This incredible technology creates a virtual court to help witnesses and survivors give informed consent to take part in trials and help them prepare for giving evidence. It’s putting survivors first. Provide support to the Global Survivors Fund, which aims to enhance CRSV survivors’ access to reparations, including through the provision of financial support, livelihood assistance, education, and healthcare services.

For more information about how prosecutors should approach the prosecution of rape and sexual offences, including the application of the Code for Crown Prosecutors, please see our Rape and Sexual Offences Legal Guidance. Increasingly WPS champion countries are introducing domestic angles to their NAPs—this brings 3 clear benefits to the UK’s NAP: As the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, I have had the privilege of meeting courageous survivors from all over the world. Their determination to fight for justice and to rid the world of this scourge is truly inspiring, and I share their commitment.the joint Home Office and FCDO Forced Marriage Unit, covering, for example, support for victims of forced marriage who have returned to the UK from overseas, free e-learning for professionals, and outreach activity by the unit Take into account reports of the use of GBV or serious acts of violence against women and children when assessing export licence applications against the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria. This Criteria is a legally binding framework, last reviewed and strengthened in December 2021. And I want to, on behalf of the United Kingdom, thank as the current Chair all Alliance members of standing with us on this important issue. Securing justice for sexual violence victims is a challenge the world has long struggled to grapple with.

Priority: strengthen the UK’s crisis response in conflict scenarios to ensure it responds to the needs of British women and girls Commitmentwomen in policing: key lessons and risks: The report provided a summary of risks and barriers, including social and political factors that inhibit women in career development and progression within the police, critical requirements to strengthen women’s roles within policing structures, and recommendations to strengthen gender equality within the police WPS mapping in Ethiopia: This report highlighted key findings and analysis from in- country consultations with WROs and other stakeholders, identifying common themes and setting out the priorities, successes, challenges and concerns around WPS initiatives in Ethiopia Sexual violence is a deeply inhumane and illegal tactic of warfare, shattering lives and scarring communities. As we launch this strategy, sexual violence continues in conflicts across the world, including in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria and Myanmar. There is also mounting evidence of rape and other heinous crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine. The UK is working with the Ukrainian Government and the International Criminal Court to bring the perpetrators to justice. Over the course of the NAP, focus countries will support the collection of indicators for the monitoring and evaluation of the NAP as part of a baseline study in Year 1, a midpoint evaluation in Year 2.5 and final evaluation in Year 5. Fragile contexts minimum standards Priority: strengthen global action against GBV, including CRSV, in conflict and humanitarian crises Commitment

Following UK advocacy, NATO’s policy on CRSV in June 2021 outlines actions that NATO will take to prevent and respond to CRSV in its operations. On 25 May 2022 NATO agreed new military guidelines to put this policy into action. Concerted action to accelerate progress on the Crimes Against Humanity ( CAH) Convention through the United Nations, and exploring how to use the Convention to strengthen the international legal architecture around gender equality and CRSV, including to strengthen prosecution and prevention of atrocity crimes including some forms of CRSV. The UK Government is committed to transparency on its progress against the NAP. We will continue to work closely with the WPS All-Party Parliamentary Group ( APPG) and civil society to ensure we are accountable and open to scrutiny. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-protocol-on-the-documentation-and-investigation-of-sexual-violence-in-conflict ↩Over the past decade, we have trained over 17,000 police and military personnel. We have also deployed the UK Team of Experts more than 90 times to countries including Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Uganda, helping to build capacity within governments, and support the United Nations and NGOs. But as we’ve heard already, it is survivors that are key, key in every sense. Survivors such as those led by our survivor champions.