This document represents a statement by the Euro-Mediterranean Human rights, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which concerns violations against detained Palestinian and Syrian women.
The statement highlights the inhuman conditions of detention faced by the Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails and the inhuman and miserable situations for Syrian hostages in secret detention centers.
The statement calls, in conclusion, the international community to take a number of measures aimed at accounting the assaulters and observation of detention condition and treatment of these conditions and circumstances.
This is a summary of the report from a meeting on Responding to the psychosocial and mental health needs of sexual violence survivors in conflict-affected settings, organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on
behalf of United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict (UNAction), on 28–30 November 2011 in Ferney-Voltaire, France
The report gave the health and social consequences of sexual violence, the general principles of humanitarian programs and programming support to victims of sexual violence related to the conflict, measures accompanying tiered sexual violence victims linked to the conflict and the different levels of psychosocial intervention and mental health for survivors of sexual violence related to the conflict.
UNFPA’s “Minimum Standards for Prevention and Response to GBV in Emergencies (GBViE)” promote the safety and well being of women and in emergencies and provide practical guidance on how to mitigate and prevent gender-based violence in emergencies and facilitate access to multi-sector services for survivors.
