STORY: AMISOM shines the spotlight on Sexual and

Gender-based Violence in Somalia

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DATELINE: 21-23/JUNE/2018, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, AMISOM officers present during the sexual and gender-based
violence (SGBV) workshop
2. Med shot, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
3. Close up, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
4. Wide shot, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
5. Med shot, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
6. Wide shot, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Maxwell Chikunguru, AMISOM Police Reforms,
Restructuring and Development Coordinator.
“You have received this course as gender focal persons so that you will stand up
tall as AMISOM ambassadors in seeing that gender is effectively and efficiently
mainstreamed in all government structures and systems in Somalia.”

8. Close up, an AMISOM officer present during the SGBV workshop

9. Wide shot, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
10. Med shot, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Inspector Rachel Malambo, AMISOM Police Gender
Coordinator.
“In the conflict countries, these SGBVs are used as weapons of war. They
(criminals) take advantage of women. We’re not saying women and girls are the
only victims, even men are victims but here in Mogadishu, if you follow SGBV,
you go into the Penal Code, you find that defilement cases are there when you’re
mentoring them, sensitizing them. That’s why we want to develop these
sensitization materials so that we mentor, we advise them, we train them to
know that it’s an offence to allow a child of 12 years to go into marriage. There
are many effects and impacts which come out of SGBV.”

12. Med shot, an AMISOM official expounds on some of the issues during the
workshop
13. Med shot, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ahmadou Kanneh, AMISOM Police officer.
 “We usually advise SPF (Somali Police Force) that there are certain cases which
are very serious like SGBV, those are cases of human rights violations. So we tell
them that when such cases come to you do not compromise them. Even the
elderly people, clan people, the heads of clans come that this is an inter clan
issue let us solve it. We usually tell them not to agree.”

15. Wide shot, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
16. Med shot, high ranking AMISOM officials present during the SGBV workshop
17. Close up, Leon Ngulube, AMISOM Assistant Commissioner of Police
18. Wide shot, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
19. Med shot, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
20. Close up, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
21. Wide shot, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
22. Med shot, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
23. Close up, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Maxwell Chikunguru, AMISOM Police Reforms,
Restructuring and Development Coordinator.
“Another important role for you as focal persons is not to sit on this knowledge,
you have gained today but to impart this knowledge to the Somali counterparts
so that they will be able to handle gender issues when AMISOM exits.”

25. Med shot, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
26. Close up, AMISOM officers present during the SGBV workshop
27. Wide shot, Maxwell Chikunguru, AMISOM Police Reforms, Restructuring and
Development Coordinator awards a participant with a certificate
28. Med shot, Maxwell Chikunguru, AMISOM Police Reforms, Restructuring and
Development Coordinator awards a participant with a certificate
29. Close up, Maxwell Chikunguru, AMISOM Police Reforms, Restructuring and
Development Coordinator awards a participant with a certificate

AMISOM shines the spotlight on Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Somalia

Mogadishu, 24 June 2018 - African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is taking

concrete steps to tackle Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Somalia.

The Mission’s gender unit plans to train additional Somali police officers to help fight
increased cases of sexual violence against women.

The Reforms, Restructuring and Development Coordinator with AMISOM Mr.

Maxwell Chikunguru, said the Mission is also encouraging gender mainstreaming in
all government structures.

“Stand up tall as AMISOM ambassadors in seeing that gender is effectively and

efficiently mainstreamed in all government structures and systems in Somalia,” said
Chikunguru, who addressed a group of gender officers at the close of a three-day
workshop on sexual and gender based violence, held in Mogadishu, to review the
SGBV response framework.

The workshop discussed the Sexual Offences Bill, and AMISOM’s role in eliminating
SGBV.

“In the conflict countries, SGBV is used as a weapon of war. They (criminals) take
advantage of women,” said Inspector Rachel Malambo, AMISOM Police Gender
Coordinator, who noted
that defilement cases were still rampant in Somalia, because the country was
recovering from conflict.

A participant Ahmadou Kanneh, a police officer from Sierra Leone who is based in
Baidoa, the administrative capital of South West State, explained how they
encourage their Somali counterparts to refer SGBV cases to the legal courts, instead
of using the traditional justice system, which passes lenient sentences on sexual
offenders.

“We usually advise SPF that there are certain cases which are very serious like SGBV;
those are cases of human rights violations. We tell them that when such cases come
to them, they should not compromise them,” Kanneh said.

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