...that their immediate basic needs are met, since CRSV can have devastating effects on victims/survivors’ lives, including their ability to earn a living and to provide for themselves.194 Reproductive health services. Women have gender and sex-specific needs.195 Sexual violence has distinct effects on women’s physical and mental health and psychosocial well-being. In particular, they face the additional risk of pregnancy, which may have adverse physical and psychological consequences, ranging from medical complications during pregnancy or labour to......stigmatisation and ostracism while pregnant or raising a child from rape.196 States party to an armed conflict should provide women who have been subjected to CRSV with access to reproductive health services, and ensure that their protection and care take into account their specific needs with regard to hygiene, ante- and post-natal care and gynaecological and reproductive health, including physiological factors that may heighten the risk of anaemia and mineral deficiencies.197 As regards POWs, detaining...

...remedial process’;100 Set up and adequately fund ‘prevention and early assistance centres, counselling services and temporary shelters’;101 Strengthen and expand existing services, ‘including shelters and counselling, for victims of gender-based violence’,102 so as to ensure their accessibility, and ‘increase the number of doctors and of functioning and properly equipped primary health centres and health sub-centres in tribal and rural areas’;103 Ensure equal access to health care facilities and reproductive health services that are affordable,104 adequate and culturally...

...reproductive health services for women in certain countries, in particular safe and legal abortion for rural women, women living in poverty, women with disabilities and women from ethnic or religious minorities. States should enhance women’s ‘access to sexual and reproductive health services, in particular safe and legal abortion and affordable contraceptives’.59 States should review their legislation on abortion and adapt it to protect women’s sexual and reproductive health.60 States should guarantee effective access to safe, legal...

...to comprehensive services for survivors of gender-based violence, ‘ensuring the full participation of and cooperation with’ non-governmental women’s organisations;229 Ensure that persons and organisations fighting for women’s rights and representing victims/survivors are protected against threats, harassment and reprisal.230 Humanitarian Response🔗 III.22 States must provide victims/survivors of CRSV with appropriate care🔗 In conflict-affected areas, access to essential services such as health care, including sexual and reproductive health services, is disrupted. Consequently, women and girls are at......reproductive health services and counselling, the issuance of official identification documents free of charge, family reunification measures and asylum procedures’. States should grant girl victims/survivors residence permits for an indefinite duration, in line with their best interests, ‘to enable access to a durable solution that is sustainable and secure in the long-term’.252 Training for health workers. Beyond the requirements of obligation III.8, States should incorporate comprehensive, mandatory, gender-responsive courses on women’s health and human rights, in...

...from torture or ill-treatment, ‘including forms of sexual violence and abuse’. Qualified medical personnel trained in and applying the Istanbul Protocol should be available in places where persons who have been deprived of their liberty are kept;308 Ensure the effective functioning of a free 24-hour State-funded helpline for women who are experiencing violence;309 Establish a database on the number of victims of torture and ill-treatment who have benefitted from health programmes.310 Reproductive health services. The Committee has identified...

...violence compared with other women and girls.42 To ensure that women and girls with disabilities are not excluded ‘from access to humanitarian support and services to keep them safe from violence and exploitation’,43 States should take an intersectional approach to disability inclusion in legislation, policies and programmes concerning emergency preparedness, response and recovery.44 This includes, but is not limited to, ‘prioritized access to disability-inclusive relief programmes, health services, sexual and reproductive health services, habilitation and...