By Jeanne d’Arc Katungu Ndondo, SOFEPADI In the heart of Ituri Province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a beacon of hope has shone for the past 26 years for women and girls who have survived sexual and gender-based violence. This refuge is known as the Karibuni… Read More
By Juliana Laguna Trujillo and Valeria Babără from Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice On 28 April 2026, Trial Chamber X of the International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down its Reparations Order in the Al Hassan case. In a unanimous decision, the Chamber set Al Hassan’s liability at €7,250,000, estimated… Read More
By Ojaswi K.C., Human Rights and Justice Centre Fulmati Nyaya*, a survivor of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), had already filed her complaint with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) when she was called back for a verification consultation in April 2026. She was told to appear the same day, with… Read More
By Deborah Nyokabi, Equality Now and Steering Committee of Implementation Working Group The Democratic Republic of Congo consistently reports the highest number of cases of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV)annually in the Secretary General’s Annual Report. In this context, the decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights… Read More
By Alvi Hakim, Legal and Operations Advisor, BLAST, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh In the immediate aftermath of the July 2024 student protests, BLAST, carried out a fact-finding mission to document the realities faced by survivors, with a particular focus on severely injured survivors in urgent need of medical and… Read More
By Iryna Dovhan, SEMA UKRAINE My name is Iryna Dovhan. I am the founder and head of the organisation SEMA UKRAINE. We began our work in 2018 with the support of the Mukwege Foundation. Initially, we brought together women from the occupied Donbas, but over time survivors from all regions… Read More
By Cristián Correa, Head of Reparation Praxis Hub, Global Survivors Fund In the aftermath of the 2022 full-scale invasion, momentum around reparations for victims of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine grew rapidly, anchored by the UN General Assembly’s Resolution recognising the need for reparation. At the same time, Global Survivors… Read More
By Anastasiia Holovnenko, Advocacy Campaigns Lead at the Center for Civil Liberties For Western readers, Ukraine is often framed as a foreign war. In reality, its costs for other countries are already felt in energy bills, migration pressures, defence budgets, and the erosion of the rules meant to prevent wars like this in… Read More