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Sandra Krause, director, reproductive health program, and Diana Quick, director of communications, write about the Mama: Together for Safe Births in Crises, in this issue of Forced Migration Review that focuses on innovative uses of technology.
Dale Buscher, senior director for programs, has an article in the Amsterdam Law Journal. The international humanitarian community is tasked with protecting the most vulnerable populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and intersex (LGBTI) refugees. While international law protects these rights in theory, in practice they are often not met and flagrantly disregarded by many refugee-hosting governments. Having fled persecution in their home countries, many then face other—often equally serious—risks in the countries where they are trying to resettle. Read the article.
FORCED MIGRATION REVIEW, ISSUE 36, NOVEMBER 2010
Forced Migration Review 36, which focuses on the Democratic Republic of Congo, has a series of articles on cooking fuel, one based on information from our website and one about the SAFE workshop we conducted in DRC. Read the article
Dale Buscher, director of protection, has an article in Refugee Survey Quarterly (Vol. 29, No. 2). The edition is devoted to gender equality and refugee women. In the lead article, “Refugee Women: Twenty Years On,” Buscher describes progress made since UNHCR released its first Policy on Refugee Women in 1990, including in the areas of reproductive health and gender-based violence, and outlines issues that require further attention, such as the gap between knowledge and practice, and the protection risks women continue to face in camps. Read the article.
FORCED MIGRATION REVIEW, ISSUE 35, JUNE 2010
Rachael Reilly, who wrote our disabilities report and toolkit, writes about disabilities among refugees andconflict-affected populations.
Forced Migration Review, February 2010 issue
Dale Buscher, director of protection, and Lauren Heller, senior program officer for reproductive health, write about the risks and challenges confronting refugee women in urban areas.
Forced Migration Review, September 2009 issue
Jenny Perlman Robinson, senior program officer, children and youth, and Shogufa Alpar, program coordinator, write about displaced young people's needs for education and training in marketable skills.
Monday Developments magazine, June 2009 issue
Dale Buscher, director of protection at the Women's Refugee Commission, writes about the need to create opportunities for the displaced to help themselves.
Article by Walter Kälin, Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the RIghts of IDPs, and Claudine Haenni Dale, Women's Commission Geneva Representative.
Sarah Chynoweth, program manager, reproductive health program, pens article on the reproductive health needs of displaced Iraqi women and girls.
Young people under the age of 25 now make up nearly half of the world’s population, and 9 out of 10 of them live in developing countries
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