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<p>The Global Summit set in motion a series of unprecedented practical steps and commitments.
In addition, it significantly raised the profile of this issue and placed it firmly
on the international policy agenda. Following the Summit, we are now working to implement
the outcomes of the Summit and to incorporate efforts to prevent sexual violence in
conflict into all aspects of international conflict prevention, stabilisation, peacebuilding,
security and justice, humanitarian and human rights work. This is based on a programme
of political and practical activity that includes: - Implementing the International
Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict through
advocacy, capacity building and national application; -Encouraging governments to
implement fully in domestic legislation the Rome Statute of the International Criminal
Court and for more states to accede to the Rome Statute and to implement fully its
provisions in domestic law; - Pressing governments to do more to support HRDs and
building further the capacity of local civil society and grass roots organisations
to document and respond to acts of sexual violence and to provide support to survivors;
and - Encouraging governments to do more to include sexual violence issues in their
doctrine and training and to enforce initiatives on military conduct and discipline.
We are also working with and encouraging those governments who announced new plans
or commitments at the Summit to implement them as fully and as quickly as possible.
This country activity is complemented by ongoing UK support to the full range of multilateral
bodies so as to ensure that PSVI and the outcomes from the Summit are fully integrated
into their daily activity as well as future international events. During the UN General
Assembly in New York in September, I co-hosted, with the UN Secretary General's Special
Representative on tackling sexual violence, Zainab Bangura, a conference attended
by over 120 representatives of countries, international bodies, and Non-Governmental
Organisations, to agree concrete steps for turning the Global Summit's conclusions
into real change on the ground.</p>
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