Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

UN Women's Peace & Humanitarian Fund: Discussion

Ms Ghita El Khyari:

I thank Ms Stryzhak for those insights. When it comes to conflict-related sexual violence, the fund also leverages the global nature of our interventions. We all know that conflict-related sexual violence is something that is, unfortunately, used in many war and conflict contexts. As the fund is present in more than 26 countries, we are also trying to draw experiences from other settings. I am thinking of the obvious one, which is the Democratic Republic of Congo and the foundation of Dr. Mukwege, but there are also other contexts where this kind of support has been provided. As Ms Stryzhak mentioned, it is hard for the survivors, but even for the people who are trying to extend the help in terms of being able to provide the adequate response when these are cases that they have never been confronted with in the past. The fund, from that perspective, has the expertise and the kind of leverage due to its global nature to allow those type of exchanges as well.

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