Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether (a) male and (b) female victims of sexual violence in Sri Lanka that are now in the UK will have a role in events for the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative five years on that will be held in November 2019.

The British Government has been pleased by the level of interest generated by its decision earlier this year to host the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) International Conference Time for Justice: Putting Survivors First.

However, as the conference would have coincided with the pre-election period, it has been postponed until 2020. We look forward to the participation of a wide range of stakeholders, including survivors of sexual violence in conflict.

Ministers remain fully committed to realising PSVI objectives and strengthening the multi-stakeholder partnership that has been steadily built over the last seven years to tackle sexual violence in conflict, and pioneer a survivor-led approach

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