Thematic Focus: Women

Last minute event:

Lecture: "The Battle for Equality in Refugee Law: The Resistance to Protection of Women and Children," New Orleans, 19 March 2015 [info]

Publications:

Consequences of Evicting Widows: Displacement and Women's Housing, Land and Property Rights in the Central African Republic (NRC, Feb. 2015) [text]

Gender and Migration: An Introduction and a Conversation (Border Criminologies & COMPAS Blogs, March 2015) [text]
- New joint blog series, with posts uploaded to both blogs every Friday until the end of June.  Posts are tagged "gender."

"Gender at the Intersection of International Refugee Law and International Criminal Law," Journal of International Criminal Justice, vol. 12, no. 5 (2014) [free full-text]

Towards Alternate Approaches for Assessing Domestic Violence Asylum Claims (SSRN, Dec. 2014) [text]

Violence against Women and Girls, Joint Committee on Human Rights (UK Parliament, Feb. 2015) [text]
- See esp. section 7 on "Immigration and Asylum."  See also related summary from Asylum Aid.

Women & Girls: Safe Spaces: A Guidance Note Based on Lessons Learned from the Syria Crisis (UNFPA, March 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]

Women Seeking Asylum: Closing the Protection Gap (openDemocracy, March 2015) [text]

Women’s Asylum News, no. 129 (Jan./Feb. 2015 [full-text]
- Lead article is "Set Her Free: Ending the Detention of Women who Seek Asylum."

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Women (12 Feb. 2015)

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