11 February 2023

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues

Opportunities:

Panel discussion & book Launch: Human Rights and Gender Equality for Refugee Women, Lawson, Australia, 26 February 2023 [info]

CFP: International Journal of Refugee Law [info]
- Contributions sought for a thematic issue on the "legal aspects of gender in refugee protection." Submit abstracts by 31 March 2023

Blog posts & press:

Afghan women affected by Taliban bans on work and study fear for their futures (UNHCR, Jan. 2023) [text]

Denmark, Sweden Offer Protection to All Women, Girls from Afghanistan - EU Member States Should Follow as Taliban Crackdown Continues (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2023) [text]
- Note: The EUAA's latest country guidance on Afghanistan "concludes that women and girls are at risk of persecution under the Taliban and, therefore, are in general eligible for refugee status in Europe." 

Effectiveness of ARCHES intervention for reducing reproductive coercion in humanitarian setting (ELRHA Project Blog, Jan. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on Bangladesh.

Rekindling feminist approaches to legal displacement research: Introducing the 2023 blog series of the RLI Working Group on Feminist Theory and Displacement (RLI Blog, Jan. 2023) [text]
- The first post in this series is "Feminism as Method: How do we do Gender in International Refugee Law?"

Reports & journal articles:

Creating a Gender-Equitable and Inclusive Response to Gender-Based Violence in Kenya (Women's Refugee Commission, Feb. 2023) [text]

"Deporting Jane Doe: When Immigrant Crime Victims Fall Through the Cracks of the Law Designed to Protect Them," Belmont Law Review, vol. 9, no. 2 (2022) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Gender-based violence before, during, and after cyclones: slow violence and layered disasters," Disasters, vol. 45, no. 4 (Oct. 2021) [postprint]
- Note: The embargo on accessing the full-text of this document has ended. Focuses on Bangladesh.

"A Mother’s Choice: Undocumented motherhood, waiting and smuggling in the Tunisian–Libyan borderlands," Trends in Organized Crime, Latest Articles, 27 Jan. 2023 [free to read via DIIS]

"Nations, Shadow Borders, and the Production of Gender in the Present," Border Crossing, vol. 13, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

"'Nevertheless She Persisted': Confronting the Silencing and Reproduction of Gender-Based Violence among U.S. Asylum Seekers," Victims & Offenders: An International Journal of Evidence-based Research, Policy, and Practice, vol. 18, no. 1 (2023) [free full-text]

"Refugee Women and the Gendered Violence of Australia’s Extraterritorial Asylum Regime on Nauru," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3 (Sept. 2022) [free full-text

"Sexual and reproductive health knowledge among adolescent Syrian refugee girls displaced in Lebanon: The role of schooling and parental communication," PLOS Global Public Health 3(1): e0001437 (Jan. 2023) [open access]

"Women Refugees and Their Unrecognised Plights in International Refugee Law Regime: A Critical Analysis," Indian Journal of Law and Justice, vol. 13, no. 1 (2022) [full-text]

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