Archive for the 'Refugee' Category
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 [...]
Zarine Rentia died last Wednesday in hospital in Gujarat after being diagnosed with terminal heart cancer in the UK just four days before she had to leave her Stoke Newington home.
It is believed that the cancer was brought on by Fanconi-Bickel Syndrome disease, which affects less than one in a million children and made [...]
Asylum Law and Female Genital Mutilation: Recent developments
CRS Report for Congress
Yule Kim Legislative Attorney, America Law Division
February 2008
This research paper looks at how the federal courts and Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in America classify Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a form of persecution. The paper discusses legal arguments that can be applied [...]
A call for direct action!
Leading women’s groups, charities and other organisations including Southall Black Sisters, Amnesty International UK, Oxfam (GB) National Women’s Aid (England), Imkaan, Newham Asian Women’s Project, Women’s Resource Centre, Roshni (Sheffield) and many others, are calling for a day of mass action on 23 April 2008, to protest against the existence of [...]
* Women and children behind bars in the UK.
* Hear their voices. Show you care.
* With Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter
The heartbreaking and heroic journeys of women and children who have sought refuge in the UK, brought to life through personal testimony by refugees and performance by leading actors.
Due to overwhelming response to the sell [...]
A new anthology of letters and notes by Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Albanian women brings together for the first time a female point of view from all sides of the brutal wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
The book, entitled “A Woman’s Side of War”, collects 120 stories by women who witnessed wars [...]
Recent postings- Murder of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova condemned
- Three publications from AWID’s Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms
- Rabbanit? Rabbah? Maybe just plain Rabbi? What should be the title of an Orthodox woman who happens to also be a rabbi?
- Inquiry urged after Sudan women flogged for wearing trousers
- Accountability To Women Could Upset Business As Usual
- Fight Sexism to Help Young Mothers – South Africa
- Soldiers Who Rape, Commanders Who Condone: Sexual Violence and Military Reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Worrying increase in gang rape say police in Angola
- Repatriation of Rwandan Women Refugees in Uganda could increase hardships
- HRW condemns Rwanda’s draft law on HIV tests and sterilisation
- Gender Wire
- AFRICA: Organic Farming Could be Answer to Food Insecurity
- EDUCATION: Mother Tongue Absent in Thousands of Classrooms
- Q&A: 'Farmers Can Gain From Crisis'
- DR-CONGO: Rape by Regular Army a Growing Problem, HRW Says
- PERU: Going to School Still a Feat for Rural Girls
- CUBA: What Schools Can and Cannot Do for Equality
- FILM: Graphically Condemning a "Barbaric and Horrific Punishment"
- ECONOMY: Accountability To Women Could Upset Business-As-Usual
- POLITICS-US: Sotomayor Poised Amid Senatorial Jousting
- Q&A: "My Boyfriend Insisted I Quit Dancing, My Answer Was No"
- new on womensgrid
- Natalya Estemirova
- A Woman of Substance Award – nominations close 31st July 2009
- Art Exhibition & Panel Discussion – Women in Conflict – 31st July and 1st August 2009
- Public Meeting: Margaret Prescod – Tell us about Obama, about US policy in Haiti & Honduras …
- Disproportionate number of children who are killed came from homes with domestic violence
- Lost daughters campaign
- Refused asylum seekers forced to eat from bins says Rowntree trust
- Four years on Tesco still stalling on South African women’s farm pay
- The words of God do not justify cruelty to women
- Irish Women Challenge Abortion Ban in European Human Rights Court
- new on women in london
- 4 vacancies - Refuge - 28th July 2009
- Female Community Outreach Officer - Kiran - 14th August 2009
- Volunteer Co-ordinator - Jewish Women’s Aid - 10th August 2009
- 2 vacancies - Eaves - 17th and 22nd July 2009
- Public investment in childcare : who cares, who pays? - Daycare Trust - 17th November 2009
- Feminism in London - conference organised by London Feminist Network - 10th October 2009
- GLDVP Newsletter - July 2009
- GLDVP Stella Project advanced training for experienced workers - 6th August and 8th September 2009
- Being a mum has ‘devastating’ impact on earnings - new report - Fawcett
- The GLDVP response to: The Way Forward – A call for action to end violence against women
Police failings in rape cases are far worse than they admit
14 March 2008 in London, Opinion Comment, Rape and Sexual Assault, Refugee, Women's Group
Women victims often still experience the inefficiency, neglect and hostility of officers, comments Ruth Hall of WAR
John Yates, the Metropolitan police’s assistant commissioner, has finally admitted what rape survivors have said for years: that “police are contributing to the ‘appalling’ conviction rate in rape cases because officers too often fail to take alleged victims seriously [...]