War Has Changed Our Life, Not Our Spirit: Experiences of Forcibly Displaced Women

In the so-called world order, women refugees are at the bottom of the ladder in every respect. Like most forcibly displaced people they come from the poorest countries of the world they are victims of racism and they have lost everything their possessions,, their land, often their country and many of their rights. Most have lost those who were dearest to them. But women refugees are also targeted specifically because they are women: 80 percent of all refugees are women and children, women are often left to raise families alone with inadequate medical or education facilities, rape is used as a strategy of war, gender-related crimes and crimes of a sexual nature are often excluded from the international legal definition of a refugee the mothers of the estimated 300,000 child soldiers have the devastating experience of seeing their children taken away to carry out unspeakable atrocities.