(25 Mar 2013) SHOTLIST
1. United Nations High Commission for Refugees Special Envoy and actress Angelina Jolie at camp for Internally Displaced People (IDPs), pan to Jolie shaking hands, British Foreign Secretary William Hague behind
2. Jolie and Hague walking through camp, pan to IPDs
3. Mid of children at the camp
4. Various of aid worker talking to Jolie and Hague
5. Women entering camp hut
6. Mid shot of Jolie and Hague inside hut
7. Mid of women
8. SOUNDBITE (English) William Hague, British Foreign Secretary:
"Sexual violence in conflict has to be resolved if conflicts are going to be resolved because of course when rape is used as a weapon of war, it makes communities harder to bring together and much harder for people to get on with their lives afterwards. So this needs to be built into our response, to our humanitarian response, and it has to be built into the work of governments with big development programmes like ours, built into the work of the United Nations security council. So it's a huge agenda and that's what we are pursuing and we are drawing attention to."
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Angelina Jolie, United Nations High Commission for Refugees Special Envoy:
(Question: If you look at how huge it is, I mean this camp, ten thousand people here, you can see the scale of it, how daunted are you by that?)
"Well, it's always daunting to see a mass of displaced people but it's also very..., you know they're a resilient, extraordinary group of people. The Congo is... it's often we speak about the dramas and the pain and the horrors of the Congo but it's also a wonderful place with extraordinary people. I think the big message is it's not, you know this initiative started by the foreign secretary is an extraordinary thing but what we're saying and what we're here to do is try to scale it up and make this a world wide focus and it's due time, it's been going on every war, every crisis and it's often an afterthought and it's due time to end this and put an end to impunity and they deserve it."
10. Wide of tents
STORYLINE
Angelina Jolie is meeting with women and girls in eastern Congo, where sexual violence is rampant.
Jolie, a special envoy for the UN refugee agency, travelled to the Nzulo camp near Goma on Monday along with British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
According to the British foreign office, the visit to the Nzolo IDP camp north of Goma, was intended to highlight the use of rape in conflict zones, and to raise awareness of the issue on an international level.
"What we're here to do is try to scale it up and make this a world wide focus and it's due time, it's been going on every war, every crisis and it's often an afterthought and it's due time to end this and put an end to impunity and they deserve it," Jolie said.
Hague said that he planned to raise the problem at the annual G8 meeting of foreign ministers in London in April.
"Sexual violence in conflict has to be resolved if conflicts are to be resolved because when rape is used as a weapon of war, it makes communities harder, to bring together and much harder for people to get on with their lives afterwards," Hague said.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) says it's provided care to more than 2,500 women and girls who have been raped or abused over the last year alone.
The IRC is handing out kits with flashlights and whistles, as well as cleaning products so that women can avoid bathing at creeks where the risk of assault is higher.
Sexual violence is frequently used as a weapon of war by rebel groups that operate in eastern Congo, as well as by Congolese soldiers.
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