Global Survivors Fund

19/08/2026

GSF and the Вища школа публічного управління (High School of Public Governance of Ukraine) signed an agreement to develop and provide trainings to civil servants and officials who will work with survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in the country.

Signed on 17 August, this partnership strengthens the roll out of the Bardina Law (4067-IX).

Why does this training matter?

Because registering a violation of this nature calls for the ability to gather the information required from a survivor in a trauma-informed manner and without intruding on their privacy.

GSF will provide the training curriculum and trainers, and we will work closely with the High School's National Training Centre for the Prevention of Domestic and Gender-Based Violence to share the experience and lesson-learnt from our pilot project.

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Kyiv-Geneva, 18 August 2026 - The Global Survivors Fund (GSF) and the High School of Public Governance have signed a partnership and

17/08/2026

In Kampot province, Cambodia, survivors are taking part in ‘testimonial therapy’ with Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO). The sessions are organised in small groups of five, and there are five sessions for each group. Each participant works through what they suffered by sharing their testimony, and take time to process it and find ways to heal, with the help of psychologists.

The process ends with a public ceremony at the local pagoda, where the therapist reads each story aloud, exactly as the survivor asked for it to be shared. A monk blesses the stories. Students, community, and family members attend. This is a very public event where those present come to offer acknowledgement and support to the survivors.

At one such ceremony, each survivor who took part spoke of the immense reparative value the process represented for them.

14/08/2026

Sudan's war has driven millions across the border into Chad - among them women and girls who survived sexual violence at home, only to face renewed threats in displacement.

In a recent trip to Adre and Aboutenge refugee camps, our Executive Director Esther Dingemans met with survivors who have faced attacks while trying to secure even the most basic of necessities or while looking for work. Teenage girls left to be mothers themselves. Vulnerable people who have been left without any protection. The situation in the camps, she describes, is nothing short of a ‘mental health emergency.’

Read our Esther’s blog 👉https://www.globalsurvivorsfund.org/latest/articles/sudans-survivors-of-sexual-violence-need-our-urgent-attention/

12/08/2026

Une reconnaissance amplement méritée après des années de travail en faveur de la réparation et de la reconnaissance.

Félicitations à Asmaou Diallo, Présidente de ONG AVIPA, pour avoir reçu le Prix de la Solidarité des Femmes Défenseures des Droits Humains de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, décerné par le Mouvement des Femmes Défenseures des Droits Humains de l'Afrique de l'Ouest.

07/08/2026

¡Gran paso hacia el reconocimiento del derecho de las sobrevivientes!

La Corte Constitucional admitió la acción de inconstitucionalidad presentada por GSF en articulación con organizaciones de sobrevivientes, contra disposiciones de la Ley 2421 de 2024.

La acción cuestiona que la ley niegue el reconocimiento como víctimas y el acceso a la reparación a personas que sufrieron violencia sexual y reproductiva o fueron víctimas de reclutamiento forzado, por el hecho de haber sido vinculadas a grupos armados.
Ninguna persona debería estar excluida de la protección del Estado por las circunstancias en las que fue victimizada. Se presenta una oportunidad para corregir esta injusticia histórica.

¡Llamamos a todas las organizaciones a hacerse parte y presentar intervenciones antes del 19 de agosto!

06/08/2026

In Timor-Leste, dinamisadoras, or community mobilisers, travel across the country to support survivors of conflict-related sexual violence and their families. Many are survivors themselves.

From driving for eight hours to hiking to remote homes in the mountains, these women go above and beyond to be there for survivors: whether it be to explain their rights, help them with daily tasks, or just end a listening ear. Our project would have been impossible without them.

As dinamisadora Marquita put it, they are the ‘eyes and ears’ of the women in the community.

Learn more about their work: https://www.globalsurvivorsfund.org/latest/articles/dinamisadoras-timor-leste/

03/08/2026

3 August marks 12 years since the Yazidi genocide.

On this day, thousands of Yazidis were taken captive by ISIS and subjected to sexual violence, forced marriage, sexual slavery, and unimaginable loss.

In Sinjar, a memorial and garden now commemorate the victims of the genocide. Designed by survivors who joined our four-year project in northern Iraq, it serves as a space for survivors and the community to remember and come together.

30/07/2026

What can recognition look like?

For some survivors in Nigeria, it comes in the form of a certificate given at the start of our projects, recognising their status as survivors and rights-holders.

It is an act of validation, that their needs have been heard, and marks the start of meeting them, together.

16/07/2026

In 2014, journalist and survivor Jineth Bedoya Lima asked for a national day to remember victims of conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia. Now, survivors across the country commemorate the occasion.

Nearly 80 women gathered in Bogotá this year. A healing ritual opened the event with flowers, water. and fire before they shared a message: reparation isn't something given to survivors, but built with them.

Outside, the walls told their own story - covered with hand-painted textiles by survivors, each one representing a region or memory. Their piece of healings were now made visible.

Discover more about this year's celebration: https://www.globalsurvivorsfund.org/latest/articles/may-25th-in-colombia-to-repair-is-to-dignify-survivors/ -5717-4b91-a3ec-e24439d67d1b