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Employees of the Women’s Refugee Commission interviewed survivors in Italy and, among other sources, spoke with crews of rescue ships. “On their journey through the desert, many refugees are kidnapped by…
Walking my daughters to school this morning, I told them that they should celebrate because today is a special day for girls around the world. International Day of the Girl…
ReliefWeb highlights the Women’s Refugee Commission’s report, Disruptions and Adaptations: The Effects of COVID-19 on Contraceptive Services across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO)…
…comment a Haitian woman made to my Women’s Refugee Commission colleagues who visited the country in the months after the quake: “Everything got worse, especially for us women.” Two years…
Ask scientist Nowras Rahhal about his cutting-edge work on a COVID-19 vaccine and he is eager to explain the complexities, but ask him where he comes from and he struggles…
The Obama administration said Friday it would detain families arriving at the border and announced investments in Central America to stem the flood of unaccompanied children also coming here. Meanwhile…
As is sometimes the case with good news, the announcement about deferred action for eligible DREAM students caught us pleasantly by surprise. The Women’s Refugee Commission’s Detention and Asylum staff…
…our global commitments, it flies in the face of our nation’s values. “This abhorrent decision will have a dangerous ripple effect around the world and drastically reduce our ability to…
Last week marked a real victory for women. At the London Summit on Family Planning, donors made significant financial commitments to expanding family planning to some of the most impoverished…
…the Women’s Refugee Commission. “They cannot leave. They are subject to head counts every three hours, and that includes guards walking into their rooms in the middle of the night,…
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