This round-up includes recent reports and journal articles (2021-2022) that
focus on a range of issues relating to reproductive health and reproductive
rights–including but not limited to abortion, contraception and pregnancy–in a
variety of settings and countries/regions.
"Access to female contraceptives by Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh,"
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, no. 99 (2021) [open access]
- Authors (4) = Bangladesh (3, incl. lead), Australia (1)
"Access to preventive sexual and reproductive health care for women from
refugee-like backgrounds: a systematic review," BMC Public Health,
22:403 (Feb. 2022) [open access]
- Authors (4) = Australia
"At the Borders of the Body Politic: Fetal Citizens, Pregnant Migrants, and
Reproductive Injustices in Immigration Detention," American Political Science Review, vol. 116, no. 1 (2022) [Academia]
- Author = US
"Barriers to Male Condom Use in Rohingya Refugee Camps in Bangladesh: A
Qualitative Study," The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, vol. 2
(July 2022) [open access]
- Authors (3) = Australia (lead), Bangladesh (2)
"Challenges of Reproductive Health Management in the Camps of Internally
Displaced Persons: A Systematic Review,"
Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences, vol. 31, no. 1 (2021) [open access]
- Authors (2) = Iran
"Coming of age: a qualitative study of adolescent girls’ menstrual
preparedness in Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and
Jordan," Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, vol. 30, no. 1
(2022) [open access]
Authors (5) = Palestine/Norway (lead), Palestine (2), Norway (2)
"Community perceptions of the impact of war on unintended pregnancy and
induced abortion in Protection of Civilian sites in Juba, South Sudan,"
Global Public Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and
Practice, vol. 17, no. 9 (2022) [open access]
- Authors (6) = US (4, incl. lead), South Sudan (2)
"Comparison of Clinical Characteristics and Pregnancy and Neonatal Outcomes
Between Turkish Citizens and Syrian Refugees with High-Risk
Pregnancies," Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, vol. 24,
no. 5 (Oct. 2022) [open access]
- Authors (4) = Turkey
"Conflict-Induced Displacement of Ukrainian Women, Pregnancy, and the Women,
Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in Poland,"
International Studies Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]
- See also related Reuters
article.
- Author = UK
Contraceptive Services in Humanitarian Settings and in the
Humanitarian-Development Nexus (WRC, IAWG & FP2030, March 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and French. See also related summary and donor brief.
"A Cross-Sectional Quantitative Study on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Knowledge and Access to Services of Arab and Kurdish Syrian Refugee Young
Women Living in an Urban Setting in Lebanon," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 18 (Sept. 2021) [open access]
- Authors (3) = Germany
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and Its Devastating Implications
for Immigrants’ Rights (Bill of Health Blog, Sept. 2022) [text]
- See also related Human Rights First opinion.
"Ending Coerced Sterilization in Immigration Detention,"
Univ. of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy (Forthcoming 2023)
[preprint]
- Focuses on the US. See also two earlier articles published in the
Human Rights Brief that address this issue, here
and
here.
- Author = US
"Ethical and Global Health Perspectives on Obstetric Healthcare and Safe
Abortions in Refugee and Internally Displaced Populations," Carolina Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine, vol. 1, no. 1 (2021) [open access]
- Author = US
"Experiences of pregnant people affected by natural disasters: a qualitative
systematic review protocol," JBI Evidence Synthesis, vol. 20, no.
9 (Sept. 2022) [free full-text]
- Authors (3) = Japan
"Experiencias en el acceso a servicios de salud sexual de personas migrantes
haitianas durante su tránsito a México," Huellas de la Migración, vol. 6, no. 12 (2021) [open access]
- Authors (3) = Mexico
"Forced migration and reproductive rights: Pregnant women fleeing Venezuela,"
ACDI: Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional, no. 15 (2022) [open access]
- Author = US
"How the U.S. Government Fails to Protect Migrant Women's Reproductive Rights
in Detention Centers," Hastings Journal on Gender and the Law,
vol. 33, no. 1 (2022) [full-text]
- Author = US
"Knowledge, attitude and practice of emergency contraception amongst
Healthcare Workers in IDP camps and Host Community Clinics in Jere and
Maiduguri Metropolitan Local Government Areas, Borno State, Nigeria," Kanem Journal of Medical Sciences, vol. 15, no. 1 (2021) [open access]
- Authors (5) = Nigeria
Menstrual Hygiene Management in the Refugee Context: Learning from Piloted
Interventions in East Africa, RLI Working Paper, no. 60 (Refugee Law
Initiative, 2022) [text]
"Mothers, babies, and abortion at the border: Contradictory U.S. policies, or
targeting fertility?," Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol. 39, no. 8 (Dec. 2021) [free full-text]
- Author = US
"Perinatal and Neonatal Outcomes in Immigrants from Conflict-Zone Countries: A
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies," Frontiers in Public Health, 11 March 2022 [open access]
- Authors (6) = Norway (2, incl. lead), Iran (3), Denmark (1)
"Period poverty: menstrual health hygiene issues among adolescent and young
Venezuelan migrant women at the northwestern border of Brazil," Reproductive Health, 18:238 (Nov. 2021) [open access]
- Authors (5) = Brazil
"'A person who does not have money does not enter': a qualitative study on
refugee women’s experiences of respectful maternity care," BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 22:748 (Oct. 2022) [open access]
- Authors (3) = Lebanon
""Physician complicity in human rights violations: Involuntary sterilization
among women from Mexico and Central America seeking asylum in the United
States," Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, vol. 89 (July 2022)
[open access]
- Authors (4) = US
"The Potential of Self-Managed Abortion to Expand Abortion Access in
Humanitarian Contexts," Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 13
Aug. 2021 [open access]
- Authors (9) = US (5, incl. lead), DRC (1), Kenya (3)
Practical guidelines on psychosocial health and wellbeing: Pregnant women and
women with babies (International Centre for Migration, Health and Development,
May 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]
"Pregnancy complications among refugee women: A systematic review," Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, vol. 100, no. 4 (April 2021) [free full-text]
- Authors (4) = Denmark
"Pregnant on the Other Side of the Border," Rolling Stone, 23 July 2022
[text]
"A qualitative study on health care providers’ experiences of providing
comprehensive abortion care in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh," Conflict and Health, 15:6 (Jan. 2021) [open access]
- Authors (5) = Sweden
"Refugee and Internally Displaced Women's Abortion Knowledge, Attitudes and
Practices: Addressing the Lack of Research in Low- and Middle-Income
Countries," International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, vol. 46, suppl. 1 (Dec. 2020) [open access]
- Authors (2) = US
"Refugee women's experiences with contraceptive care after resettlement in
high-income countries: A critical interpretive
synthesis," Contraception, vol. 108 (April 2022) [open access]
- Authors (6) = US
"Reproductive health among Venezuelan migrant women at the north western
border of Brazil: A qualitative study,"
Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 4 (2021) [open access]
- Authors (5) = Brazil
"A review of the literature on sexual and reproductive health of African
migrant and refugee children," Reproductive Health, 18:81 (April 2021)
[open access]
- Authors (6) = Ghana (lead), Canada (4), Nigeria (1)
"Risk factors for miscarriage in Syrian refugee women living in non-camp
settings in Jordan: results from the Women ASPIRE cross-sectional
study," Conflict and Health, 16:32 (June 2022) [open access]
- Authors (8) = Jordan (5, incl. lead), US (3)
"Safe abortion within the Venezuelan complex humanitarian emergency:
understanding context as key to identifying the potential for digital
self-care tools in expanding access," Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, vol. 29, no. 3 (2022) [open access]
- Authors (2) = Canada/Switzerland (lead), Canada
"A Scoping Review to Assess Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes,
Challenges and Recommendations in the Context of Climate Migration," Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 15 Oct. 2021 [open access]
- Authors (9) = UK (5, incl. lead), Ireland (2), US (1), Germany (1)
"Sexual and reproductive health outcomes for forcibly displaced persons living
in urban environments in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review
protocol," JBI Evidence Synthesis, vol. 20, no. 10 (Oct. 2022) [free full-text]
- Authors (10) = Canada
"Sexual Violence-Related Pregnancy Among Internally Displaced Women in an
Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Northeast Nigeria," Journal of Interpersonal Violence, vol. 36, nos. 9&10 (May 2021) [ResearchGate]
- Authors (7) = South Sudan (lead), US (1), Nigeria (4), Pakistan (1)
"A Systematic review of sexual and reproductive health needs, experiences,
access to services, and interventions among the Rohingya and the Afghan
refugee women of reproductive age in Asia," WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health, vol. 11, no. 1 (2022) [open access]
- Authors (2) = Bangladesh/Australia (lead), Australia
"Venezuelan migrants and access to contraception in Colombia: A mixed research
approach towards understanding patterns of inequality," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 3 (2021) [open access]
- Authors (5) = Colombia
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