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International Symposium on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Beyond Bosnia and Hercegovina – Presentation Palais d’Egmont, Brussels, Belgium 21-23 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
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