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Mustafa* was born and raised in Bor, a South Sudanese town scarred by conflict. A father of two children, he knew no other survivors in his area when GSF began an interim reparative measures project with local partners in 2024. What followed, he said, would change his life completely. For years, he had carried the weight of […]

To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, the Mukwege Foundation and the Global Survivors Fund (GSF) co-hosted the first-ever Asian Regional Survivors Exchange in Bangkok on 19 June. The event brought together survivors of conflict-related sexual violence from four countries across Asia, along with partners and allies.  Over two days, survivors […]

We sat down with Ruth Quinn, GSF’s Senior Advocacy and Policy Officer on Reparation Financing, to learn more about her work and the key misconceptions  surrounding funding programmes for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Why is the Global Survivor’s Fund focusing on the financing of reparations? […]

With the launch of our 2024 Annual Report, GSF reflects on a year of growth and accomplishments, from advancing pioneering legislation for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine to the end of our first three interim reparative measurements projects. The success of our pilot in Ukraine – delivering urgent financial compensation to survivors across […]

Following the launch of our impact report from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Karine Bonneau, GSF’s Head of Projects for Interim Reparative Measures, reflects on the lessons learnt from the project and how it has shaped our work.  The full report can be accessed here.   As the second of three pilots, the project […]

In 2022, the Global Survivors Fund (GSF) and partners began scoping for opportunities for reparations in Cote D’Ivoire. In this blog, lead country consultant Joanna Rice explains our ensuing pilot project, and how community-based initiatives can pave a way for future reparation programmes. The pilot – extended through 2025 – is carried out with our partner […]

In 2022, GSF partnered with the Association of Detainees and Missing of Sednaya Prison (ADMSP) and the Centre for Victims of Torture (CVT), working with Syrian survivors of detention now living in Türkiye. As the project came to an end in December 2024 and with the fall of the Assad regime happening the same month, ADMSP […]

Flagship project provides trauma-informed learning for children in Borno state. When Boko Haram overran northeast Nigeria in the summer of 2014, insurgents systematically targeted the education system, attacking schools and kidnapping hundreds of pupils. Now schools are being used as a venue for healing for children affected by conflict-related sexual violence.  But what does this look like?  Education […]

Five decades of terror, torture, arbitrary detentions and the killing of hundreds of thousands of Syrians ended with the toppling of the Assad regime earlier this week, leaving an entire country deeply wounded and survivors of torture with the immense task of rebuilding their lives.  The scale, horror and duration of the crimes perpetrated by […]

Kyiv, Geneva, November 20, 2024 – The adoption of the Law on Legal and Social Protection of the Rights of Survivors of Sexual Violence Related to the Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and provision of Urgent Interim Reparations to Them (Law 4067-IX) by the Ukrainian parliament recognises survivors of conflict-related sexual violence as victims and ensures […]