15 December 2021

Thematic Focus: Gender Issues

Blog posts & press:

Gender-based violence survivors learn to rebuild engines as they rebuild lives (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the DRC.

How gender norms influence school enrollment and domestic work for Syrian refugee adolescents in Jordan (Development for Peace Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

Refugee women scale Atlas mountain to tackle gender violence (UNHCR, Dec. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Morocco.

Refugee women take the lead in combating gender-based violence (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on Malaysia.

UNHCR urges support to address worsening gender-based violence impact on displaced women and girls (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]

We interviewed 150 women migrants – revealing how their journeys involve peril at every turn (The Conversation, Nov. 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Allies, access and (collective) action: Young refugee women’s navigation of gendered educational constraints in Greece," DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"Better to be Raped than to be Killed": A Gendered Analysis of Internal Displacement in Burkina Faso, RID Working Paper, no. 5 (Researching Internal Displacement, Nov. 2021) [text]

Forced migration and sexual and gender-based violence: findings from the SEREDA project in the UK (Univ. of Birmingham, Nov. 2021) [text]
- See also related LSE British Politics and Policy blog post.

"Gendered aspects of distress migration: Taking note of Rohingya voices," DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"The impact of interventions to reduce risk and incidence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict states and other humanitarian crises in low and middle income countries: a systematic review," Conflict and Health, 15:86 (Nov. 2021) [open access]

In Harm's Way: Adolescent Girls in Northwest Syria: Survivors of Vulnerability, Inequality and Discrimination (Plan International, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Intersectionality and refugee women: The shortcomings of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum from an intersectional perspective (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Nov. 2021) [text]

"When does migration law discriminate against women?," AJIL Unbound, vol. 115 (2021) [open access]

The Women Peace and Security Index: A new lens on forced displacement (International Rescue Committee & Georgetown Univ., Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Women's Barriers to Access Humanitarian Services (Danish Refugee Council et al., Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

Protection and Empowerment of Displaced Women and Girls from Central America and Mexico: Using the MIRPS framework to protect, assist and empower, 7 Dec. 2021 [access]
- See also related press release and news story.

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