We shouldn't say that there hasn't been any progress or change, particularly with regard to impunity. We wouldn't have seen that five years ago; it wasn't possible for a military member to be treated, to be charged with rape. In some areas even today, a military member will never be charged with rape, and that's the way it is.
However, we've seen generals, or at least commanders, being tried, and that has been the strategy of the international community and of the observation mission. It hasn't been successful. We now have junior officers, but nevertheless people in authority. There are now more and more of them, and those cases are well documented. When I say a lot, I mean four, five or six.
At the local level—we could talk about that—it is enormously difficult for a woman to have access to justice. We note that increasing numbers of cases are being heard in the cities, but there has been a very small rise in the number of convictions, for a number of reasons. Not only is it hard for the justice system to deal with these issues, but the victims do not yet have or control any way of adducing evidence.
There is another example: it can cost somewhere between $700 and $800 per case to conduct a trial from start to finish, and that can take a year or a year and a half. Those are exorbitant amounts for people who live on $1 a day. Furthermore, a number of these women go to court without the assistance of lawyers. The other party often has lawyers who will easily counter the charges. Problems in this area remain to be solved. Furthermore, as I mentioned, large areas of Congo have no judges or police services, as a result of which access to justice in those areas is still impossible.