The ‘360’ medico-legal approach is a term coined by LAW to describe a system of responding to reports of sexual violence in which everyone the victim interacts with has specialised experience in dealing with sexual violence cases.
The ‘360’ medico-legal approach is a term coined by LAW to describe a system of responding to reports of sexual violence in which everyone the victim interacts with has specialised experience in dealing with sexual violence cases. The entire ‘360’ circle of response providers include medical practitioners providing initial care and response, police officers, legal aid providers, criminal investigations department staff, prosecutors and the judiciary.
The ‘360’ model involves three interlinked systems for responding to reports of sexual violence:
LAW is working with government partners in Somalia on implementing this approach.
LAW organised a ‘360′ training’ for legal responders to sexual violence from Somalia in June 2015. The training was co-run by the International Institute for Criminal Investigations (IICI). The training culminated in participants from Puntland agreeing to establish a ‘360’ gender-based violence unit to better investigate, prosecute and convict perpetrators of sexual violence crimes.