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Violence Against Women

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Women Environmental Human Rights Defenders

International Union for Conservation of Nature

Facing gender-based violence in defense of land, natural resources and human rights. Natural resources and ecosystem services directly support millions of people’s livelihoods, providing food and water, being part of cultural and communal identities and supporting rights to life. However, increased global demand for minerals, timber, palm oil and land threaten the sustainability of these resources and the ability of people to continue surviving on, living with and conserving them. In some cases, powerful state and non-state actors exploit weak or corrupt governance structures to extract natural resources with impunity, even when doing so directly harms communities and usurps their rights to lands and resources.

https://www.iucn.nl/app/uploads/2021/03/iucn-srjs-briefs-wehrd-gbv-en_01.pdf

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Women bear the brunt of the climate crisis, COP26 highlights

UN, 2021

“Today is gender day because gender and climate are profoundly intertwined. The impact of climate change [affects] women and girls disproportionately,” he said, urging to empower and support women.” Alok Sharma, the COP26 President

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/11/1105322

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Webinar: SR 1325 / Rehabilitation and reintegration for survivors of Gender Based Violence

MHHRI, 12, nov 2020

The UN Security Council Resolution 1325 acknowledged the disproportionate and unique impact of armed conflict on women and girls. It calls for the adoption of a gender perspective to consider the special needs of women and girls during conflict, repatriation and resettlement, rehabilitation, reintegration, and post-conflict reconstruction. With a particular focus to protect women and girls from wartime sexual violence.
MHHRI webinar gives you our take on how Resolution 1325 gave room for rehabilitation and reintegration of survivors of sexual gender-based violence as a part of the post conflict reconstruction.
Thursday November 12 at 9:30 am.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3758579911
More information here

https://www.facebook.com/events/269653364479711

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Why do they want to kill us?

Amnesty International, 2020

Defending human rights in Colombia is a high-risk profession, especially for those who protect and promote rights to the territory, to the environment and those linked to access to land. Colombia is the most dangerous country in the world in which to carry out this legitimate and essential activity, according to the organization Global Witness.1 The crisis faced by human rights defenders in Colombia is nothing new but the situation is deteriorating, despite the adoption of a peace agreement and numerous demands from Colombian civil society organizations and the international community that the government address this violence, as the numbers of killings and the hundreds of reports of attacks, harassment and threats faced by defenders clearly illustrate.

https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/AMR2330092020ENGLISH.PDF

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Insecurity Insight

Insecurity Insight is an organisation that examines threats facing people living and working in dangerous environments. Through innovative data collection and analysis methods generate insights relevant for aid workers, aid agencies and those concerned with the protection of health workers, educators, IDPs and refugees. This year they have launched a reporting mechanisms to help survivors of sexual violence and abuse at the aid workplace to document the problem and to highlight where change is needed.

 

http://insecurityinsight.org/projects-sexual-violence-and-abuse

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Mental Health Innovation Network (MHIN)

A community of mental health innovators – researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, service user advocates, and donors from around the world – sharing innovative resources and ideas to promote mental health and improve the lives of people with mental, neurological and substance use disorders. MHIN aims to facilitate the development and uptake of effective mental health interventions.

http://www.mhinnovation.net/

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What the eye does not see: a critical interpretive synthesis of European Union policies addressing sexual violence in vulnerable migrants

Ines Keygnaert & Aurore Guieu, 2015

In Europe, refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants are more vulnerable to sexual victimisation than European citizens. They face more challenges when seeking care. This literature review examines how legal and policy frameworks at national, European and international levels condition the prevention of and response to sexual violence affecting these vulnerable migrant communities living in the European Union.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.rhm.2015.11.002

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INITIAL ASSESSMENT REPORT: Protection Risks for Women and Girls in the European Refugee and Migrant Crisis

UNCHR, 2015

For the first time since World War II, Europe is experiencing a massive movement of refugees and migrants, women, girls, men and boys of all ages, fleeing armed conflicts, mass killings, persecution and pervasive sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Many seek refuge in Europe from the ongoing armed conflicts that have torn apart their societies, and are entitled to protection under the (1951) Refugee Convention, its subsequent Protocol, and other international instruments.

http://www.unhcr.org/protection/operations/569f8f419/initial-assessment-report-protection-risks-women-girls-european-refugee.html

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Women Refugees at Risk in Europe

The Nobel Women’s Initiative, 2016

For the first time since World War II, Europe is experiencing a massive movement of refugees and migrants, women, girls, men and boys of all ages, fleeing armed conflicts, mass killings, persecution and pervasive sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Many seek refuge in Europe from the ongoing armed conflicts that have torn apart their societies, and are entitled to protection under the (1951) Refugee Convention, its subsequent Protocol, and other international instruments.

https://nobelwomensinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Opening-Borders-Report_FINAL_WEB-1.pdf

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Sexual Violence Against Refugee Women on the Move to and Within Europe

WHO European Region, 2017

The objective of this overview is to present the issue of sexual violence (SV) against refugee women and girls and to discuss countermeasures that have been suggested or initiated by the Member States of the WHO European Region and national nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) between January (2015) and May 2016. A literature review was undertaken using Google scholar, the WHO publication database and a cross-search of journal databases.

http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/319311/9-Sexual-violence-refugee-women.pdf?ua=1

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