Archive for the 'Refugee Asylum' Category
Survivors of human trafficking spoke at the U.N. recently as part of a new institutional effort to have their input on policymaking. Panelists said a major problem was not being seen as trafficking victims when they suffered their ordeals.
The U.N. has held hearings and sessions on human trafficking many times before, where professional advocates and [...]
Some immigrant women’s advocates are concerned that legislation, drafted by Canadian immigration authorities earlier this year, may be detrimental for some females wanting to move to Canada.
Bill C-45 would give Canadian visa officers the right to reject visa applications from live-in caregivers if they have any reason to suspect they will be exploited or mistreated [...]
Palestinian women in one of Lebanon’s largest refugee camps say that with no rights in the country or even within their own community, they feel they are treated “worse than dogs.” (MAP)
Offering a unique insight into life in one of 12 refugee camps in the country, Medical Aid for Palestinians, a British charity working for [...]
Last month UNHCR staff visited the detention centre at Pagani on the Greek Island of Lesvos. They were shocked at the conditions in the facility, where more than 850 people are held, including 200 unaccompanied children, mostly from Afghanistan.
The centre has a capacity of 250-300 people. The UNHCR staff described the condition of the centre [...]
Displaced Iraqi women are reluctant to return home, despite relatively improved security in the country and the tough conditions in camps, because of continuing uncertainties, says an NGO advocating for displaced people.
“Iraqi women will resist returning home, even if conditions improve in Iraq, if there is no focus on securing their rights as women and [...]
Female immigrants who have experienced domestic violence can now seek asylum in the United States, thanks to a decision made by the Obama administration in a recent immigration appeals court filing, the New York Times reported July 16.
The case involved a Mexican woman who said her husband had repeatedly raped her at gunpoint, held [...]
Rwandan refugee women in Uganda face particular hardships under a repatriation push that started in April, with a July 31 target date for completion, a local advocacy group finds. Second of three stories on women and the repatriation turmoil.
Rwanda’s post-conflict recovery has a number of impressive signposts.
One is the economy, which grew at an annual [...]
The U.S. government should reform immigration enforcement policies that inflict needless suffering on immigrant women and their families, a former immigration detention center nurse, a former detainee, and a group of leading human rights advocacy and research groups said at a Capitol Hill briefing.
Immigration detention is the fastest growing form of incarceration in the United [...]
Female internally displaced persons (IDPs) will again be able to learn job skills, take literacy classes and receive awareness programmes on reproductive health after the joint African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) helped reactivate women’s centres at an IDP camp in the Sudanese region.
UNAMID’s Gender Advisory Unit has worked with the North Darfur state [...]
Police urged to show more empathy
As many as half of women who have moved from Thailand to Finland are believed to be living “underground”, beyond the reach of social safety nets, according to a fresh report on how Thai women have adapted to Finnish reality.
A large proportion of the 800-1200 Thai women living in [...]
Many rape victims have escaped to Jordan but still don’t have access to treatment and counselling.
As though recoiling from her own memories, Khalida shrank deeper into her faded armchair with each sentence she told: of how gunmen apparently working for Iraq’s Interior Ministry kidnapped her, beat and raped her; of how they discarded her on [...]
Incessant violence in the eastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo could trigger a humanitarian crisis as efforts to deliver assistance to people already in dire need are hampered and more people flee into Goma from the war fronts with rebel forces, ActionAid is warning.
“Gunshots were heard all over Goma last night and [...]
New book describes how the federal government’s attitude to the trafficking of women for prostitution in Australia began to change just six years ago
UN reports calls South Asia hotbed of Child Trafficking
Prostitution harms more girls in Georgia USA in one month than are killed in car accidents in a year, say leaders of a campaign [...]
Far too often, women in the conservative Muslim community of this refugee camp have been considered as appendages of their male relatives, dependent on them even for their daily food rations.
For women refugees, being recognized in their own right is one of the protection benefits conferred by ID cards that are now being issued by [...]
The trafficking of girls from villages to cities in Nigeria is increasing and the state is powerless to stop the trade, officials told IRIN.
“The business of recruiting teenage girls as domestic help in rich and middle-class homes is booming despite our efforts to put a stop to it”, Bello Ahmed, head of the Kano office [...]
The UN refugee agency’s efforts to protect women and children refugees from violence throughout Central Europe came a step closer recently when Slovenia agreed to include refugees and asylum seekers in prevention and response mechanisms for those at risk.
At a ceremony in Ljubljana on World Refugee Day, the Slovenian government adopted UNHCR’s standard operating procedures [...]
Most women arriving in parts of the province of Kasai Occidental in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) among a new wave of some 27,000 deportees from Angola, have been sexually abused, a local health official said.
“There are many injured people and 80 percent of the women [who arrived] had been raped,” Pierre Didi Mpata, [...]
Women’s rights organizations namely, African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), Abantu for Development, Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE) and Christian Mothers Association of the Catholic Church have paid a visit to Liberian refugee women at the Buduburam refugee camp.
The purpose was to enable the women’s rights organisations express [...]
With little or no income, Iraqis in Jordan are under increasing pressure, heightening tension in households
A study published in March by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on the mental state of Iraqis in Jordan and Lebanon has pointed to mounting social and economic problems as the cause of increased domestic violence.
“Most families [...]
Home Office Appeals: Dubious Grounds
Asylum Aid has recently represented two appeal cases that were both successful in the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) court of appeal but then contested and appealed by the Home Office. These cases both highlight significant issues regarding the types of cases the Home Office are actively pursuing to appeal [...]
Recent postings- Uganda considers death sentence for gay sex in bill before parliament
- Leaders Respond To World AIDS Day – round up by kff.org
- Women’s Rights Are at the Core of Addressing the AIDS Pandemic says Inés Alberdi, UNIFEM Executive Director
- Gender discrimination, sexual violence and poverty are undermining global progress in tackling HIV/Aids, Amnesty International said on World Aids Day.
- 1st December 2009 was:
- 16 Days of Activism for the Elimination of Violence Against women – 25 November to 10 December
- Commit • Act • Demand: We CAN End Violence Against Women!
- 10th Anniversary Statement on the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
- UN expert calls for strengthened cooperation to intensify efforts to eliminate violence against women
- Denial of justice to rape survivors doomed to continue
- new on womensgrid
- Documenting Migration Event @ Gasworks Saturday 5th December
- Electric Landladies – Saturday 5th and 12 December 2009 – London
- Petition for anti sexism regulation closes 9th December 2009
- Major Gifts Manager – WOMANKIND Worldwide – 4th January 2010
- Staff Psychotherapist – Group (Female) – Women’s Therapy Centre – 31st December 2009
- women@thewell – 2 Female Support Worker (fixed term) – 11th December 2009
- Womens Health Matters Vacancy – 5th January 2010
- How I Became and Asylum Seeker – 3rd December Manchester – author faces deportation
- ‘Christmas Voices’ – A music, dance & poetry benefit, 5 December – Benefit
- Abortion Support Network Pro Choice ‘Happy Hour – Monday 7th December Clerkenwell
- new on women in london
- Current Services and Christmas Opening Times – London Irish Women’s Centre
- Christmas Bazaar – London Irish Women’s Centre – 11th December 2009
- Women’s Radio Group Online Broadcast 2nd December
- The Sojourner Project – new national project for women with no recourse to public funds – Eaves
- Courses at Hillcroft College for Women
- Team leader and Outreach Worker – Hillcroft College – 11th December 2009
- Outreach Workers – Hillcroft College For Women – 11th December 2009
- Head of Operations – Hillcroft College For Women – 14th December 2009
- Voluntary Trustees – Wandsworth Women’s Aid
- P/T Child Worker (Six month contract) – Wandsworth WA – 4th December 2009
