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UN – STM Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Module 1: Strategic level
== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
Prevention & Response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Prevention & Response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Strategic level
DPKO-DFS Specialised Training Materials
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== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
Prevention & Response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
“In no other area is our collective failure to ensure effective protection for civilians
more apparent
– and by its very nature more shameful –
than in terms of the masses of women and girls, but also boys and men,
whose lives are destroyed each year by sexual violence perpetrated in conflict”
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Mr Ban Ki-moon United Nations Secretary-General
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UN – STM Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Module 1: Strategic level
== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
Prevention & Response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Aim
To provide an overview of the relevance, challenges and organisational response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence from a strategic perspective.
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== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of this session, participants will be able to :
• Comprehend the Context of CRSV
• Explain definition, & principles;
• List and explain the legal framework;
• List Specificities & requirements of the Mandate
• Understand the UN approaches at the strategic level;
• List roles & responsibilities of UNHQ entities.
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== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
Prevention & Response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
• CRSV: Overview (Mandate, Definitions, Principles, Linkages and Differences).
• CRSV - Realities, Patterns, Potential Victims, Perpetrators and Motives.
• CRSV Legal Framework.
• Specificities & requirements of the CRSV Mandate.
• UN approaches at the strategic level
• roles & responsibilities of UNHQ entities
STRUCTURE
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== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
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Movie on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence as an introduction. This video can be download at http://research.un.org/en/peacekeeping-community/Training.
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== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
Prevention & Response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
(Mandate, Definitions, Principles, Linkages and Differences)
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CRSV Overview
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CRSV: Mandate
• Address CRSV from a political, peace & security
perspective.
• POC to also include all forms of sexual violence.
• Specific protection for women & children.
• Deployment of WPA.
• Establishing MARA.
• Monitoring, help investigating, reporting &
preventing sexual violations & abuses.
• Contributing to efforts to identify & prosecute
perpetrators.
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== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
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CRSV: Definition
• “Conflict-related sexual violence refers to incidents or (for SCR 1960 listing purposes) patterns of sexual violence, that is rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of Sexual violence of comparable gravity, against women, men, girls or boys”.
• Such incidents or patterns occur in conflict or post-conflict settings or other situations of concern (e.g., political strife).
UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict
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== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
Prevention & Response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
CRSV: Dimensions & Linkages
• Direct or indirect nexus with the conflict or political strife.
• International character (can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, acts of torture or genocide).
• Link with the conflict may be evident in:
– The profile & motivations of the perpetrator(s);
– The profile of the victim(s);
– The climate of impunity/weakened State capacity;
– Cross-border dimensions; and/or,
– The fact that it violates the terms of a ceasefire agreement.
UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict
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== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
Prevention & Response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
CRSV Principles
• Primary Responsibility
of Host State.
• UN Peacekeepers
Responsibility.
• Priority Obligation.
• Mission-wide
Responsibility.
• Community-centric
Approach.
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• Gender-sensitive
Approach.
• Survivor-centric Response.
• Non-exclusivity.
• Ethical Reporting.
• Integrality.
• Preventability.
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Context, Patterns, Potential Victims, Perpetrators and Motives
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CRSV
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Context
• Thrives in gender discrimination & inequalities.
• Widespread, endemic & invisible.
• Extent & impact difficult to ascertain.
• Disproportionate effect.
• Psychological & physical effects.
• IDPs, Refugees & people in DDR processes.
• Unreported/under reported & under responded.
• Stigma & banishment.
• Indicators, precedence, patterns & trends.
• Culture of impunity.
• Weak State capacities.
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Patterns/Trends
CRSV is usually committed as part of/during: • Attack on IDPs/refugees; protection sites/safe heavens; political leaders
and their families; people undergoing DDR processes; religious/cultural institutions/monuments; community settlements;
• Waylaying of women/girls during subsistence/economic activities; • House to house searches; • Abduction/kidnapping/hostage taking; • Predatory attacks/practices; • Increased vulnerabilities (political strife, displacements, etc.); • Forcible obtaining of logistical support; • Abduction/forced recruitment of boys and girls; • Punitive strikes/retribution against rival communities/groups; • Scorched Earth Policy; &, • In detention as a form of torture & intimidation.
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== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
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Potential Victims
• Rival socio- politico-ethnic-religious individuals/groups/ communities & associated people.
• Other Personnel (disabled, elderly, orphans, detained persons, IDPs, refugees, etc.).
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== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
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Perpetrators
• State actors (civil/military/police/gendarme officials/entities).
• Non-State actors (armed actors/groups, militias, organised criminal networks, former combatants, young men brutalised by conflict, etc.
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Victims of recent inter-tribal violence receive treatment at a hospital in Akobo, Sudan (May 2009).
The town of Abyei was the scene of renewed violence (May 2011)
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Threats
• Rape (including torture);
• Sexual slavery (in camps & in the bush);
• Forced prostitution/pregnancy & enforced
sterilization; &,
• Any other sexual violence of comparable
gravity (e.g. sexual mutilation,
emasculation, branding, & forced marriage/
abortion/incest, etc.).
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An eight-year-old girl, shown at a safe house in Monrovia, Liberia, was told by her aunt to "keep quiet" about her father’s molestation and eventual rape
Vivian (left), a caregiver at a safe house in Monrovia, Liberia, coaches an eleven-year-old rape victim
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== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
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CRSV : Motives
• Control of population, territory & natural resources.
• Political repression, sectarian violence & ethnic cleansing.
• Humiliation(men & women).
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Legal Aspects
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Legal Aspects
• A gross violation of IHRL, grave breach of IHL, International Criminal
Law, International Customary Law & Refugee Law.
• A crime in most National legal systems.
• A threat to international peace & security (ICC Jurisdiction).
– A war crime &/or crime against humanity &/or a form of torture
&/or a constituent act of genocide (under ICC).
• A ‘tactic of war’.
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Strategic Approach
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Framework at UNHQ
HQ
UNSC
UNA
SRSG-SVC
TOE
DPKO
OHCHR
At the UNHQ level, following entities support implementation of CRSV mandate:
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Strategic Measures
Strategic
Approach
Peace
Process
WPS
Political
Dialogue
Commit-ments
Listing
Sanction
Ending Impunity
* Accountability * Responsiveness * Judicial Capacity
* Prohibition * Accountability * Codes of Conduct * Investigation * Cooperate * Designate
* SCR 1960 (2010) * Secretary-General’s Annual Report * Pattern & Collectivity
* UNSC * UN Sanctions Committee * Targeted, graduated & State-specific
* Monitoring * Criminal Accountability * Judicial Process * National Forums * ICC/Tribunals * Deterrence & Prevention
* Inclusive. * Reflective.
* Empowerment of women * Equality * Participation in mediation * Protection
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DPKO/DFS Role
• Develops policy, guidance & training materials.
• Advises Senior Management & Mission leadership.
• Promotes human rights & a gender-sensitive approach.
• Mainstream/coordinate/implement CRSV mandate.
• Monitors trends & patterns of CRSV.
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== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
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Role and Responsibilities of Members States
and
Regional/Sub-Regional Organizations:
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Prevention & Response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Members States Role
• Heighten awareness and responsiveness to PoC,
• Ensure full compliance of the zero tolerance policy on SEA,
• Include the full range of crimes of SV in national penal legislation
• Include specific training on sexual and gender-based violence
• Support national and international programs that assist victims
• Deploy higher percentage of women peacekeepers in peacekeeping operations;
• Encouraged to lend expertise on SV investigation and response; and,
• Respect international jurisdiction for the violation of international law .
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Regional and Sub-regional Bodies Role
• Taking measures to increase the representation of women in mediation processes and
decision-making processes with regard to conflict resolution and peacebuilding;
• Providing information on situations of armed conflict in which SV has been widely or
systematically employed against civilians;
• Analysing the prevalence and trends of sexual violence in situations of armed conflict;
• Proposing strategies to minimize the susceptibility of women and girls to such violence;
• Establishing benchmarks for measuring progress in preventing and addressing SV; and
• Collecting timely, objective, accurate, and reliable information on the use of CRSV.
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== UN-CRSV STM/ 1st Edition – 2017 == DPKO & DFS/ ITS
Prevention & Response to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Summary of Key Messages
Rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy,
enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of
comparable gravity, against women, men, girls or boys in a conflict
or post-conflict situation constitute CRSV.
A crime of IHRL/IHL/ICL
Punishable & preventable.
Under-reported & under-responded
Address through peace process; women’s participation; political
engagement, eliciting commitments; listing of perpetrators;
imposing sanctions & judicial processes.
Proactive measures & credible responses to neutralise threats.
Survivor & community centric.
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Conclusion
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Conclusion
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QUESTIONS?
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Thank you
Merci
شكرا
Gracias
謝謝
спасибо