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In 2022, the Global Survivors Fund (GSF) and partners began scoping for opportunities for reparations in Cote D’Ivoire. In this blog, lead country consultant Joanna Rice explains our ensuing pilot project, and how community-based initiatives can pave a way for future reparation programmes. The pilot – extended through 2025 – is carried out with our partner […]

In 2022, GSF partnered with the Association of Detainees and Missing of Sednaya Prison (ADMSP) and the Centre for Victims of Torture (CVT), working with Syrian survivors of detention now living in Türkiye. As the project came to an end in December 2024 and with the fall of the Assad regime happening the same month, ADMSP […]

Flagship project provides trauma-informed learning for children in Borno state. When Boko Haram overran northeast Nigeria in the summer of 2014, insurgents systematically targeted the education system, attacking schools and kidnapping hundreds of pupils. Now schools are being used as a venue for healing for children affected by conflict-related sexual violence.  But what does this look like?  Education […]

Five decades of terror, torture, arbitrary detentions and the killing of hundreds of thousands of Syrians ended with the toppling of the Assad regime earlier this week, leaving an entire country deeply wounded and survivors of torture with the immense task of rebuilding their lives.  The scale, horror and duration of the crimes perpetrated by […]

Kyiv, Geneva, November 20, 2024 – The adoption of the Law on Legal and Social Protection of the Rights of Victims of Sexual Violence Related to the Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, and Urgent Interim Reparations (No. 10132) by the Ukrainian parliament recognises survivors of conflict-related sexual violence as victims and ensures the creation […]

Diana Bravo is a lawyer and a PhD candidate at the National University of Colombia. She has focused on the right to reparation for the last 15 years and worked with states entities, civil society, and academia. For GSF, Diana’s work has been centred on the Colombian context and the challenges of the right to […]

As part of our work in the Central African Republic, we are putting the final touch on the Global Reparations Study (GRS). Wrapping up one such study means seeking the validation of the survivors who contributed to it. Using our co-creation methodology, the participants express how they perceive the study and recommendations and provide suggestions if changes […]

The Honorable Antony BlinkenSecretary of StateU.S. Department of State The Honorable Samantha PowerAdministratorU.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Dear Secretary Blinken and Administrator Power, As concerned non-governmental organizations and individuals working with victims and survivors of gross human rights violations and serious violations of humanitarian law in Ukraine, we write to urge the United States […]

There are significant challenges when creating a system to award reparation to victims of armed conflict, and particularly to those who suffered conflict-related sexual violence. One such challenge I encounter time and again is how a government can reach and identify survivors.  Serious violations, like rape, slavery, or sexualised torture impose terror and humiliation on […]

Since 2022, the Global Survivors Fund (GSF) and our partner organisations, Association for the Detained and Missing of Sednaya Prison (ADMSP) and Centre for Victims of Torture (CVT), have embarked together on implementing an interim reparative measures project for Syrian survivors of detention living in south Türkiye.  These survivors of torture, which has been committed […]