25 September 2025

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues - Pt. 1

Opportunity:

Seminar: Penalties against Women Seeking (International) Protection," Online, 10 November 2025 [info
- Note: "This will be the fifth in a series of free online seminars hosted by the Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) network on the theme of 'Refuge in a cold climate: the impact on women'." See below for recordings of previous seminars in this series. 

Short pieces (related to recent US legal decisions):

In Immigration Decision K-E-S-G-, a Break with Precedent Turns Back the Clock on Women’s Rights (Just Security, Sept. 2025) [text]

Trump Slams the Door on Women and Families (CGRS, Sept. 2025) [text]
- References Matter of S-S-F-M- and Matter of R-E-R-M- & J-D-R-M-. See also related Tahirih Justice Center update.

Reports:

Baseline field survey study for “Promoting socioeconomic recovery and resilience of Internally Displaced and Returnee Women and Girls in Northern Mozambique” (UN Women, Sept. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Comprehensive information and orientation programmes: A gender-responsive approach for supporting the empowerment of women on the move (IOM & UN Women, Sept. 2025) [text]

Evaluation of UNHCR’s approach to gender-based violence (GBV) prevention, risk mitigation and response, EVO/2025/09 (UNHCR, May 2025) [access]
- Follow the link for the report, summary, annexes and management response.

Gender Sensitivity in Asylum Interviews, Online, 30 April 2025 [access]
- Follow link for PDFs of presentations, supplemented by a bibliography of additional related resources.

“I Starve Myself So My Children Can Eat”: The Gendered Impacts of Food Insecurity and Famine in Gaza (Women's Refugee Commission, Sept. 2025) [text]

Migrant women in transit across South America (Mixed Migration Centre, Sept. 2025) [access]
- Available in English and Spanish.

Protection Landscape for Returnee Women and Girls: Afghanistan (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]

Resettled Syrian Women and Food Security in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada, During COVID-19: Personal Reflections on a Photovoice Participatory Study, COVID-19 and Food Security Research Brief, no. 13 (Hungry Cities Partnership, 2025) [text]

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