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Displacement


In this section, PeaceWomen classifies information by Theme- Displacement, which forms part of PeaceWomen’s framework to organize our women, peace and security resources for ease of reference and understanding. It is important to note that themes and sub-themes are interlinked and mutually reinforcing.

The displacement of civilian populations is one of the common consequences of conflict and also presents some of the greatest challenges to restoring and maintaining peace and security. Women face particular challenges as refugees and internally displaced persons (those displaced within their own country) and the Security Council has recognized and sought to address these in its resolutions on women, pace and security. Read More>>

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  • May 23, 2012 (Safe World For Women)
    DRC: Families in Camp Scattered by DRC Fighting “We were together in the forest when the fighting forced us to flee,” Mukakarimba said in tears, cradling her little boy to protect him from the lashing rain in this transit camp close to the Congolese border. She was separated from her husband and a second child in the chaos sparked by the fighting between soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo's army and mutineers – who were until recently rebel soldiers.
  • April 10, 2012 (UNHCR)
    COLOMBIA: UNHCR Supports Project to Help Displaced Colombians in Medellin Isabel* thinks she's finally found a place where she can rebuild her life, seven years after fleeing her home and moving from one location to another in search of safety. Her long journey has taken her from the Pacific port of Tumaco in the deep south-west to a deprived district in the sprawling northern city of Medellin, one of almost 4 million Colombians displaced within their own country by violence or persecution. She left because of the increasing violence and concern that her two children could be forcibly recruited by illegal armed groups.
  • April 1, 2012 (Women News Network)
    AMERICAS: 'War On Drugs' Leaves Latin american Women Lives in Ruin “Violence associated with the ‘war on drugs' and organized crime, which includes government corruption in some countries have specific consequences for women in Latin America”, said the Chilean lawyer Patsili Toledo, member of ‘Antígona' a research group of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a specialist in the subject of femicide in the continent.
  • February 6, 2012 (MADRE)
    GUATEMALA: Justice Delayed But Not Denied for Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala “Everything changed when the soldiers arrived,” said Rosa, an Indigenous Ixil woman living in the Quiché region of Guatemala. “They burned our homes, raped the women and killed many of my friends and neighbors.”
  • January 29, 2012 (Today's Zaman)
    KURDISTAN: Women Join Terrorist PKK for Many Reasons, Mainly Seeking Freedom Alkan's book, “PKK'da Semboller, Aktörler, Kadınlar” (Actors, Symbols and Women in the PKK), shows how hundreds of women have found themselves among the terrorist organization's militia in the mountains of Turkey's Southeast, on the borders of Iraq, Syria and Iran.

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  • United Nations (UN)
  • Asylum Access
    Asylum Access is an innovative, US-based international nonprofit dedicated to making refugee rights a reality in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We achieve this mission by providing legal information, advice and representation directly to refugees in their first countries of refuge, and by advocating for the rights of refugees worldwide.
  • International Rescue Committee (IRC)
  • Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC)
  • International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
    The ICRC is very conscious of the multi-faceted ways in which women experience armed conflicts and has recently initiated activities to better identify the ways in which women are affected by armed conflicts and war.

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United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): Women

Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC)

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Displacement Review (UNIFEM) [PDF, 348KB]

 

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