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New York – In northeast Nigeria, fourteen years of violence by the insurgency group Boko Haram has left a painful and lasting mark on the childhoods, safety and education of countless girls and women, with schools and family homes being regularly targeted by attacks and mass kidnappings. To support the learning and wellbeing of survivors of […]

Update: As of the 1st of March 2024, Dr. Mukwege has resumed his role as Chair of the Board of the Global Survivors Fund. With that, Norbert Wühler has resumed his role as Vice Chair. 03 October 2023: Dr Denis Mukwege has resigned from his function as Chair of the Board of the Global Survivors Fund (GSF) […]

Yesterday, a centre made for and by survivors of sexual violence committed during the 28 September stadium massacre opened its doors in Maferinyah. The inauguration of the centre, hosted by L’Association des Victimes, Parents et Amis du 28 Septembre 2009 (AVIPA), L’Organisation Guinéenne de Défense des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen (OGDH), and Global […]

New York – The lack of sustainable funding to finance State-led reparation programmes should no longer be an obstacle to fulfilling the right to a remedy and reparation for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, argued civil society organisations, survivor activists, government and United Nations representatives and international lawyers today.  At a high-level side event to the 78th UN […]

Geneva/Gaziantep – As the Syrian regime and other armed groups involved in the Syrian conflict in the last twelve years are unlikely to recognise their responsibility for committing gross human rights violations – including torture and conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) – survivors of these crimes are asking the international community to step up and provide interim […]

At the end of April GSF, together with the Ukrainian NGO JURFEM, hosted a much anticipated and hopeful Study Visit in Geneva. A high-level delegation of survivors, government representatives, and civil society organisations all came together with one overarching focus: urgent interim reparation for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in Ukraine. The study visit had […]

Earlier this year, we had the chance to travel to Guatemala where we participated in a retreat for women survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) and genocide with our partner Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos (CALDH). We joined the survivors and echoed their calls for justice during the National Day for the […]

Geneva, 13 April 2023 – Following the recent imposition for Yazidi Survivors to file a judicial complaint to become eligible for the national administrative programme on reparations, NGOs and experts warn that this practice could undermine the ground-breaking survivors law adopted in Iraq in March 2021. In a statement on the implementation of the Yazidi Survivors […]

Having visited our project team in Bangui in October, I have yet to find words to describe the trip, and the extraordinary people I met in the Central African Republic’s capital. One of the visit’s purposes was to meet with the survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) we work with, to discuss perspectives on the Personal Data […]

It has been six years since I last visited Borno State in northern Nigeria, when I was still a doctoral candidate researching the management of those displaced by Boko Harem’s campaign of religious extremism and mass violence for my thesis. Yet, despite being born and bred myself in northern Nigeria, nothing prepared me for the […]