AQOCI’s Comité québécois femmes et développement (Quebec committee on women and development, or CQFD) partnered with Digna to produce this fact sheet on supporting a survivor.
Survivors of sexual violence experience an incredibly difficult ordeal, which is made much more complex by the international context in which international cooperation organizations work. How can these organizations provide better support to a survivor of sexual violence? This brief gives a non-exhaustive picture of best practices for providing support medically, psychosocially and throughout the legal process. The present brief is divided as follows:
- Introduction: a survivor-centered feminist approach
- Planning
- Disclosure of sexual violence: helpful attitudes
- Medical accompaniment
- Psychosocial accompaniment
- Accompaniment throughout the legal process
- Return to Canada