Speeches

Fiona O’Donnell – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Fiona O’Donnell on 2014-04-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent steps she has taken to ensure that all children are protected from sexual violence in conflict zones.

Justine Greening

DFID is committed to tackling sexual violence against women and girls, with relevant programming in over 20 countries. For example, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) we have invested £60m to build security forces capable of better protecting women and girls from sexual violence and DFID has provided £21.6 million to protect women and children from sexual violence in humanitarian emergencies in a range of countries.