ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Association of Women Victims of War from the Republic of Srpska and the Section for the Protection of Women Victims of Torture and Rape –have access to women survivors and have gained their trust. It discusses that anti-victim discourse against Serb victims is local and global and reinforced by scholars, but also feminist activists and victims who are affiliated with other ethnic groups and who consider themselves as the only victims of conflict-related sexual violence. In the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, both these reasons, as well as donors' support, have influenced non-government organisations in assuming responsibilities from the state. The Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence insists on the importance of initiatives by the state and by civil society that cover the claims of all human rights and humanitarian law victims, regardless of their political affiliation, or that of the perpetrators.
