sociaux dans la gestion du trauma- 20. Les Etats membres mettront Femmes (1979), la Recommanda- violations des droits de l’homme, y tion des cas de violence sexuelle, tisme et la sensibilité face aux vic- en place des Bureaux Spéciaux sur tion Générale 19 sur laViolence à compris la violence sexuelle et sexos- 3. Les Etats membres veilleront times de violence sexuelle, les Questions du Genre (ou « Gender l’égard des Femmes, la Recomman- pécifique, à ce que, lors des procès portant sur 12. Les États membres devront Desks ») dans tous les établissements dation Générale 19 sur la Violence à Conscients du fait que la violence des cas de violence sexuelle et sexos- former des policiers, des magis- pénitentiaires, postes de police et l’encontre des Femmes, la Conven- sexuelle et sexospécifique représente pécifique, des garanties de poursuites trats et le personnel judiciaire sur camps militaires sous la responsabil- tion relative aux Droits de l’Enfant une menace pour la sécurité natio- pénales efficaces, de confidentialité, la collecte de preuves, y compris des ité d’officiers des deux sexes formés (1989), le Protocole visant à prévenir, nale et régionale, et un facteur de de procédures judiciaires à huis clos preuves médico-légales sur les cas de dans le traitement des questions réprimer et punir la traite des per- propagation du VIH/SIDA, et de protection des victimes et des violence sexuelle, de violences sexuelles et sexospéci- sonnes, en particulier des femmes Reconnaissant l’impact de la vio- témoins soient prises en compte, 13. Les États membres mettront fiques et des questions de sécurisa- et des enfants (2000), la Charte Af- lences sexuelle et sexospécifique sur 4. Les Etats membres renforce- en place un mécanisme de protection tion, de prévention et de poursuite ricaine des Droits de l’Homme et des le développement économique des ront les structures médicales afin pour les victimes et les témoins qui efficace de cas de VSS, Droits des Peuples (1981), la Charte pays de la Région des Grands Lacs, qu’elles délivrent plus facilement sont prêts à témoigner en justice con- 21. Les Etats membres devront Africaine sur les Droits de l’homme et Conscients du fait que la violence les certificats médicaux requis pour tre les auteurs présumés, intaurer des unités de protection de les Droits des Peuples (1981), le Pro- sexuelle et sexospécifique n’est pas l’audience des cas de SGBV dans un 14. Les Etats membres entrepren- l’enfance dans toutes les stations de tocole à la Charte Africaine sur les seulement liée à des situations de délai raisonnable, dront la sensibilisation soutenue du police et des camps militaires dans Droits de l’homme et les Droits des crise et de guerre, Conscients du fait 5. Les Etats membres appuieront public, en ciblant les femmes, les toutes les étapes de l’appareil judici- Peuples (2003) et la Charte Afric- que la VSS est non seulement com- les cliniques mobiles, juridiques et les filles et les garçons sur leurs droits aire, tant civils que militaires, aine sur les Droits et le Bien-Être des mise par des éléments armés, mais de centres de santé en vue de faciliter et responsabilités et sur les pro- 22. Les Etats membres devront the great 29 2017 region

systématiser la collecte des données femmes dans les programmes de ré- en matière pénale relativement à la et des politiques pour répondre aux Prévention et la Suppression de la pour renforcer la base de preuves sur insertion, violence sexuelle et sexospécifique; vulnérabilités des enfants nés du viol Violence Sexuelle contre les Femmes le nombre, la situation, et les expéri- 28. Les États membres veilleront à 35. Conformément à l’article et des femmes enceintes suite au viol et les Enfants et du Projet de la CIRGL ences des victimes de violences ce que toutes les filles et les femmes 6.8 du Protocole, les Etats Membres en donnant la possibilité à celles qui sur la Prévention et la Lutte contre sexuelles et sexospécifiques en enlevées et gardées comme épouses devront mettre en place un établisse- veulent garder la grossesse de béné- l’Exploitation Sexuelle, les Abus et la particulier des femmes, des filles ou esclaves sexuels soient libérées et ment régional dans le cadre du Fonds ficier de l’assistance maternelle et Violence Sexuelle et Sexospécifique et des jeunes garçonsainsi que réunies avec leurs familles, spécial pour la Reconstruction et le à celles qui ne le veulent pas d’être et l’Assistance aux Victimes. les mesures sociales, politiques, 29. Les Etats membres devront Développement pour prévenir la autorisées à interrompre leur gros- 45. L’Organisation des Nations économiques et légales qui sont en engager un soutien économique en violence sexuelles et sexospécifique sesse, Unies et les missions de maintien de place; faveur des survivants des violences et aider les survivants en particu- Au niveau international la paix devront aider les gouverne- 23. Les Etats membres ne sexuelles et sexospécifiques et lier dans le domaine de la forma- (Partenaires de Développe- ments à élaborer des mécanismes ju- devraient pas accorder l’amnistie, le d’autres survivants vulnérables ; tion, l’assistance juridique, les soins ment et Nations Unies) : ridiques, politiques et institutionnels pardon ou la liberté conditionnelle médicaux, la réhabilitation et la ré- 41. Apporter une aide financière et des ressources humaines afin aux auteurs de violences sexuelles et Au niveau régional: insertion des survivants de violence et technique aux Etats membres afin d’assurer la continuité dans la lutte sexospécifiques et la peine maximale 30. Assurer le suivi de manière à sexuelle y compris les auteurs de ces de renforcer les capacités de leurs contre la violence devrait être administrée en toutes accélérer le processus de stabilisa- crimes, réponses juridiques, judiciaires et sexuelle et sexospécifique, circonstances ; tion et de consolidation de la paix 36. Conformément à l’article 6.9 médicales en vue d’éliminer la vio- 46. Assurer le déploiement d’une 24. les États membres devront dans la Région des Grands Lacs, à du Protocole, les Etats Membres lence sexuelle et sexospécifique et force de maintien de la paix adéquate soutenir la mise en œuvre d’un pro- travers le désarmement, la démobil- devront mettre en place un centre mettre fin à l’impunité en conformité et l’exécution de son mandat de pro- gramme d’égalité entre les sexes isation et la réintégration de groupes régional spécial pour la formation avec le Protocole sur la Prévention tection, visant à transformer la relation armés illégaux dans la région, en et la sensibilisation des magistrats, et la Suppression de la Violence Sex- 47. Mettre en place des proces- entre les femmes et les hommes vertu des accords comme le Com- des unités de police, des travailleurs uelle à l’encontre des Femmes et des sus spécialisés adaptés à la VSS d’une manière durable et équitable, muniqué de Nairobi (2007) et l’Acte sociaux, des médecins et de tous ceux Enfants et d’autres instruments in- dans les systèmes judiciaires et au impliquant les chefs traditionnels et d’Engagement de Goma (2008), qui traitent des questions de vio- ternationaux et régionaux ; sein de mécanismes de justice tran- religieux, ainsi que des femmes lead- 31. Les Etats membres devront lences sexuelles et sexospécifiques; 42. Mobiliser l’appui interna- sitionnelle pour expédier la poursuite ers au niveau local ; saisir les Etats membres qui n’ont pas 37. Les États Membres faciliter- tional, politique et financier pour la d’auteurs présumés, 25. Les Etats membres devront encore ratifié le Pacte sur la Sécurité, ont les consultations de haut niveau mise en œuvre du Pacte sur la Sécu- 48. Appuyer la coordination, le inclure la prévention de la violence la Stabilité et le Développement dans sur la lutte contre la VSS entre les rité, la Stabilité et le Développement suivi et l’évaluation des réponses à la sexuelle et sexospécifique dans les la Région des Grands Lacs, pour qu’ils militaires et policiers haut gradés de dans la Région des Grands Lacs et le violence sexuelle et sexospécifique programmes des écoles et des au- le ratifient ; la Région des Grands Lacs, 38. Avec Protocole y afférent sur la Préven- aux niveaux national, régional et in- tres établissements d’enseignement 32. Les Etats membres devront l’aide des Nations Unies, les États tion et la Suppression de la Violence ternational pour permettre aux jeunes garçons domestiquer le Pacte sur la Préven- membres faciliteront des consulta- Sexuelle contre les Femmes et les 49. Soutenir le renforcement des et filles de se développer dans un en- tion et la Suppression de la Violence tions régionales sur la lutte contre la Enfants ; appareils judiciaires nationaux afin vironnement plus éclairé et sensible, Sexuelle contre les Femmes et les En- VSS pour les chefs traditionnels, reli- 43. Promouvoir l’harmonisation de s’assurer que tous les auteurs pré- 26. Les Etats membres devront fants en réformant les Codes Pénaux gieux et les femmes leaders, d’initiatives internationales sur la sumés de violences sexuelles sont mettre en place des mesures efficaces pour prévoir des punitions sévères 39. les États membres devront violence sexuelle et sexospécifique en traduits en justice et que les déci- pour mettre fin à la prolifération des pour les crimes liés à la violence sex- prendre des mesures pour arrêter la rapport avec les contextes nationaux sions judiciaires et afférentes sont armes légères et de petit calibre dans uelle et sexospécifique; traite et la prostitution et régionaux , exécutés. les pays de la région, 33. Les États membres devront des filles et des garçons dans la 44. Apporter des ressources fi- 50. Appuyer et former les forces 27. les États membres veilleront examiner les lois discriminatoires Région des Grands Lacs en abordant nancières et des capacités techniques de maintien de la paix pour régler le à ce que les processus de DDR facili- et les dispositions incompatibles spécifiquement les réseaux région- au Secrétariat de la Conférence Inter- problème de la VSS tent l’accès aux filles, garçons et des avec la mise en œuvre effective du aux transfrontaliers qui permettent nationale sur la Région des Grands femmes associés aux groupes armés Protocole, la traite de ces enfants ; Lacs (CIRGL) pour faciliter la coor- et des cas connexes. afin de promouvoir la responsabilité 34. Les Etats membres devront 40. les États membres mettront dination, la mise en œuvre, le suivi Fait à l’hôtel IHUSI, Goma,RDC, le 18 eu égard au sort des enfants et des s’impliquer et assurer la coopération en place des mécanismes législatifs et l’évaluation du Protocole sur la juin 2008

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