Internally displaced women: progress, challenges and the way ahead 2013, para. 38
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- Access to justice and accountability mechanisms remains limited and inadequate for most IDW. In some cases, women are constrained to use customary justice systems, which often discriminate against them and apply principles in contradiction with national and international standards. In others, formal justice mechanisms may also discriminate against women and therefore not provide the best outcome for IDW. The Special Rapporteur finds the most glaring gap to be in access to justice for survivors of sexual violence. Ensuring legal justice for survivors can be transformative because it sends a clear message rejecting impunity for this heinous crime. However, in some instances IDW not only lack access to effective remedies, but have themselves been charged when bringing forward allegations of rape by State security forces in camps. Conversely, legal aid, where available, has proven invaluable to IDW seeking access to justice for SGBV, as well as for other crimes and legal claims.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Internally Displaced Persons, Report to the HRC (2013), A/HRC/23/44, para. 38.
- Paragraph number
- 38
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