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We also continue to lead international efforts to support children born of conflict-related sexual violence. up to date SEAH risk management plans will be in place, informed by SEAH risk assessment (and in countries with humanitarian responses informed by SEA risk index) Commission new research into the barriers to women’s meaningful participation and leadership in global peace and mediation efforts, and to understand the nuance around the different challenges faced by Senior Mediators of different genders. Priority: focus on inclusive peace outcomes as well as processes and push for the inclusive and full implementation of negotiated settlements that promote gender-sensitive reconciliation and more inclusive structures, institutions and processes Commitment

Rape Cases – Police referral to the Crown Prosecution Service for early investigative and other advice. This document provides further guidance for police and prosecutors about the existing requirements for early investigative and other advice.

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As the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, I have had the privilege of meeting courageous survivors from all over the world. Their determination to fight for justice and to rid the world of this scourge is truly inspiring, and I share their commitment. Achieve a 30% Level of Ambition for inflow of women into the Armed Forces by 2030 and continue to improve representation by introducing retention friendly initiatives, such as flexible working. Increasing women’s meaningful participation, leadership and representation in decision-making processes. 2. Gender-based violence

number and type of UK support to enhance gender-responsive social protection (i.e. programmes/technical/assistance/ research or influencing) The Women in Conflict Fellowship provides expert training in mediation, conflict resolution, reconciliation and constitution building for women from conflict-affected regions. The fellowship is funded by the Scottish Government and offered by a Scottish- based organisation which equips these women, who work in (or adjacent to) the field of peacebuilding, with skills in gender-sensitive conflict resolution and peacebuilding mechanisms and creates a safe-space to share knowledge and network with one-another. Take forward a new initiative - ‘ ACT for Survivors’ - to strengthen accountability for conflict related sexual violence ( CRSV) at the national level, including (but not limited to) increased prosecutions, with strengthened survivor focus. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-strategy-safeguarding-against-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse-and-sexual-harassment-within-the-aid-sector ↩ We will promote adherence to the Global Code of Conduct for Investigating and Documenting CRSV [footnote 14] (the ‘Murad Code’) for all organisations gathering information from CRSV survivors, and will review how the Murad Code can strengthen UK Government practice. The UK-funded Murad Code was developed by the Institute for International Criminal Investigations with support from Nadia’s Initiative and other partners. The Murad Code will help to ensure that CRSV survivors’ experiences are documented in a safer and more effective way, enhancing the protection of survivors’ human rights.Priority: hold itself accountable for issues of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse ( SEA) and unacceptable sexual behaviours Commitment We have the responsibility collectively to bridge that gap. This does mean that every one of our States, putting the Council’s resolutions, which have been passed into actual living practice, ensuring that important and pivotal access to justice, and importantly providing survivors with the critical services they need to, importantly, rebuild their lives.

Special measures can also be applied for and put in place during court proceedings to make the experience less traumatic for victims and witnesses. Where they are available, measures include: Women are often viewed as honest brokers by negotiating parties. This perception is rooted in the reality of their exclusion: because women often operate outside existing power structures and generally do not control fighting forces, they are more widely perceived to be politically impartial mediators in peace negotiations, compared with men. [footnote 15] WROs have staged mass actions successfully and mobilised public opinion campaigns in many countries to encourage progress in peace talks, with notable examples in Burundi, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC), Liberia and Somalia. [footnote 16] International engagement on gender issues and funding for WROs can expand and create new spaces for ongoing women’s rights activism. [footnote 17] put survivors at the heart of our approach and prioritise those most at risk, taking a survivor-centred approach in all initiatives to support victims/survivors of GBV. This includes investing in FCDO’s flagship What Works to Prevent Violence Programme and funding the Global Survivors Fund number of countries that UK Defence supports to deliver on WPS at (1) strategic level, and (2) at the operational and tactical level Disclosing private sexual images without consent (so-called ‘revenge pornography’). This relates to private sexual photographs and films of a person that have been disclosed without the consent of an individual who appears in them, with intent to cause that individual distress. Such images may be uploaded onto the internet, often by a person’s ex-partner, to cause them distress, humiliation or embarrassment.Provide direct support to help strengthen and enhance the work of grassroots WROs and movements, including those working in conflict and crisis like women peacebuilders, and to amplify grassroots women’s and girls’ voices in donor, national government and international policy making. As part of the new initiative, we are supporting the Mukwege Foundation to develop a guidebook on ‘The Law of State Responsibility for CRSV’, which will help States understand their existing obligations under international law to prevent and respond to CRSV. the number of Troop and Police Contributing Countries that the UK supports to increase women deployed in UN peace operations Promote the meaningful participation of uniformed women in UN peace operations including support for the Elsie Initiative. In another village, Russian soldiers herded women into a basement, with the intention of raping them one by one,” reads another.