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International Symposium on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Beyond
Bosnia and Hercegovina – Presentation
Palais d’Egmont, Brussels, Belgium21-23 June 2006
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Session Five
Designing and Implementing National Action Plans for Addressing Sexual Violence for Conflict and
Recovery: Examples from the Field
Concurrent Session III
Presenter Dr. Nada Ler Sofronic
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Elements of the Action Plan
• Elements discussed according to:
a) Commitee of Ministers Council of Europe Recommendation 2002 5 on the Protection of Women against Violence
b) UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women and General Recommendations 19 of the CEDAW Committee;
c) The ICTY Rulings on War Rape as a War Crime
d) Concluding comments regarding VAW to State Report of the CEDAW Committee -15 May-2 June 2006 Bosnia and Herzegovina
e) National institutional framework
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Elements of the Action Plan
• State Policy / Strategy;
• Legal Framework implemented in practice;
• Governmental institution / specific bodies established;
• Special policies (different areas of concern) and action plans;
• SGBV Budget;
• NGOs and civil society associations budget
• SGBV, a specific emerging issue (BiH post-conflict country);
• Policy and advocacy actions needed – gap between de jura and de-facto;
• Implementation, M&E of Action Plan;
• Judiciary, health, education, social protection etc, also victims’ rehabilitation policies;
• Each area of concern has its own budget for implementation, M&E - Government provision, different foundations and donors, international community
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Elements of the Action Plan
• BiH Legislation on violence and trafficking in women;
• Information for victims per laws;
• Intervention programmes
• Special conditions and measures needed to avoid revictimisation and ensure appropriate protection;
• Details codes of conduct, rules and guidelines needed;
• Information about rights, available services and legal aid;
• Establishment of free legal aid, programmes for the perpetrators,
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• Mandatory education and state regulated trainings on violence, sexual violence against women;
• Media law provisions;• Codes of conduct, guidelines for media;• Media watch organisations;• Media education and mandatory education about media
intervention regarding SGBV;• Statistics, facts and figures comprehensive statistics and
common indicators for scale of violence evaluation;• Systematic and integrated gender disaggregated data
collection
Elements of the Action Plan
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Further Steps
• Elements of the action plan developed into strategies and activities with concrete tasks, deadlines, responsible actors, budget;
• Institutions, special bodies for implementation and M&E set up;
• Budget worked out, including financial support for the NGO work in the field;
• Multisectoral cooperation (police, health social services, education, judiciary and NGOs) with signed protocol in place
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Further Steps
• Review mandatory school curricula at all levels, including university and SGBV issues included;
• Introduced pre- service and in service training programmes for all law enforcement professional;
• Existing media laws revised and SGBV perspective incorporated (sexist terminology and stereotypes about women);
• Statistics system developed, common indicators defined, denominators defined, systematic data collection started and registration of cases methodology adopted by all law enforcement professionals
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BiH Stakeholders’ Meeting
13 June 2006
STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN!
Thank you