United Nations Victims' Rights Advocate: Annual Report 2019

This is the French edition of the 2019 annual report of the Office of the Victims' Rights Advocate (OVRA), led by Jane Connors, on the support the United Nations gives to victims of sexual exploitation and abuse by its personnel. It was published in 2020 and posted by BINUH.

The report sets out the UN framework for victims' rights, the office's field work and advocacy, and a roadmap for 2020. It records the office's mapping of support services, with information gathered in 13 countries, and warns that COVID-19 restrictions were already disrupting contact with victims and the projects supported by the trust fund for victims.

Haiti is one of the 13 countries in the mapping pilot and one of the countries the Advocate visited. In Haiti, the Senior Victims' Rights Officer sits in BINUH with a system-wide role and coordinates legal aid so that victims can settle paternity and child support claims, and keeps them informed of their cases.

The officer also kept going a UN country team project launched in 2018 that gives material, educational, psychosocial and livelihood support to victims and to children born of sexual exploitation and abuse. In March 2020 there were two Senior Victims' Rights Officers in the field, in Haiti and South Sudan.