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notification costs. She claimed that the notification was sent to the Governor's Secretariat, but not to
Sergeant Chance.
5. The Complainant submits that on 28 July 2014, the Office of the Governor of North Kivu Province
acknowledged receipt of a letter that her lawyer, Eugene Lurhondere Buzake, sent on 14 July 2014,
copied to the Minister of Justice and Human Rights in Kinshasa and to REDRESS.She indicates that the
letter requests the Office of the Governor of North Kivu Province to fulfil the obligation of the
Respondent State to pay the compensation awarded by the OMT to the Complainant.
6. The Complainant alleges that to date, neither she nor her legal representatives have received any
response from the Office of the Governor of North Kivu Province or the Ministry of Justice and Human
Rights.
7. The Complainant claims that the stolen radio was returned to her during the proceedings. However, to
date, she has not received either the $120 stolen or the $10,000compensation payment awarded by the
court.
8. The Complainant argues that the obstacles described above are not specific to her case, but are part of a
general inability of the Respondent State to pay reparations ordered by the Court. She claims, for
example, that until March 2011, none of the 31 women raped by FARDC soldiers in Mbandaka and 29
women raped by rebels in Songo Mboyo, Equateur Province, had received any payment of courtordered compensation.
9. The Complainant asserts that the procedure for enforcing a court decision is very costly, time-consuming
and energy-consuming, and does not allow for the seizure of government property, leaving victims to
voluntarily enforce the compensation ordered by the court.
Articles alleged to have been violated
o. The Complainant alleges that the facts described above constitute a violation of Articles I, 2, 5, 7, 14 and
18 (3) of the African Charter, and Articles 2, 4, 8, 11 and 25 of the Protocol to the African Charter on the
Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol).
Prayers
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