Thematic Focus: Gender Issues

Reports:

Barriers to Gender Based Violence (GBV) health services in humanitarian settings during COVID-19: A desk review from Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh), Iraq & Northeast Nigeria (Global Health Cluster, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Gender Dimensions of Forced Displacement: Findings from New Empirical Analysis (JDC Quarterly Digest (Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement, Dec. 2021) [text]

The Gender Dimensions of Forced Displacement: A Synthesis of New Research (World Bank & UNHCR, Jan. 2022) [text]

- See also this related policy brief and visit the programme's web page to access analyses of policies relating to refugees and internal displacement as well as a series of commissioned research papers. 

Gestión de casos con personas sobrevivientes de violencia basada en género en contexto de movilidad humana: Procedimiento operativo estándar (Grupo de Trabajo sobre Personas Refugiadas y Migrantes, ) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Venezuelans in Ecuador.

Refugee Women: Unpacking Gender-based Violence - Event Report (World Refugee & Migration Council, Dec. 2021) [text]

- See also the video recording of the event.

Stuck in Uncertainty and Exposed to Violence: The Impact of US and Mexican Migration Policies on Women Seeking Protection in 2021 (Women’s Refugee Commission & Instituto para las Mujeres la Migración, Feb. 2022) [access]

- Follow link for report and supplementary resources.

"That never happens here": Sexual and gender-based violence against men, boys and/including LGBTIQ+ people in humanitarian settings (Norwegian Red Cross & ICRC, Feb. 2022) [text]

‘We want to be strong, but we don’t have the chance’: Women’s experiences of seeking asylum in the UK (British Red Cross, Jan. 2022) [access]

Journal articles:

"The case of migrant women from the Central American Northern Triangle: How to prevent exploitation and violence during the crossing," Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, vol. 64, no. 2 (2021) [open access]

"Development and Testing of a Community-Based Intervention to Address Intimate Partner Violence among Rohingya and Syrian Refugees: A Social Norms-Based Mental Health-Integrated Approach," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 21 (Nov. 2021) [open access]

"Forced migration and reproductive rights: Pregnant women fleeing Venezuela," ACDI: Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional, no. 15 (2022) [open access]

"Huida inmovilizada en Tijuana: desplazamiento forzado de mujeres mexicanas hacia Estados Unidos," Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals, no. 129 (2021) [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Gender Issues - Pt. 1 (19 Jan. 2022)

- Thematic Focus: Gender Issues - Pt. 2 (19 Jan. 2022)