Asked by: Theresa Villiers (Conservative - Chipping Barnet)
Question
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will have discussions with the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on tackling gender-based violence in other countries.
Answered by Kemi Badenoch - Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
The department works closely with the Foreign Secretary on many issues, including tackling violence against women and girls in other countries.
The UK is a global leader on action to address conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) and has committed £60m since the launch of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative(PSVI) in 2012.
We have also put forward the first ever UK nomination to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Professor Shazia Choudhry, whose academic work
focuses on violence against women and girls.
Asked by: Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, whether his Department is taking steps through the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict initiative to help support Ukrainian officials to investigate alleged acts of sexual violence by Russian forces since 2022.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani
The UK is working with Ukrainian authorities to hold those responsible for gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence, in Ukraine to account. The UK has committed up to £6.2 million to enhance Ukraine's domestic capacity for war crimes investigations and to help embed international guidelines and best practice into the work of Ukrainian prosecutors and investigators, including on survivor-centred approaches. This assistance has been largely delivered through projects via the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group for Ukraine, established with the US and EU, and deployments of UK experts, including the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) Team of Experts.
May. 09 2024
Source Page: Call for Proposals: UKISF Pacific ProgrammeFound: How our pioneering work to prevent sexual violence in conflict has brought a methodology, and hope,
May. 09 2024
Source Page: Call for Proposals: UKISF Pacific ProgrammeFound: How our pioneering work to prevent sexual violence in conflict has brought a methodology, and hope,
Dec. 07 2010
Source Page: UK Government National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325 women, peace & security. 52 p.Found: military and other actors for committing sexual violence.
Found: Conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Jul. 11 2024
Source Page: Annual Progress Report on the OSCE Gender Action Plan: UK statement, July 2024Found: Gender equality, empowering women in politics, and combatting all forms of violence against women and
Mentions:
1: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) This is the country that has suffered the worst sexual violence in war of almost any country in the world—a - Speech Link
2: Kate Osamor (LAB - Edmonton and Winchmore Hill) Women and children have borne the brunt of this violence, with systematic sexual violence used as a weapon - Speech Link
3: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) sexual violence, including as members of the International Alliance on Preventing Sexual Violence in - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Turnberg (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of allegations of rape of Israeli women by members of Hamas in its attack on 7 October 2023, and the implications for international law.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Reports of sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023 detail abhorrent acts of violence against Israeli women and girls. The UK stands in solidarity with all of the victims and survivors.
We condemn sexual violence unequivocally and without exception. These reports must be fully investigated to ensure justice for survivors and victims.
The international community should be clear in condemning sexual violence wherever it occurs, including in Israel.
Conflict-related sexual violence is an abuse of human rights and when perpetrated in the context of an armed conflict, can constitute a violation of international humanitarian law such as a war crime.
Found: Prevention of sexual violence in conflict