{"id":32881,"date":"2017-02-28T09:55:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T09:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/icc-president-visits-lra-war-victims-in-uganda\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T09:55:10","slug":"icc-president-visits-lra-war-victims-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/icc-president-visits-lra-war-victims-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC president visits LRA war victims in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Judge Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi has today begun her visit to victims of the Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army rebels benefiting from Trust Fund&#8217;s assistance projects in Northern Uganda.}<\/p>\n<p>Ms Fernandez arrived in the country on February 23 at the invitation of the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV), an independent body associated with the ICC.<\/p>\n<p>She is accompanied by the board members and the Director of the TFV.<\/p>\n<p>The TFV provides assistance to victims and their families in ICC situation countries through programmes of psychological rehabilitation, physical rehabilitation and material support.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Fernandez first visited Awach Sub-county headquarters in Gulu District this morning where she is interacting with over 100 war victims from the districts of Omoro, Amuru and Nwoya benefiting from TFV project. <\/p>\n<p>In the four districts, ICC funded Gulu Women&#8217;s Economic Development and Globolization [GWED-G], an NGO supporting a total of 1,427 LRA war victims.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Fernandez will later visit Lukodi village in Bungatira Sub-county where 54 rrsidents were massacred allegedly under the command of former LRA rebel commander Dominic Ongwen in May 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ongwen is currently at ICC Detention centrE in The Netherlands facing 70 counts of charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity he allegedly committed in northern Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 44,368 (26,264 Females and 18,104 males) have benefited under TFV. Of those figures, 35,460 victims were in the DRC and 8,908 in Uganda.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18518 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/latest002_pix-13.jpg\" alt=\"The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) judge Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi (L) at Awach Subcounty headquarter in Gulu District. \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Daily Monitor <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Judge Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi has today begun her visit to victims of the Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army rebels benefiting from Trust Fund&#8217;s assistance projects in Northern Uganda.} Ms Fernandez arrived in the country on February 23 at the invitation of the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV), an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2481],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-monitor"],"bylines":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32881"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32881"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}