Victims Support Section (VSS) of the ECCC, in cooperation with Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) will carry out the second-phase of its project entitled “Promoting Gender Equality and Improving Access of Justice for Female and Gender-based Violence (GBV) Survivors of the Khmer Rouge (KR) Regime.”
The UNTF/UN Women has provided the VSS/ECCC with a USD 1 million grant to be implemented over the three year duration of the project, commencing January 2016 under the non-judicial measures (NJM) framework of the VSS/ECCC. The objective of the project is to ensure that female civil parties, in particularly GBV survivors of the KR, have access to justice and are satisfied with the redress by the end 2018. The projectl contributes to the overarching goal of UN Women to prevent and end violence against women and young girls in today’s society.
The first-phase of the project, implemented from 2011 to 2014, made significant progress and had positive impacts on female and GBV survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime. The project succesfully brought issues of GBV to the attention of the public and made victims’ voices heard, reaching approximately 800 Civil Parties through participation in various activities. These activities include forums, workshops, testimonial therapies, women’s hearings, self-help groups and forum theatres. For more information, please go to: www.gbvkr.org .
During the second-phase of implementation, the VSS will carry out a wide variety of activities including: gender-sensitivity training, regional and national women hearings, public forums, radio-call-in shows, vocational training, civil parties’ participation in ECCC hearings, legal representation, and will continue to raise awareness of violence against women committed during the Khmer Rouge regime. TPO will carry-out psychological interventions with Civil Parties in various provinces in Cambodia.