Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues

Short pieces:

Armed groups and forced migration of women (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, July 2025) [text]

- Focuses on the Americas.

Reports: 

Age, Gender and Diversity Accountability Report 2024: Leveraging the power of forcibly displaced women and girls (UNHCR, June 2025) [access]

A Cut Too Deep: US Foreign Aid Withdrawals and the Collapse of Protection for Women and Girls in Honduras (Women's Refugee Commission, July 2025) [text]

- See also related press release.

*Evaluación intermedia del programa conjunto: "Empoderando mujeres y niñas afectadas por la migración irregular y el desplazamiento forzado en El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras" (IOM & UNHCR, Feb. 2025) [text]

Gender Alert: Gendered Needs and Challenges of Afghans Returning from Iran and Pakistan (UN Women, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Gender Analysis Report on the Dynamics of Forced Displacement in the IGAD Region (IGAD, July 2025) [access]

- Available in English and French.

SUpporting STronger Access to INnovative Energy Solutions in Displacement Settings (SUSTAINED) (Mercy Corps et al., July 2025) [access]

- Focuses on Uganda.

Journal articles:

"Examining Types of Domestic Violence Against Afghan Women in Mashhad, Iran," Gender and Sustainability in the Global South, Ahead of Publication, 3 July 2025 [open access]

"Gendered Migration Patterns and Fertility Among Refugees En Route," Population, Space and Place, vol. 31, no. 5 (July 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Eritrean and Syrian Refugees in Germany.

"'I am a young Venezuelan woman who left her country': exploring the drivers of Venezuelan migration and how the migration experience impacts adolescent girls’ aspirations," BMC Public Health, 25:2410 (July 2025) [open access]

"The refugee waves and the continuum of violence experienced by Ukrainian refugee women in Bulgaria," Frontiers in Sociology, 14 July 2025 [open access]

"Sexual health of Syrian women in protracted forced displacement: the syndemic interplay of violence, war trauma, poor mental health and food insecurity," BMJ Public Health, vol. 3, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"Transgression: Afghan Refugee Women as gelumjum," SAGE Open, 7 May 2025 [open access]

- Focuses on Pakistan.

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1 (3 July 2025)

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 2 (3 July 2025)