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(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
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