Beyond Promises: Transformative Reparations through a Gender-Inclusive Lens – PORTUGUESE

Gender-inclusive reparations offer practitioners and policy makers an opportunity to reckon with institutional failures and biases and provide recognition and acknowledgement of the hidden harms of gender-based violence.

This report analyzes past and current reparations programs in South Africa, Rwanda, The Gambia, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Guinea to examine what progress, if any, has been made towards more equitable gender outcomes in their reparations programs. The intention is for the findings of this report to be applied to future and current processes to develop more holistic, transformative results particularly for survivors of gender-based and conflict-related sexual violence. These violations are disproportionately experienced by women and marginalized communities and are too often minimized and dismissed in formal transitional justice mechanisms.

This research will demonstrate that gender-inclusive reparations offer an opportunity to rectify the injustices endured by women in conflict and under authoritarian regimes, as well as the systemic conditions that facilitated those injustices. The report concludes with comprehensive recommendations developed by victims and survivors on policies and programs countries can adopt that promote and embody gender-inclusion.