Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09NDJAMENA258
2009-06-26 15:15:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Ndjamena
Cable title:
CHADIAN OFFICIALS PROMISE COORDINATION ON G/TIP
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UNCLAS NDJAMENA 000258
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR AF/C, S/USSES, G/TIP AND DRL
NSC FOR HUDSON
LONDON FOR POL - LORD
PARIS FOR POL - KANEDA
ADDIS ABABA ALSO FOR AU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PHUM ELA KCRM KWMN KOCI CD
SUBJECT: CHADIAN OFFICIALS PROMISE COORDINATION ON G/TIP
ACTION PLAN, CURBING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
REF: A. STATE 65389
B. STATE 64939
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SUMMARY
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UNCLAS NDJAMENA 000258
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR AF/C, S/USSES, G/TIP AND DRL
NSC FOR HUDSON
LONDON FOR POL - LORD
PARIS FOR POL - KANEDA
ADDIS ABABA ALSO FOR AU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PHUM ELA KCRM KWMN KOCI CD
SUBJECT: CHADIAN OFFICIALS PROMISE COORDINATION ON G/TIP
ACTION PLAN, CURBING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
REF: A. STATE 65389
B. STATE 64939
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SUMMARY
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1. (SBU) Charge d'affaires delivered G/TIP Tier III Action
Plan (Ref A) and elements of the USG's initiative to curb
gender-based violence (Ref B) to Chadian officials at the
MFA, and to the Minister of Human Rights, on June 26. At
both ministries, our Chadian colleagues promised full
cooperation, including via meetings with the USG in July or
early August to report progress and provide formal answers to
questions. End Summary.
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G/TIP ACTION PLAN
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2. (SBU) Deputy Director General of the MFA Sadlassid Ali
Natchou made clear that Chad wanted to use the window of
opportunity offered by the USG's G/TIP Action Plan to form an
inter-ministerial committee able to undertake the initiatives
recommended by the USG. Minister of Human Rights Djasnabaye
Abderamane said that he would dispatch labor inspectors to
Armee Nationale Tchadienne (ANT) bases the week of June 30 to
identify and remove individuals younger than 18, and that the
inspectors would either invite UNICEF personnel to accompany
them or would share findings with UNICEF and allow the
organization to conduct inspections of its own. Both Natchou
and Abderamane indicated that Chad was already attempting to
develop a national work plan including additional activities
to address the problem of child soldiers. Natchou said that
the GoC would be in touch with the Embassy as specific
actions were accomplished, and in any event by August 1, to
present a list of what it had done to meet the specifications
in the Action Plan.
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CURBING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE INITIATIVE
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3. (SBU) The MFA's Natchou responded to our questions on
Chad's efforts to address gender-based violence by pointing
out that the practice should not exist in democratic
societies, and to the extent that it existed in Chad, the GoC
was committed to "removing the possibility of resorting to
these sorts of actions from the minds of perpetrators."
Human Rights Minister Abderamane pointed out that MINURCAT's
locally-recruited police force, the Detachement Integree de
Securite (DIS, charged with ensuring safety in refugee camps)
had a specific mandate to curb violence against women.
Female DIS officers had had considerable success in gaining
the trust of women refugees who were victims of violence,
which suggested that Chad could make inroads into the problem
my placing more women in its own local police forces. The
GoC wanted to improve its human rights record and make the
progress that it was achieving "more understood and
respected" internationally, said Abderamane. Answering the
USG's questions (in Ref B) would afford an opportunity, he
added, promising to coordinate with other ministries in the
aim of providing comments to the Embassy in the coming weeks.
BREMNER
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
STATE FOR AF/C, S/USSES, G/TIP AND DRL
NSC FOR HUDSON
LONDON FOR POL - LORD
PARIS FOR POL - KANEDA
ADDIS ABABA ALSO FOR AU
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PHUM ELA KCRM KWMN KOCI CD
SUBJECT: CHADIAN OFFICIALS PROMISE COORDINATION ON G/TIP
ACTION PLAN, CURBING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
REF: A. STATE 65389
B. STATE 64939
--------------
SUMMARY
--------------
1. (SBU) Charge d'affaires delivered G/TIP Tier III Action
Plan (Ref A) and elements of the USG's initiative to curb
gender-based violence (Ref B) to Chadian officials at the
MFA, and to the Minister of Human Rights, on June 26. At
both ministries, our Chadian colleagues promised full
cooperation, including via meetings with the USG in July or
early August to report progress and provide formal answers to
questions. End Summary.
--------------
G/TIP ACTION PLAN
--------------
2. (SBU) Deputy Director General of the MFA Sadlassid Ali
Natchou made clear that Chad wanted to use the window of
opportunity offered by the USG's G/TIP Action Plan to form an
inter-ministerial committee able to undertake the initiatives
recommended by the USG. Minister of Human Rights Djasnabaye
Abderamane said that he would dispatch labor inspectors to
Armee Nationale Tchadienne (ANT) bases the week of June 30 to
identify and remove individuals younger than 18, and that the
inspectors would either invite UNICEF personnel to accompany
them or would share findings with UNICEF and allow the
organization to conduct inspections of its own. Both Natchou
and Abderamane indicated that Chad was already attempting to
develop a national work plan including additional activities
to address the problem of child soldiers. Natchou said that
the GoC would be in touch with the Embassy as specific
actions were accomplished, and in any event by August 1, to
present a list of what it had done to meet the specifications
in the Action Plan.
--------------
CURBING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE INITIATIVE
--------------
3. (SBU) The MFA's Natchou responded to our questions on
Chad's efforts to address gender-based violence by pointing
out that the practice should not exist in democratic
societies, and to the extent that it existed in Chad, the GoC
was committed to "removing the possibility of resorting to
these sorts of actions from the minds of perpetrators."
Human Rights Minister Abderamane pointed out that MINURCAT's
locally-recruited police force, the Detachement Integree de
Securite (DIS, charged with ensuring safety in refugee camps)
had a specific mandate to curb violence against women.
Female DIS officers had had considerable success in gaining
the trust of women refugees who were victims of violence,
which suggested that Chad could make inroads into the problem
my placing more women in its own local police forces. The
GoC wanted to improve its human rights record and make the
progress that it was achieving "more understood and
respected" internationally, said Abderamane. Answering the
USG's questions (in Ref B) would afford an opportunity, he
added, promising to coordinate with other ministries in the
aim of providing comments to the Embassy in the coming weeks.
BREMNER