Thematic Focus: Gender Issues

News:

Today is International Women's Day!  The official UN theme is "Equality for women is progress for all." Follow developments via ReliefWeb's Gender topic page and UNHCR's IWD page.

Publications: 

An 'I Do' I Choose: How the Fight for Marriage Access Supports a Per Se Finding of Persecution for Asylum Cases Based on Forced Marriage (ExpressO, 2014) [text]

*Forced to Flee: Women's Health and Displacement (MSF, March 2014) [text]

Girl, Disrupted (IDMC, March 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Health Promotion and Education among Refugee Women: A Literature Review," Journal of Social Change, vol. 6, no. 1 (2014) [full-text]

Life Can Change: Securing Housing, Land and Property Rights for Displaced Women (NRC, March 2014) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also this project's web page.

Nowhere to Go: Displaced and Returnee Women Seeking Housing, Land and Property Rights in South Sudan (NRC, March 2014?) [text]

Too Much Pain - Female Genital Mutilation & Asylum in the European Union: A Statistical Update (UNHCR, March 2014) [text]

"'You Keep Yourself Strong': A Discourse Analysis of African Women Asylum Seekers' Talk about Emotions," Journal of International Women's Studies, vol. 15, no. 1 (2014) [open access]

*updated

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Gender Issues (17 Feb. 2014)


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