A/HRC/26/52 (b) The adoption of an objective and specific legal definition of victim that takes into account the Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law (resolution 60/147, annex); (c) The adoption of legislation to implement the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; and (d) 88. The establishment of a special fund for victims. From an institutional standpoint, the Independent Expert recommends: (a) The formulation of a national vision on victims of the crisis in the form of a countrywide programme, prepared in consultation with victims’ associations and relevant civil society organizations, which provides for specific actions, financial, material and human resources and a time frame that includes specific and realistic objectives. The programme should be adopted through a law enacted by a National Assembly that is representative of Ivorian political diversity, thereby adopting the situation of victims as a national cause; (b) The streamlining of State institutions and resources to provide assistance to victims, including enhanced synergy among the National Human Rights Commission, the National Programme for Social Cohesion, the Solidarity and Social Cohesion Observatory, the post-conflict assistance project and the Directorate for War Victims. As a moral and popular symbol of national unity and given its intersectoral dimension and its impact on society as a whole and on economic recovery, the situation of victims should be addressed by a national institution under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister; (c) The establishment of a single institution to receive victims’ complaints and grievances and provide them with the information they need to obtain medical, psychological, socioeconomic and legal assistance; (d) The decentralization of this national victims institution to enable victims throughout the country to express their grievances and concerns and receive replies suited to their local sociocultural context; and (e) The harmonization of available victim databases, ensuring that those run by the Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the National Programme for Social Cohesion, the Directorate for War Victims, the National Human Rights Commission and all other victim assistance systems are interconnected and are overseen by the central victim assistance institution. 89. From an operational standpoint, the Independent Expert recommends that the operational phase of the victim assistance programme be structured around the following three areas of support: (a) Medical and psychological care: (i) Immediate care for victims whose situation requires urgent attention, such as those still suffering from serious physical and psychological effects of physical violence and from the loss of their home or employment; (ii) Establishment throughout the country of accessible, free and confidential psychological and social services for victims of rape and sexual violence; (iii) Definition of categories of loss and trauma, publication of this information in order to demonstrate the scale of the harm caused by the crimes 18 GE.14-02949

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