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In 1994, the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) published a landmark report that described how little was being done to address the critical reproductive health needs of refugees and internally displaced…
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women, the Women’s Refugee Commission, with the support of UNHCR and two of its…
…trying to cross the borders to Israel. At night we would sleep on the ground. Every day we were passed to different smugglers. I know many people who’ve since come…
…men to pass nationality to a noncitizen spouse. “Gender discrimination in nationality laws undermines women’s equal citizenship and results in wide-ranging rights violations and hardships for affected families, including obstacles…
This blog was cross-posted from “We Need to Write Our Own Names”: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in the Rohingya Humanitarian Response in Cox’s Bazar documents positive practices and lessons…
The Women’s Refugee Commission and the UN refugee agency held an event to mark World Refugee Day, which featured two refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sandra Uwiringiy’imana and…
…issue the Women’s Refugee Commission has been addressing for many years. During conflict and displacement, incidents of gender-based violence, including rape, exploitation and abuse, often soar. This video demonstrates that…
“There are more refugees now than at any other time in recent history,” laments Sarah Costa, executive director of the Women’s Refugee Commission, one of the few organizations that focuses specifically on…
…lawyers. Through social media activism, public rallies and demonstrations, the #bringbackourgirls campaign has garnered huge international support and attention as people around the world demand the girls’ return. The injustice…
The Los Angeles Times quotes the WRC’s Jennifer Podkul in this article about the practice of detaining immigrants in frigid cells to pressure them to agree to deportation. Two California Democrats,…
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