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Barriers to Justice: Implementing Reparations for Sexual Violence in the DRC

Physicians for Human Rrights (PHR), Capstone, Colombia SIPA 2013

The final report evaluates reparations awarded by courts in the DRC to survivors of sexual violence, and the extent to which these reparations are being implemented. First, the report introduces the mobile court system and other judicial institutions that address sexual violence, specifically in Eastern DRC. Second, the report examines barriers to the implementation of reparations awarded by these courts. Third, the report offers recommendations to the international community to help ensure the payment of reparations to victims in the DRC and strengthen their access to justice.

https://sipa.columbia.edu/file/3193/download?token=xnYW6A24

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Caring for Child Survivors of Sexual Abuse – Guidelines for health and psychosocial service providers in humanitarian settings

International Rescue Committee and UNICEF, 2012

The guideline is based on global research on child sexual abuse and evidence from field practice. The CCS Resource Package brings a much needed comprehensive and practical approach to helping child survivors and their families
recover and heal from the impacts of sexual abuse.

 

https://gbvresponders.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/CCS-Guidelines-lowres.pdf

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Investigating Rape at the International Criminal Court: The Impact of Trauma

Ellie Smith, 2012

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been characterised by the widespread and systematic perpetration of rape and other forms of sexual violence. Rape has been committed by all actors in the conflict, including those operating in the Ituri region of the country, and the use of rape by Lubanga’s Union des Patriotes Congolais (UPC) in particular has been widely reported and documented by the UN and NGOs alike.

http://wunrn.com/wp-content/uploads/Lubanga.pdf

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Violence, Vulnerability and Migration: Trapped at the Gates of Europe

MSF, 2013

The exact proportions of sexual violence are impossible to measure, yet MSF’s medical data reveals that it is a problem of alarming proportions. Information provided by our patients reveals the high risk of sexual violence throughout the migration process, with survivors experiencing rape and other forms of sexual violence by numerous different perpetrators in their countries of origin, in route and in Morocco itself.

http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CMW/Shared%20Documents/MAR/INT_CMW_NGO_MAR_14800_E.pdf

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Hidden violence is silent rape: sexual and gender-based violence in refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands

Ines Keygnaert, 2012

Although women, young people and refugees are vulnerable to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) worldwide, little evidence exists concerning SGBV against refugees in Europe. Using community-based participatory research, 223 in-depth interviews were conducted with refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands. Responses were analysed using framework analysis.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3379780/

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What the eye does not see: a critical interpretive synthesis of European Union policies addressing sexual violence in vulnerable migrants

Ines Keygnaert & Aurore Guieu, 2015

In Europe, refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants are more vulnerable to sexual victimisation than European citizens. They face more challenges when seeking care. This literature review examines how legal and policy frameworks at national, European and international levels condition the prevention of and response to sexual violence affecting these vulnerable migrant communities living in the European Union.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.rhm.2015.11.002

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New Report: Women Refugees at Risk in Europe

Novel´s Women Initiative, 2015

The report finds that women are vulnerable a bottleneck points along the route, and even more vulnerable when they reach reception centres that do not have secure and separate sleeping areas for women. Women also experience sexual violence at alarming rates and there is currently 100% impunity for gender-based crimes committed against refugee women. High numbers of refugee women are pregnant with no access to pre- or post-natal care.

https://nobelwomensinitiative.org/new-report-women-refugees-at-risk-in-europe/

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I Didn’t Have Anywhere to Run’: Migrant Women Are Facing a Rape Epidemic

Anna-Cat Brigida, 2016

An estimated 60 to 80 percent of female migrants from Central America are sexually assaulted on their journey—and perpetrators often act with total impunity. As thousands of Central American women weigh the risks of migrating to the US each year, they must take into account an extra peril: An estimated 80 percent of female migrants from Central America are victims of sexual abuse at the hands of criminal groups, human smugglers, or corrupt officials during the journey.

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/evgg9j/i-didnt-have-anywhere-to-run-migrant-women-are-facing-a-rape-epidemic

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Sexual Violence Against Refugee Women on the Move to and Within Europe

WHO European Region, 2017

The objective of this overview is to present the issue of sexual violence (SV) against refugee women and girls and to discuss countermeasures that have been suggested or initiated by the Member States of the WHO European Region and national nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) between January (2015) and May 2016. A literature review was undertaken using Google scholar, the WHO publication database and a cross-search of journal databases.

http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/319311/9-Sexual-violence-refugee-women.pdf?ua=1

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Women migrants fearing rape take contraceptives before journey – rights groups

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Women migrants fleeing wars, political instability and poverty are taking contraceptives in the expectation of being raped but are so desperate they still embark on the journey, a human rights group said on Wednesday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-women-conference-migrant-rape/women-migrants-fearing-rape-take-contraceptives-before-journey-rights-groups-idUSKBN13P2BW

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