non-judicial measures

non-judicial measures

Non-judicial measures were an additional mechanism to the judicial decisions aimed at providing all Khmer Rouge victims and survivors with some form of justice regardless of their legal status before the ECCC.

The four following projects were implemented:

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Promoting gender equality and improving access to justice for female survivors and victims of gender-based violence (GBV) under the Khmer Rouge regime

was implemented by Victims Support Section (VSS) in cooperation with the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO). Four main projects were implemented:

Memorial to Victims of Khmer Rouges at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

(by the ECCC/VSS and Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts)

Community Peace Learning Center in Kraing Tachan Takeo Province

(Youth for Peace (YfP))

Healing ceremonies

(local initiative)

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Promoting gender equality and improving access to justice for female survivors and victims of gender-based violence (GBV) under the Khmer Rouge regime

was implemented by Victims Support Section (VSS) in cooperation with the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO). Four main projects were implemented:

A.

Access to justice and victim participation

For female survivors, in particular GBV victims, criminal justice is essential to deal with the past. For Cambodian society and the international community, criminal justice is equivalent to the end of impunity which has prevailed in Cases of GBV over centuries. VSS and TPO ran a series of activities to support female survivors and GBV victims, including:

  • Facilitating GBV and female civil parties’ attendance at the ECCC to enable them to follow the trial directly
  • Conducting civil party forums and meetings to provide legal updates and psychological support to GBV victim-survivors and female civil parties

B.

Raising awareness and advocacy

  • In order to raise awareness about gender and increase support to victims, VSS has worked with youths, government officials, NGOs, and the public:
  • Radio live show programme “Women in the Khmer Rouge Regime”, broadcast
    monthly on FM 102, discusses various aspects of women’s experiences in conflict,
    including GBV, psychosocial consequences, and civil parties’ participation at
    the ECCC.
  • The website www.gbvkr.org and Facebook page were created to document the
    impact of the entire project and to disseminate information to young generation
  • Meetings were held with relevant government institutions to seek support for victims of gender-based violence during the Khmer Rouge and solutions to the present impacts.
  • Participation in the 16-Day Campaign to End Violence against Women and International Women’s Day.
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Psychological Interventions

Many GBV survivors suffer from mental health problems that hinder them from fully engaging in social, political and professional fields. Psychosocial support is indispensable when working with GBV survivors. TPO developed a series of new and innovative interventions in the Cambodian context in response to the needs of Khmer Rouge survivors:

  • Self-help group is a psychological intervention that brings a group of women with
    the similar background of GBV in the past together to share their experiences,
    find support from each other in order to contribute to a healing process
  • Counselling and medical treatment are provided to a number of civil parties with severe trauma and other forms of mental health problems
  • Testimonial therapy is an innovative approach that combines individual truth-telling with a public ceremony during which suffering is acknowledged
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  • Research on “Idiom of Distress” is conducted and documented

D.

Capacity building

Training courses and workshops on gender sensitivity and psychological effects are conducted to build capacity to employees of ECCC and NGO partners working with victims of gender-based violence.

What
reparations
were sought by
civil parties?
What
reparations
were sought by
civil parties?