UK acts to stop sexual violence in conflict
22 Apr 2014 12:29 PM
The British Embassy
in Kyrgyzstan launched poster competition on preventing sexual
violence.
On
April 17, 2014, the British Embassy held a press-briefing at the Institute of
Public Policy (IPP) to launch a poster competition as a part of the “End
Sexual Violence in Conflict” initiative.
The
UK’s Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) was launched by UK
Foreign Secretary William Hague with the Special Envoy of the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, in May 2012. The Initiative aims to
end the culture of impunity for sexual violence in conflict and to increase the
number of perpetrators brought to justice both internationally and
nationally.
The
press-briefing at IPP launched a competition for citizens of Kyrgyzstan aged 15
years or over to design a poster conveying one of the key messages of the
campaign. The designers of the best posters will be awarded with valuable
prizes and their works will be displayed during the Global Summit to End Sexual
Violence in Conflict, which will take place in London in June, 2014. Upon
completion of the contest there will be a nomadic exhibition at several
universities of Kyrgyzstan.
The
participants of the event included UK Ambassador Judith Farnworth, press
officers of the Ministry of Youth, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the
Ombudsman’s Office and NGOs, as well as experts in the sphere of sexual
and gender-based violence. Aleksei Vysogorov, head of the art platform,
Design.kg, told the audience about the rules of the poster
contest.