At Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, UK Foreign Secretary Hague announces £ 1 million contribution to TFV
Thursday, 12 June 2014 – The United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary William Hague announced a contribution of £ 1 million to the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The contribution is earmarked to assist victims of sexual and gender based violence. The TFV welcomes the latest donation as a sign of the UK's strong political leadership to end sexual violence in conflict and in particular to support victim survivors and their families with reparations and assistance.
Foreign Secretary Hague made the announcement during the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, which is being held in London from 10-13 June 2014.
At a Global Summit fringe event on the topic of supporting victim survivors of sexual violence, co-hosted by the TFV and the UK Foreign Office, Motoo Noguchi, Chair of the TFV Board of Directors, said that the UK's latest contribution "will give a very strong and welcome push to the ability of the Trust Fund for Victims to support victims of sexual violence, throughout its assistance and reparations programmes."
The latest contribution by the UK brings the volume of its contributions to the TFV earmarked for SGBV to a total of £ 1.8 million (or, close to €2.2 million). The need to address the effects of the pervasive and widespread practice of sexual violence in conflict, which are felt at the individual, family and community levels, has also been recognised by other donors to the TFV, many of whom have been earmarking their voluntary contributions to the TFV for SGBV victims amounting to €5 million, out of a total of close to € 19 million in total received to date.
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TFV Delegation at the Global Summit is available to engage with the press:
Motoo Noguchi, Chair of the Board of Directors
Pieter de Baan, Executive Director
Kristin Kalla, Senior Programme Manager
Kindly arrange for interviews and further information through Ms Moureen Lamonge at [email protected]
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About the Trust Fund for Victims at the International Criminal Court
With the unique mandates of both implementing Court-ordered reparations awards and the provision of assistance to victims of crimes under the ICC's jurisdiction, the Trust Fund for Victims at the ICC offers key advantages for promoting lasting peace, reconciliation, and wellbeing in war-torn societies.
The TFV fulfils two mandates for victims of crimes under jurisdiction of the ICC:
Reparations: implementing Court-ordered reparations awards against a convicted person when directed by the Court to do so.
Assistance: using voluntary contributions from donors to provide victims and their families in situations where the Court is active with physical rehabilitation, material support, and/or psychological rehabilitation.
Currently, the TFV is providing a broad range of support under its second mandate in northern Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo – including access to reproductive health services, vocational training, trauma-based counselling, reconciliation workshops, reconstructive surgery and more – to an estimated 110,000 victims of crimes under the ICC's jurisdiction. Most of our projects have incorporated both gender-specific and child-specific interventions to support the special vulnerability of women, girls, and boys.
For more information visit: http://www.trustfundforvictims.org.