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I recently came back from the Central African Republic, where I attended the closing ceremony of our project there. Over the past two years we worked alongside survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in the town of Dékoa to provide interim reparative measures, co-designed to reaffirm dignity, stability, and hope while longer-term justice processes continue. I was incredibly moved by how much has changed since my first visit in 2021. It […]

In the Colombian city of Apartadó, more than 70 survivors of conflict-related sexual violence joined a sit-in in December organised by the Mujeres del Plantón, a women’s network that brings together survivors from across the Urabá region.   Dressed in orange to coincide with the 16 Days of Activism, the women sat together with placards bearing messages of support to one another: “No one is […]

Our first interim reparative measures project took place in Guinea from 2019 to 2023, where we worked with 158 survivors of conflict-related sexual violence committed at the Conakry’s 28 September Stadium in 2009. 

This article, by GSF’s Nepal Coordinator Sikha Bhattarai, originally appeared in Republica. Over the past several years, I have worked closely with survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Nepal. Through my conversations and project activities with both men and women, I have had the opportunity to listen to survivors and observe how the impact of […]

Cristian Correa, head of GSF’s Reparation Praxis Hub, recently travelled to Syria to support discussions relating to a future reparations policy. Here he reflects on discussions with survivors on what this should look like – and the problems they continue to face.  In Syria, survivors of arbitrary detention and victims of other human rights violations are helping to define a reparation policy for victims of the civil war and crimes committed by the Assad regime. In a […]

In December, a series of joyful ceremonies marked the arrival of water boreholes in six different sites across northeastern Nigeria. Communities celebrated this milestone together – one that would have been impossible without survivors of conflict-related sexual violence living amongst them.  “We have never experienced such a day as this,” Hapsat, a survivor, told the GSF team at a ceremony in the village of Girei in Adamawa state. Before this, […]

Following months of sustained advocacy, the Global Survivors Fund (GSF) welcomes the specific inclusion of reparations as a viable use of funds from the European Parliament’s support loan package for Ukraine, approved this week. Whilst modest, this important reference opens the door to ensuring that EU funding will be used to secure reparations for victims of conflict-related sexual violence, torture, forced disappearance, and other grave crimes.  Details of the expenditure priorities for this loan will be negotiated over […]

Claudia Vergara Silva / Yanet Peña’s life completely changed in 1994, when she was subjected to sexual violence in her hometown of La Granja in Colombia’s Santander region. From then on, she says, she was never the same: “Everything changed: my body, my soul, my sense of hope.”  What happened pushed her to leave her hometown in search of a better life. […]