ICRC activities in Burundi, Lebanon, Mali, Niger, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria, and Special Appeals : Disability and Mine Action

L'objectif principal du CICR est d'empêcher que la population ne plonge davantage dans la pauvreté et la vulnérabilité.

The ICRC seeks to address the needs of all people affected by sexual violence in a multidisciplinary manner, working in partnership with the health ministry and the Burundi Red Cross. In 2020, it will focus on providing psychosocial care and counselling services to victims/survivors of violence, including sexual violence. Psychosocial support will be made available at seven primary-health-care centres – four of them in Bujumbura, the rest in different provinces – that the ICRC supports in coordination with the health ministry, and at five counselling centres – including three that it will start supporting in 2020. The ICRC will continue to train psychologists in caring for victims/survivors and raising awareness among community members. It will also continue to give financial assistance to a social service that provides temporary shelter to survivors/victims of violence, as well as to victims/survivors of sexual violence themselves, so they can put up or build livelihood activities. It will also work with National Society volunteers to organize dissemination sessions – on the consequences of sexual violence and the plight of those affected – for community leaders and authorities. Additionally, the ICRC will seek to include the issue of sexual violence in its dialogue with authorities and military and police personnel, in the framework of emphasizing the necessity of protecting people from abuses.