Select Committee on Sexual Violence in Conflict
Sexual Violence in Conflict: A War Crime
Report - published 12 April 2016 - HL Paper 123
Contents
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Legal and political background
Figure 1: Map of sexual violence in conflict-affected countries
Chapter 2: Policy and legal framework
The Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative
The Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Application of international law
The Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative
Behavioural and attitudinal change
Military training and good practice
Chapter 4: Women’s participation
The Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Chapter 5: Responding to victims and survivors
Prioritising the needs of the victim and survivor
A comprehensive and survivor-focused approach
Box 2: Stigma experienced by women freed from Boko Haram
Vulnerability to further harms
Asylum seekers, refugees and internally displaced persons
Box 3: Examples of recent emergencies where women and
girls have been exploited or abused
The Call to Action on Protecting Women and Girls in
Emergencies
Box 4: The Call to Action on Protecting Women and Girls in Emergencies
The role of local organisations
Chapter 6: Accountability and justice
Documentation and evidence gathering
The International Protocol on the Documentation and
Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict
Truth and reconciliation commissions
Capacity building for national judicial systems
Box 5: Impact of FCO national justice programmes
Challenges in holding violent non-state groups accountable
Methods to hold violent non-state groups accountable
Chapter 7: Sexual violence by peacekeepers
Box 7: The Government’s approach to peacekeeping
Chapter 8: Meetings with survivors
Meeting with Ms Polline Akello
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Appendix 4: Acronyms and glossary
Appendix 5: Timeline of major international and national policy developments
Appendix 6: Committee visit to the Democratic Republic of
Congo and Rwanda
Appendix 7: UN gender statistics by mission
Appendix 8: UN troop and police contributions
Appendix 9: Variations in conflict-related sexual violence:
selected cases
Appendix 10: Global spread of sexual violence in conflict since
1945
Evidence is published online at http://www.parliament.uk/svc-committee and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7129 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.