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Kalala

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2006-07-24
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2021-12-06
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  1. “Finally, I would be remiss if I did not mention another scourge that looms over the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I therefore join Special Representative Bintou Keita in condemning the increase in tribalism and hate speech. Regressive notions can only hamper the development of our country, with tribalism as its engine. We must therefore eliminate such ideologies in order to be able to all live together.”

    2021-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8918 (2021) · source

  2. “With regard to the withdrawal of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), that will depend on the degree to which Congolese women — through our national African Women Leaders Network — participate in the development of the Mission’s transition plan in the areas that affect them. We believe that we should not rush the Mission withdrawal. Instead, we must take into account all the factors I mentioned, as the security and humanitarian situation remain precarious. The activist campaign we see now throughout the country also shows the gravity and urgency of addressing violence against women, which could hinder their social and political participation and, as a result, delay the country’s development.”

    2021-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8918 (2021) · source

  3. “The figure represents the greatest number of internally displaced persons on the African continent.” Unfortunately, the weak judicial system makes it impossible to hold the perpetrators responsible for those numerous violations, or to compensate the victims. It is therefore necessary for the State to continue its efforts to protect its citizens. I also take this opportunity to express my support for the call of Dr. Mukwege and civil society with regard to the implementation of a transitional justice mechanism.”

    2021-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8918 (2021) · source

  4. “Nevertheless, as a former Minister for Human Rights and a female mediator, I cannot but be concerned about protecting women and human rights in my country. Despite, certain obvious changes, all reports point to the repeated violation of those rights. In that connection, in paragraph 21, the Secretary-General report issued on 1 December (S/2021/987) states: “Documented violations related to democratic space increased by 131 per cent owing to increased threats against members of civil society organizations and violations of the right to peaceful assembly.” In paragraph 24, the report states: “The number of internally displaced persons in the country surpassed 5.7 million, of whom 51 per cent were women ...”

    2021-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8918 (2021) · source

  5. “And all the while there is deafeaning silence among the major Powers as the vicious cycle continues involving the plunder of natural resources, with the complicity of transnational corporations, massacres and the proliferation of armed groups, with the ensuing phenomenon of child soldiers and the rape of women. As for the social situation, it has not improved much despite the efforts of President Tshilombo Tshisekedi, who has stated his determination to end corruption — a scourge that erodes the business environment and heightens the precarious living conditions of Congolese. Unfortunately, I cannot dwell on this issue due to time constraints. Numerous civil society reports bear that out.”

    2021-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8918 (2021) · source

  6. “The issue in connection with the appointment of the President of the Independent National Electoral Commission in October is one illustration of that. For while the President has indeed been appointed, the Commission must still be fully constituted given the lack of consensus with the opposition. It is therefore essential that all the stakeholders involved agree on the proper holding of the process so that it can be truly transparent, consensus-based and peaceful, as a measure of the country’s stability. Also as I reviewed my statement, I noted that instability in the east of the country also continues to be a scourge for the people today, who are displaced on a daily basis — when not horrifically killed — despite the efforts of the Government by way of the declaration of the state of siege.”

    2021-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8918 (2021) · source

  7. “It is once again a privilege for me to speak to the Security Council on the issue of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for which I thank the Council. I similarly briefed the Council in March 2017 (see S/PV.7903) at a delicate stage in our history as we were to organize presidential, legislative and senatorial elections. In reviewing my statement then, I am cognizant of the similarities in the two moments, given that the issue of elections is once again on the agenda, along with the ensuing difficulties — although that time we were able to overcome the obstacles and achieve a peaceful transition of power, to the great satisfaction of the international community. Nevertheless, the Democratic Republic of the Congo finds itself facing the same difficulties.”

    2021-12-06 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8918 (2021) · source

  8. “I think that it would not be too much to ask for the Council to consider that issue and to respond in a way that acknowledges the situation and provides care for those children - because those who ought to bring hope cannot instead bring despair. We wish to keep hope alive.”

    2017-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7903 (2017) · source

  9. “That is why, even as we welcome the renewal of MONUSCO's mandate, civil society calls upon the United Nations to reinforce it so as to enable the soldiers to play a more proactive and deterrent role. They must prevent incidents, not give in to them. Since opportunity makes the thief, I would like to raise the painful issue of children fathered by members of United Nations contingents and abandoned after they are conceived. How can those innocent children be compensated for that injustice? Many grow up penniless in Goma, Kisangani, Mbandaka or elsewhere? Many have joined the ranks of street children, which we call "schegues" or "kulunas".”

    2017-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7903 (2017) · source

  10. “The online circulation of those images have been met with total indifference on the part of the international community. "I am Beni" does not seem to garner as much attention as "I am Paris" or "I am Munich". The Congolese people are still traumatized by the memories ofattacks on villages located near MONUSCO camps, while the Mission did nothing to protect them. We are told that MONUSCO is a peacekeeping force that cannot impose peace. Go explain that to the poor citizens who see that the Mission has weapons and expect only its protection. I will perhaps be tactless in saying that this stance revolts both civil society and the population, which likens MONUSCO to a force that counts the dead.”

    2017-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7903 (2017) · source

  11. “It should be borne in mind that such actions would contribute to the rapid implementation of a purely Congolese solution to the crisis. I now turn to the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). Civil society welcomes the Mission's actions both in its social and peacekeeping efforts and in its support for the electoral process. The people remember the successful operations it carried out jointly with the Forces armees de la Republique democratique du Congo to fight various armed groups, including the M-23. However, people cannot explain the increase in killings in the east of the country, particularly in Beni, where not a week goes by without unimaginably cruel murders reported.”

    2017-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7903 (2017) · source

  12. “Unfortunately, three months later, the process seems to have stalled. The signing of the specific arrangements to define the manner of implementing the agreement is overdue. The political actors are unable to honour the commitments they made freely. Unfortunately, every delay takes us further away from the possibility of holding of presidential, legislative and provincial elections, set for December 2017. No electoral calendar has been published thus far, and the people are increasingly tense. That is why we believe it is urgent to collaborate with the African Union to further support CENCO'S mediation efforts to swiftly set up a Government and, above all, a national council to follow up the implementation of the agreement, an institution charged with ensuring proper preparations for the elections and compliance with the road map.”

    2017-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7903 (2017) · source

  13. “We should recall that of 32 participants in the meetings of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) only three were women - less than 10 per cent, the average in most of the country's institutions, when male-female parity is enshrined in our Constitution. In order to respond to this dysfunctional State, political dialogue has emerged as the only way out of the crisis, as Monseigneur Utembi, President of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo, so eloquently said just now. In the firm belief of the reality of this, and aware that our long-suffering peoples are no longer willing to accept the path of arms, civil society has engaged in political negotiations under the auspices of both the African Union and CENCO, whose comprehensive and inclusive political agreement was signed on 31 December 2016.”

    2017-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7903 (2017) · source

  14. “We can sum it up by saying that we have a failed State. Our citizens can no longer trust their institutions. Need I remind the Council that it is a well-known fact that it is women, the elderly and children who are the first victims in such situations? How many times in this Chamber have we talked about the sexual violence that has been done to women in my country or their and their children's dreadful living conditions on the streets or accused of witchcraft? I am not going to revisit that. But I must point to the weakness of a judicial system that, despite some efforts, has been unable to provide a genuine response to the demands of justice. What is there to say about women's low rate of participation in decision-making?”

    2017-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7903 (2017) · source

  15. “Since that time we have had to deal with the outbreak of new insurgent movements such as the Kamwina Nsapu militia in Kasai Central and Bundu dia Kongo in Kongo Central and the fighting between Twa and Bantu communities in Tanganyika. We are also witnessing the Mouvement du 23 mars (M- 23) reconstituted; a resurgence of petty criminality; a stagnant economic sector and its corollary, unemployment; galloping depreciation of the currency, which brings with it reduced purchasing power and makes life more precarious; corruption, human rights violations and restrictions on fundamental freedoms such as the right to peaceful protest - for example, young people being confronted as they demand a healthier environment - obstacles to people's access to basic social needs; the deterioration of infrastructure and so on and so forth.”

    2017-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7903 (2017) · source

  16. “And here I am again today, against all expectations, with another opportunity to address the Security Council on the subject of the sociopolitical situation in my beloved country, for which I am honoured and very grateful. While at that time the future looked bright, today we are compelled to admit that our efforts to achieve national cohesion have been crushed and that the issue of child soldiers is once again on the agenda. Since the presidential election of 2011, and in the wake of the failure to hold the elections that were supposed to bring the transfer of power in 2016, we are in the grip of a profound crisis, linked to the legitimacy of our institutions.”

    2017-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7903 (2017) · source

  17. “Fate often has surprises in store for us. Almost 11 years ago, I was here in this Chamber to discuss the problem of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how to end it (see S/PV.5494). I remember that we were pleased to see that there had been progress on the problem, but we noted that it had yet to be eliminated among the armed groups that were still active in the eastern part of the country. At the time I was Minister for Human Rights on behalf of civil society in the transitional Government. To be exact, it was July 2006, on the eve of our country's first free, credible and transparent elections, which we were all eagerly looking forward to.”

    2017-03-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7903 (2017) · source

  18. “It thanks the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Bretton Woods system and UNDP for their active involvement in the Government's efforts in the process of the demobilization of child soldiers. Lastly, in these difficult times, allow me to recall that many children are living in situations in which there has been a breach of international peace and security. I am thinking in particular about the children of the Palestinian Authority, of the State of Israel and of Lebanon. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is fully confident that the Council will soon find a solution to the tragedy that is taking place in the Holy Land.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494 (2006) · source

  19. “With respect to the themes of this debate, within the framework of the implementation of Security Council resolution 1379 (2001), my delegation, which intends to provide all its cooperation to the monitoring and reporting mechanism that has been set up in implementation of 1612 (2005), believes that the mechanism of "naming and shaming" should also cover all parties to a conflict who recruit and use child soldiers, regardless of whether that situation is on the Council's agenda or not. I would be remiss if I were to conclude my statement without expressing my gratitude to the international community, which has unceasingly supported the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the programme's implementation. My Government welcomes the cooperation of the UNICEF office in Kinshasa and commends its great interest in the protection of children.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494 (2006) · source

  20. “From this standpoint, with respect to the shortfall of resources allocated for care of children, I must point out that the overall financing for the National Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Programme is approximately $200 million, out of which only $5 million were allocated for children associated with armed forces and groups. To date, 14,000 children still need to be removed from armed groups and forces, while the moneys allocated for this have already been totally spent. It is also necessary to continue implementation of the Programme with additional substantial support being provided to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494 (2006) · source

  21. “However, I do need to note that the implementation of the NDDRP has met a number of considerable constraints, particularly with respect to difficulties related to, on the one hand, locating the children's families in order to reunify them, and, on the other hand, monitoring the situation of all child soldiers who have been reunited and are being provided reintegration support. Other constraints are related to the shortfalls in funds allocated for their care and in the ongoing hotspots of tensions in certain parts of the country. Strengthening the fight against the phenomenon of child soldiers in my country requires that solutions that are consonant with the constraints that I mentioned be rapidly found.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494 (2006) · source

  22. “It is implemented through a structure that has been called the National Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Commission, whose acronym is CONADER. The implementation of the NDDRP has produced encouraging results. Indeed, out of an estimated total of 33,000 children associated with armed groups and forces, 19,054, including 2,881 girls, have been removed and placed in transitional support structures that provide psychosocial care to help them make the transition from military life to civilian life, with a view to their social and economic reintegration. As of 30 June 2006, of the 19,054 child soldiers who had already been removed from their armed groups and forces, 12,471 had been reunited with their families. Of these 12,471 reunited children, 9,717 are back in school while some 6,312 are being reintegrated into the economy.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494 (2006) · source

  23. “That forum provided new impetus to the perception of the phenomenon of child soldiers in my country, and its recommendations led to Law Decree number 066 of 9 June 2000, which had to do with the demobilization and reintegration of vulnerable groups within combatant forces. In May 2004, continuing the process under way, the Government developed the National Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Programme (NDDRP), with the assistance of a number of partners, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This programme was financed by the World Bank and the Multi-Country Demobilization and Reintegration Programme. It deals with the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of all combatants who are not eligible to serve in the new restructured and integrated army, including child soldiers.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494 (2006) · source

  24. “Lastly, I would point out that all of this legislative progress has been supported by a vast outreach and awareness-raising campaign, by both the Government and non-governmental human rights organizations. This campaign, which is still under way, targets officials entrusted with the implementation of these laws, as well as parents and children. The Government has spared no effort with respect to protecting children who are recruited in violation of the legal provisions that are in effect. In 1999, despite a state of war, the Government organized in Kinshasa an important forum on the demobilization of child soldiers, which was attended by experts from a number of countries of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494 (2006) · source

  25. “But as is known, considerable progress has been made by the Government in the fight against the use of children in armed conflicts, both in terms of prevention and in terms of protection. With respect to the prevention efforts, I should point out that the Democratic Republic of the Congo has ratified and implemented many international and regional legal instruments relating to protecting children. Today one should acknowledge that since 1999 the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been ranked third among African countries that have a national plan of action in this area, in accordance with the provisions of the resolution of the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in 1993.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494 (2006) · source

  26. “My delegation welcomes the Security Council's growing interest with respect to the tragic situation of child soldiers. It supports the coalition that is intended to put an end to the use of child soldiers, the Working Group and the monitoring and reporting mechanism whose aim is to protect children who are affected by armed conflicts. The latest report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (S/2006/389) objectively describes the situation that has prevailed in my country in recent years. Still, one needs to point out that the violations highlighted in this report are mainly perpetrated by elements of armed groups still active in certain parts of the country, particularly in Ituri and the North and South Kivus.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494 (2006) · source

  27. “Ms. Kalala (Democratic Republic of the Congo) (spoke in French): Mr. President, let me begin my statement by telling you how pleased my delegation is to see you presiding over the Security Council during this month of July 2006, and to express the sense of honour that I have in taking part in this important debate, which I predict will be successful. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the essential nature of the report of the activities of the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflicts (see S/2006/497, annex), which you, Mr. President, have the honour to direct, and to thank Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, and Ms. Ann Veneman, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), for their important statements.”

    2006-07-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5494 (2006) · source