Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what recent discussions they have had with international partners concerning the establishment, strengthening and enforcement of accountability mechanisms for conflict-related sexual violence; and whether such discussions have included consideration of the findings and recommendations contained in the United Nations Secretary-General’s report Conflict-related Sexual Violence, published on 21 April.

The report of the UN Secretary-General on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence has not yet been formally published. We do not comment on reports ahead of publication. The UK condemns conflict related sexual violence wherever it occurs. We actively support the work of the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict and will continue engaging with international partners to ensure perpetrators are held to account and survivors receive justice and support. We remain steadfast in our commitment to strengthening accountability mechanisms for these crimes. With UK support, survivor reparations laws have been passed in Iraq, Colombia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Ukraine, alongside several landmark prosecutions and convictions in national courts in Guinea, Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We continue to call for all reports of abuses by all parties to be fully and thoroughly investigated by the relevant authorities.