19th August 2026
- Put survivors’ safety, dignity and agency at the centre of reporting, including when conducting interviews and deciding how they will be identified.
- Use trauma-aware interviewing practices and obtain informed consent throughout the reporting process.
- Verify information rigorously without reproducing assumptions that question survivors’ credibility or reinforce victim-blaming.
- Use precise, sensitive language and avoid unnecessary details, stereotypes or sensationalist framing.
- Place individual cases within their broader social and structural context, including the gender inequalities and intersecting forms of discrimination that shape sexual violence.
- Show survivors as more than the violence they experienced, including their agency, support networks and paths towards redress.