Project Description

As efforts to support legal redress for survivors of mass rape intensify in Central and East Africa, Physicians For Human Rights' (PHR) – in collaboration with a number of local partners in the region – is working to improve the abilities of the health and legal communities to build prosecutions of sexual violence crimes. PHR’s goal is to dramatically increase local capacity for the collection of court-admissible forensic evidence of sexual violence to support prosecutions for these crimes. The Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones draws on PHR’s extensive expertise in documenting war crimes and providing forensic training to professionals in regions of conflict where mass crimes have been committed. Specifically, the program includes a series of cross-sectoral, collaborative training workshops for members of the health care, law enforcement, and legal communities. To assist with this project RTI International: (1) worked with PHR to revise pre/post training assessments, (2) continued analysis of pre/post training assessments, (3) worked with PHR to revise follow-up assessments of participants, and (4) analyzed follow-up assessment data.

Project Partners
Physicians for Human Rights
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