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Susan Risal is the CEO of Nagarik Aawaz, one of our partners in Nepal. In this article originally published by Online Khabar, she describes travelling to the districts of Rukum East and West, the epicentre of Nepal’s armed conflict from 1999 to 2006.   The following text has been lightly edited for length and clarity.  From December 18 to 23, I travelled with a small group of colleagues from […]

Visiting Ukraine just weeks after the full-scale invasion in March 2022, GSF returned with a key question. Sexual violence dated back to the 2014 invasion of Crimea and was now being committed on a larger scale. How could we help survivors now, without waiting for the war to end?   This formed the basis of our pilot project, which was rolled out in 2024 to […]

From September to November 2025, GSF staff members met with survivors, and civil society organisations to explore how education can be adapted and tailored to the specific needs of children affected by conflict-related sexual violence in South Sudan, particularly those born of sexual violence. Below is an explainer drawn from experiences shared by South Sudan Coordinator Sidonia Achan and Officer Claire Rich. Gathered together in a safe space, mothers begin to tell heart-wrenching stories of abandonment and […]

In his opening address to this weeks’ Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in Doha, the UN Secretary-General said three simple words that resonate deeply with the work of the Global Survivors Fund: “corruption fuels conflict.”  For those of us working to ensure that survivors of conflict-related sexual violence can […]

The European Union has just agreed to raise €90 billion in joint debt to support Ukraine over the next two years. Yet as Europe settles on the mechanics of this financing, a more fundamental question remains unresolved: where, in this architecture, are the victims of Russia’s crimes?  For months, European leaders framed frozen Russian sovereign assets not […]

On December 1, men and women from two national networks of survivors of conflict-related sexual violence marched publicly for the first time to mark Republic Day in the Central African Republic (CAR). GSF’s Project Coordinator for CAR, Corine Wouabeng explains why this march was so important for them – and how interim reparative measures have helped survivors […]

Geneva, The Hague, Kyiv, 27 November, 2025 – While peace talks are underway to determine the future of Ukraine, the Global Survivors Fund (GSF) and the Dr. Denis Mukwege Foundation (MF) urge all parties to ensure that the demands of survivors of conflict-related sexual violence are reflected in the process.  “Survivors are outraged that amnesty for […]