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<strong>Gender</strong> Training
Registry
Staff of the Victims Participation and Reparation
Section (VPRS) participated in four genderrelated
meetings between 6 July 2010 and 9
September 2011, of which two were in Kenya,
one was in Uganda and one was in The Hague.
Information regarding the extent and nature
of the training, the number of VPRS staff who
attended and the specific gender focus of the
training was not provided and as such it is
unclear whether these were meetings intended
to support and build the capacity building of
VPRS staff regarding gender issues.
On 26-27 May 2011, a Psychologist from
the Victims and Witness Unit delivered a
presentation on the ‘Challenges in developing
gender-sensitive witness and victim protection
in proceedings and programs’ at the ‘Expert
meeting on <strong>Gender</strong> and Witness and Victim
Protection’ organised by the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
(UNHCHR). She also participated in detailed
discussions on gender-specific challenges
regarding protection issues.
No further information on gender training
within the Registry was made available to the
Women’s Initiatives for <strong>Gender</strong> Justice.
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While the OTP provided a list of meetings to
which staff gave presentations or speeches, no
information was provided about the gender
training workshops and courses attended by OTP
staff for the purpose of developing their capacity
in this area.
According to information provided by the OTP,
between September 2010 and June 2011, OTP
staff participated in and gave presentations at the
following events:
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On 29 September – 1 October 2010, an OTP
senior staff member attended a ‘Precarious
Progress: UN Resolutions on Women, Peace and
Security’ working conference organised by the
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) at
the University of San Diego and co-convened
by the International Action Network on Small
Arms (IANSA), the NGO Working Group on
Women, Peace and Security, the United Nations
Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and
the Women's Initiatives for <strong>Gender</strong> Justice in
San Diego, US;
On 13-15 October 2010, OTP staff gave a
presentation on ‘Sexual Violence in the DRC’ at
the 3rd annual 'Marche Mondiale des Femmes’
in Bukavu, DRC;
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On 15-16 October 2010, a staff member
attended a ‘Proving International Sex Crimes’
international expert seminar co-organised
by the Forum for International Criminal and
Humanitarian Law, Yale University and the
University of Cape Town in New Haven, US;
254 Information as of 27 July 2011. Information provided by the
Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation Division, OTP.
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