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19 March 2020

Thematic Focus: Gender Issues

Opportunities:

Webinar: Room for Women and Girls: Female Voices from Refugees and Migrants in Serbia, 26 March 2020 [info]

CFPs: DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
- Contributions sought for two special issues in this open access journal: 1) Entanglements of Gender, Nationalism, and (Anti-)Migration in Contemporary Europe; 2) Changing Surroundings and Gender: Gendered Experiences and Gender-Sensitive Support in Migration Contexts. Submit abstracts for both by 1 April 2020.

CFP: Gender, Violence and Forced Migration [info]
- Contributions to this research topic may be submitted to either Frontiers in Human Dynamics or Frontiers in Political Science (both are open access). Deadline for abstracts is 21 April 2020.

Blog posts & press:

Beijing Declaration Turns 25: A Time to Celebrate or a Cause for Concern for Displaced Women and Girls? (IDMC Blog, March 2020) [text]

"Roundup: Women and Girls in Disasters and Crisis Response," The New Humanitarian, 6 March 2020 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Call for a Global Response (Equality Now, March 2020) [access]
- Follow link for global report as well as regional analyses. See also related news story.

Gender-based Asylum Claims and Non-refoulement: Articles 60 and 61 of the Istanbul Convention (Council of Europe, Feb. 2020) [access]
- Note: The Istanbul Convention is short for the "Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and
Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence."

Reporting on Gender-based Violence in Humanitarian Settings: A Journalist's Handbook, 2nd ed. (UNFPA, March 2020) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on the Arab region. Available in English and Arabic.

"South Sudanese Refugee Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Torture: Health and Justice Service Responses in Northern Uganda," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 17, no. 5 (March 2020) [open access]

"Torture and Sexual Violence in War and Conflict: The Unmaking and Remaking of Subjects of Violence," Review of International Studies, vol. 46, no. 2 (April 2020) [open access]

"Turkish Daily Press Framing and Representation of Syrian Women Refugees and Gender-Based Problems: Implications for Social Integration," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, vol. 18, no. 1 (2020) [Academia]

*UNHCR Gender Equality Toolkit (UNHCR, Feb. 2020) [text]

Unseen Victims: Why Refugee Women Victims of Gender-Based Violence Do Not Receive Assistance in the EU (HEUNI, Feb. 2020) [text]

Women and Girls in Internal Displacement (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, March 2020) [text]
- See also related media release.

Women’s Leadership in Humanitarian Crises and Conflicts: A Collection of Case Studies (ActionAid, Feb. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

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