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Structures & Institutional Development Structures
Overview of Trends CONTINUED
Office of Public Counsel
for Victims
As of 14 October 2011, the Office of the
Public Counsel for Victims (OPCV) assisted
2,119 applicants and victims admitted by the
Chambers to participate in proceedings – a 69%
increase from 2010. While victims from CAR still
constitute the majority of those represented or
assisted by the OPCV (1,011), their percentage
against the total number decreased by 36%
(from 84% in 2010 to 48% in 2011). This year, the
DRC Situation has the second highest number
of victims represented and assisted by the Office
with 748 (35%). Victims in the Uganda and
Darfur Situations are respectively 6% and 1% of
the total. This year the OPCV also supported 222
victims from the Kenya Situation representing
10% of the total number of victims assisted.
Overall, across all Situations, male victims are
the majority of those represented or assisted by
the OPCV (63.5% of the total, 1.5% more than in
2010). Men are also the majority of applicants
and recognised victims in every Situation and
case. As in 2010, Sudan has the highest male/
female differential (72% difference). While last
year 44% of DRC victims assisted by the OPCV
were women, this year the figure is 30%. This
indicates that the significant increase in the
number of victims assisted and represented by
the OPCV in relation to the Situation in the DRC
(from 63 in 2010 to 748 in 2011) has primarily
involved male victims. While female victims
assisted and represented by the Office in relation
to the Situation in the DRC are eight times more
than in 2010 (28 in 2010 and 225 in 2011), male
victims are 15 times more than in 2010 (35
in 2010 and 523 in 2011). In 2011, 42% of the
victims from CAR are women compared with
39% last year.
<strong>Gender</strong>-based crimes were reported by 70%
of the female victims from CAR being assisted
by the OPCV. In DRC and Uganda, 10% of female
victims reported crimes of sexual violence and
rape. In Kenya, 15% of female victims reported
sexualised crimes. With the exception of Kenya
for which this figure was not available in 2010,
the percentages of female victims reporting rape
and sexual violence in the different Situations
are the same as in 2010. 253
There are nine professional and one general
service posts within the OPCV, none of which
is vacant. While in 2010 women comprised
the majority of staff and occupied all the three
senior posts (one P5 and two P4), this year
women occupy four out of the nine professional
posts and two out of three senior posts (one P5
and one P4). This year, GRULAC is not represented
in the Office and 50% of the 10 staff members
are from WEOG. In 2010, all the regions were
represented in the Office and WEOG appointees
were three out of the nine filled posts.
253 This year, no information about the number of victims
represented and assisted by the OPCV by Case, their
gender breakdown, and the type of crimes reported by
Situation and by Case was made available to the Women’s
Initiatives for <strong>Gender</strong> Justice.
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