Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative

"The Stabilisation Unit has recently been recruiting for experts to join a new team of experts, the creation of which altforms one strand of the Foreign Secretary’s wider initiative on preventing sexual violence in conflict announced on 29 May 2012.

"William Hague described ‘the establishment of a dedicated UK team devoted to combating and preventing sexual violence in conflict’ and explained that this team will be able to be deployed overseas at short notice to support efforts to gather evidence and testimony that can be used in investigations and prosecutions." Angelina Jolie helped launch and continues to work with the project.