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#Victimparticipation is key to effectively fighting impunity.
The problem? They're often left out of justice processes.
📢 This week at the #EUNGOForum 2022, we’re advocating for amplifying victims’ voices.
▶️ Livestream: https://t.co/fD7Ai8WtaO#JusticeMatters #StopImpunity pic.twitter.com/LyUNgKGs3v
— Impunity Watch (@ImpunityWatch) December 14, 2022
Simply put, top-down approaches to #impunity don’t reflect victims' realities, such as the need for comprehensive #reparations.
📑 We’re LIVE at the #EUNGOForum discussing this. Find out more in our research with @InovasOrg: https://t.co/5F8HiHFACC (EN, AR, FR)#justicematters pic.twitter.com/dOMdrjPZWm
— Impunity Watch (@ImpunityWatch) December 14, 2022
Victims’ active participation in #justice processes is essential to tackle #impunity.
But how can their needs be integrated in the #EU’s responses to crises?
▶️Hear directly from them at our #EUNGOForum panel starting NOW: https://t.co/fD7Ai8WtaO#JusticeMatters #StopImpunity pic.twitter.com/WUvb30KOcu
— Impunity Watch (@ImpunityWatch) December 15, 2022
The EU-NGO Forum 2022
Impunity Watch will join discussions on the role of the EU, its member states and civil society in strengthening accountability, improving access to justice and protecting human rights defenders.
Panel title: Integrating justice needs and victims’ participation in the EU’s responses to crises and conflicts and in post conflict reconstruction
Description:
The active participation of victims and survivors in decision making on justice and accountability is considered essential to tackle impunity. Tackling impunity in all its forms is a requirement to effectively and sustainably respond to crisis and conflict, to ensure non-recurrence and human development. This linkage between the fight against impunity and peace and development has been firmly established by the UN and others (A/HRC/49/39, A/77/162). The important role of victims has been recalled in policy and standards (EU Policy Framework on TJ). In practice victims and survivors are, however, in many situations not at the table, their voices regularly ignored.
The panel aims to provide a space for victims and survivors to engage with policy makers on how to make victim participation a reality. The focus will be on the grassroots and panellists will provide ideas for change and inspiration for policy makers in how to tackle impunity. The panel will look at examples from different parts of the world, including Syria, Guatemala, Nepal and Kosovo. Panellists will reflect in particular on how the EU can integrate justice needs and involve victims, CSOs and HRDs, in order to ensure a comprehensive and holistic response to justice in crises and conflicts.
Moderator: Marlies Stappers, Executive Director at Impunity Watch
Speakers:
- Brice de Schietere, Acting Director, Integrated Approach for Security and Peace (ISP) Directorate, EEAS
- Mariam Alhallak, Chief Woman at the Ceasar Families Association, Syria
- Bekim Blakaj, Executive Director at the Humanitarian Law Center, Kosovo
- Ram Kumar Bhandari, Network of Families of the Disappeared/NEFAD, Nepal
- Lucia Xiloj, Indigenous human rights lawyer at Bufete Juridico de Rabinal, Guatemala
Languages: ENG – FR – ES
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