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<p>Since launching the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) in
2012, the UK has continued to lead global efforts to end the horror of sexual violence
in conflict, and we have committed over £44 million in UK funding across 26 countries.
The Ministry of Defence has trained 17,000 000 national and international police and
military personnel, including peacekeepers, on sexual and gender-based violence issues,
including in Kenya, Nigeria, DRC, Malawi and Iraq. The UK’s PSVI Team of Experts has
been deployed over 90 times, to build the capacity of partner governments, the UN
and NGOs. We have launched the first and second editions of the International Protocol
on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict, and employed
the Protocol to build the capacity of governments, judiciary, police, military and
civil society to gather evidence of sexual violence in conflict and strengthen prosecutions.
It has also been used by many NGOs and international organisations such as the ICC
and UN OHCHR. To help tackle the stigma of sexual violence, we launched the ‘Principles
for Global Action: preventing and addressing stigma associated with conflict-related
sexual violence’ at the UN General Assembly in September 2017. These principles have
been used by organisations including the UN, for example as part of the Stigma Alleviation
Program in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The UK will host a PSVI International Conference
in November 2019 to galvanise the world into further action, and demonstrate the UK’s
continued global leadership on tackling sexual violence in conflict.</p>
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