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  • TFV Publishes Spring Progress Report Online

    The TFV Spring Programme Progress Report on "Recognizing Victims and Building Capacity in Transitional Societies" is now available online (PDF).

    The TFV supports the most vulnerable victims under ICC jurisdiction with needs-based assistance. In so doing, it provides recognition to victims and an understanding that they have suffered the worst crimes in international law. The nature and breadth of these crimes are often such that the ICC’s judicial process cannot reach all those affected by violence. With its dual mandates to implement both Court-ordered and rehabilitation support, the TFV thus seeks to broaden this recognition....

    The full report is available to download here (PDF).

  • Elisabeth Rehn elected Chairperson for the Board of Directors at the Trust Fund for Victims

    On Tuesday, March 23, 2010 the newly elected Board of Directors of the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) unanimously nominated Ms Elisabeth Rehn as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors. A former Presidential candidate in Finland, member of the Finnish and European Parliaments, and former Minister of Defence in Finland, Ms Rehn brings special expertise to her new leadership role with her experience as the former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Republic of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and as the UN Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of Secretary-General in Bosnia and Herzegovina....

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