According to the Kosova Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims (KRCT), KRCT “is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organization that was founded in 1999 with the mission to provide treatment and rehabilitation for Kosovar torture victims. KRCT continuously works to expand its staff’s and the public sector’s capacity to provide services on trauma and torture related issues. KRCT is also engaged in promoting the respect of human rights for all of Kosova’s ethnicities and in the prevention and eradication of torture and any form of ill-treatment.” (…) “The Kosova Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims (KRCT) was established as a response to the needed for psycho-social support of torture and trauma survivors and systematic oppression exercised against the Kosovo civil population during the Kosovo war (1998-1999) which led to grave consequences in the field of mental health and physicalsocial conditions of this population.” The survivors supported by KRCT include survivors of CRSV.
Medica Zenica is an organisation where women traumatised during the Bosnian war and where they survived sexual violence later found vital support, including medical, psychosocial and material assistance. Medica Zenica has been able to support thousands of these women, providing a safe place for them to be able to redevelop self-confidence and hope for the future.
According to Solace Ministries: “Solace Ministries is a Rwandan, non-profit, non-political, Christian organization established by Jean Gakwandi in December 1994 following the Genocide of 1994 based on the call “Comfort, Comfort my people (Isaiah 40:1).” (…) “The vision was initially to comfort widows and orphan survivors of the genocide against Tutsi people of 1994 and was later extended to other hurting people such as victims of HIV/AIDS. The beneficiaries are organized into 60 communities and are an alternative family for many survivors with an estimate of 8,000 families.” (…) “We have a holistic approach to meeting the needs of the widows and orphans, these include;
- Providing counselling for trauma healing
- Providing formal and informal education for orphans and needy children
- Providing shelter for the homeless
- Fighting loneliness with a community as an alternative family
- Integrated Community based development programs to fight against poverty
- Providing medical assistance for the sick and establishing a medical clinic
Hundreds of widows and orphans have been comforted and given a restored desire to live on through the work and projects of Solace Ministries. Hundreds of others have overcome feelings of hatred, anger and resentment. Most of the beneficiaries of Solace Ministries have lost their entire families but have found an alternative family through the large family at Solace Ministries.” The beneficiaries of Solace Ministries include hundreds of survivors of genocidal sexual violence.
According to SOFEPADI: “Sofepadi has been working for over 22 years in the Democratic Republic of Congo to defend and promote the specific rights of Congolese women and girls. We have decentralised our programmes to bring our staff closer to all those we serve. We have 8 offices in the interior of the country in addition to the office in Kinshasa [English translation].” SOFEPADI supports women and girls who survived CRSV, including socio-economically, medically and legally.
According to Somali Women and Child Care Association (SWCCA): “SWCCA is local organization Somali women, children and youth organization, SWCCA is non profit humanitarian. SWCCA founded in April 2012 in Mogadishu by a group of Somali intelligence Women from cross-section of the community, the organization is functionally operating in Somalia particularly South-central Zone. SWCCA contributes to the creation of a safe and sustainable environment by supporting women and children to overcome marginalization, violence and poverty in their communities. It is a non-profit making organization that works with a variety of organizations that share similar values and vision. SWCCA is mainly involved in empowering Somali women and girls, aiming for gender equality and the eradication of all forms of discrimination against women and children. Through empowering and mobilizing women participation in decision making process, the contribution to the development processes, the promotion of woman’s political, economic and civic rights and the expansion by providing legal support through social improving psychological well being among women and girls, and combating gender-based violence also enhancing child protection and child education.”
Women in Action for Women (Uganda) “supports women survivors of conflict in Northern Uganda to recover by providing business skills enhancement and vocational training. This allows female survivors to start and run small businesses, increase earnings, support their families and engage actively in civic processes that will, in the long run, address structural violence problems.” (…) “There are over 3,000 female survivors of LRA conflict between 25 and 45 years old in Northern Uganda; 95% are single mothers. Their children, born in captivity, now range from 12-25 years old; the women also have other children born after the conflict.”
The Centro Para la Accion Legal en Derechos Humanos (CALDH), or Centre for Human Rights and Legal Action) began in the 1980s as an unofficial association united to fight for basic human rights to help establish peace during Guatemala’s 36-year civil war. Following the Peace Accords of 1996, CALDH was recognised as an official institution that promotes and defends human rights, while consciously recognising the historical memory of Guatemala’s civil war in its pursuit of basic freedoms. The organisation trains partner organisations to act out against impunity and injustice and has a program on women’s rights, including focussing on CRSV.
Justice for Lai Dai Han “gives a voice to victims of conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence across the world. We are committed to highlighting the suffering experienced by the Lai Dai Han – the dual heritage children of Vietnamese women raped by South Korean soldiers during the Vietnam War – and their mothers. We are campaigning for an international investigation into these allegations, and for the international community to take real action to end sexual violence in conflict and hold perpetrators accountable.”
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