STORY: AU Mission in Somalia launches 16 Days of

Activism Against Gender Based Violence

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DATELINE: 25/NOV/2017, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, AMISOM officers present during the function

2. Med shot, AMISOM officers present during the function
3. Close up, an AMISOM officer present during the function
4. Wide shot, AMISOM officers present during the function
5. Med shot, Christine Alalo, AMISOM Deputy Police Commissioner and Gloria Jaase
Mkundanyirazo, AMISOM Women Protection Officer
6. Close up, Colonel Michael Kibuye, AMISOM Ugandan Contingent Chief
Administrative Officer
7. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) CHRISTINE ALALO, AMISOM DEPUTY POLICE
COMMISSIONER.
This year, like every other year, we take stock of the progress we have made in
Somalia, to end violence against women and girls. The overall theme Leave No
One Behind: End Violence against Women and Girls, correlates to AMISOMs
role as a peace support operation, in which we support the FGS and FMS to
provide a secure environment where children feel safe to go to school; where
civilians can thrive and go about their daily activities unhindered; where
communities appreciate the civil liberties that come with the presence of peace
and security.

8. Wide shot, AMISOM officers present during the function

9. Med shot, AMISOM officers present during the function
10. Close up, AMISOM officers present during the function
11. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) CHRISTINE ALALO, AMISOM DEPUTY POLICE
COMMISSIONER.
We talk about gender based violence, we educate people about gender-based
violence so that we address these issues. When we keep quiet and dont talk
about it, then we are also perpetrators of gender-based violence. So these
activities that we do are another way that we talk about and encourage people
to talk about it and show the world that it is very wrong.

12. Wide shot, AMISOM officers present during the function

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14. Close up, Stella Maranga, AMISOM Gender Officer
15. Wide shot, AMISOM officers entertain guests during the function
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17. Med up, AMISOM officers entertain guests during the function
18. Close up, an AMISOM officer entertains guests during the function
19. Wide shot, AMISOM officers entertain guests during the function
20. Close up, AMISOM officers present during the function
21. Wide shot, AMISOM officers entertain guests during the function
22. Med shot, AMISOM officers entertain guests during the function
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24. Close up, AMISOM officers entertain guests during the function
25. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) CHIEF INSPECTOR OF POLICE MAVIS KABILA, AMISOM
POLICE.
This is any violence that is perpetrated on individuals on the basis of their
gender and sex. It is violence that steps on the rights of women and children and
they cannot fully contribute to the welfare of the nation.

26. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH) INSPECTOR AISHA IBRAHIM, NIGERIAN FORMED POLICE

UNIT.
Gender based violence involves the male and female, mostly the victims are the
women. As a Nigerian FPU in this place, we are here to create awareness among
the locals and the community to know what gender-based violence is; in order
for women to know their rights. When you know your rights, you stand on your
feet and you stand by your rights and you speak out and you are bold.

STORY

AU Mission in Somalia launches 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based

Violence

Mogadishu, 25 November 2017 - The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)

today launched the 16 Days Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign,
aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls in Somalia.
The campaign, launched by the AU Mission simultaneously in Somalias regional
capitals, is part of a global campaign to create awareness about some of the most
widespread human rights violations.

The global theme of the campaign this year is Leave No One Behind - End Violence
Against Women And Girls.

The overall theme correlates to AMISOMs role as a peace support operation, in

which we support the Federal Government of Somalia and Federal Member States to
provide a secure environment where children feel safe to go to school; where
civilians can thrive and go about their daily activities unhindered; where
communities appreciate the civil liberties that come with the presence of peace and
security, said Ms. Christine Alalo, AMISOM Deputy Police Commissioner, during the
launch of the campaign, in Mogadishu.

Ms. Alalo urged victims of gender-based violence to speak out and break the silence
on these violations.

When we keep quiet and dont talk about it, then we are also perpetrators of
gender-based violence, Ms. Alalo remarked.

AMISOM is committed to ending violence against women and girls, considered as

the most extreme form of discrimination; and subscribes to the ideals enshrined in
the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of
Women in Africa; the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child; the AU
Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in
Africa; the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa and Declaration 229
(X11) adopted by the AU proclaiming 2010-2020 as the African Womens Decade, as
well as other international conventions on human rights.

According to a 2016 UN report based on data from 87 countries, 19 percent of

women aged between 15 and 49 years, have experienced physical and/or sexual
violence.

According to the report, harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, which is
still widely practised in Somalia, and is considered an extreme case of violence
against women, has declined by 24 per cent worldwide, although prevalence
remains high in at least 30 countries.

Research shows that achieving gender equality helps in preventing conflict, and high
rates of violence against women.

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