Latest items for CWC-DATA-3
Feb. 21, 2025, 6:58 p.m.
Countries: Sweden
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Over the past century, Sweden has been Europe's number one sanctuary for 'war weary' or persecuted people – Claudia herself came here, like others, to escape the fascist regime of Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet four decades ago. In 2015, as huge numbers of migrants headed to Europe during the Syrian civil war, Sweden welcomed 163,000 asylum seekers from the Middle East, a gesture that many today believe has provoked a national crisis" (para 12-13). "Between 2002 and 2023, the share of the Swedish population who are either foreign-born or have at least one foreign-born parent increased from 21 per cent to 35 per cent, according to a report by...more
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Over the past century, Sweden has been Europe's number one sanctuary for 'war weary' or persecuted people – Claudia herself came here, like others, to escape the fascist regime of Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet four decades ago. In 2015, as huge numbers of migrants headed to Europe during the Syrian civil war, Sweden welcomed 163,000 asylum seekers from the Middle East, a gesture that many today believe has provoked a national crisis" (para 12-13). "Between 2002 and 2023, the share of the Swedish population who are either foreign-born or have at least one foreign-born parent increased from 21 per cent to 35 per cent, according to a report by...more
Feb. 13, 2025, 10:47 p.m.
Countries: Italy
Variables: CWC-DATA-3, CWC-DATA-4
"Material and technical support from Italy has enabled the Libyan Coast Guard, under the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), to intercept thousands of people at sea and return them to Libya where they face arbitrary, indefinite detention and a high risk of exploitation and violence, including rape. Despite clear and abundant evidence of widespread human rights violations and abuses suffered by migrants in Libya, the Memorandum of Understanding that provides the framework for Italy-Libya migration cooperation automatically renewed for another three years on February 2, 2020. To date, the GNA has not accepted cosmetic changes to the MoU, which Italy proposed shortly after its renewal, to increase protection for...more
Variables: CWC-DATA-3, CWC-DATA-4
"Material and technical support from Italy has enabled the Libyan Coast Guard, under the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), to intercept thousands of people at sea and return them to Libya where they face arbitrary, indefinite detention and a high risk of exploitation and violence, including rape. Despite clear and abundant evidence of widespread human rights violations and abuses suffered by migrants in Libya, the Memorandum of Understanding that provides the framework for Italy-Libya migration cooperation automatically renewed for another three years on February 2, 2020. To date, the GNA has not accepted cosmetic changes to the MoU, which Italy proposed shortly after its renewal, to increase protection for...more
Feb. 13, 2025, 10:42 p.m.
Countries: Libya
Variables: CWC-DATA-3, CWC-DATA-4
"Material and technical support from Italy has enabled the Libyan Coast Guard, under the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), to intercept thousands of people at sea and return them to Libya where they face arbitrary, indefinite detention and a high risk of exploitation and violence, including rape. Despite clear and abundant evidence of widespread human rights violations and abuses suffered by migrants in Libya, the Memorandum of Understanding that provides the framework for Italy-Libya migration cooperation automatically renewed for another three years on February 2, 2020. To date, the GNA has not accepted cosmetic changes to the MoU, which Italy proposed shortly after its renewal, to increase protection for...more
Variables: CWC-DATA-3, CWC-DATA-4
"Material and technical support from Italy has enabled the Libyan Coast Guard, under the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), to intercept thousands of people at sea and return them to Libya where they face arbitrary, indefinite detention and a high risk of exploitation and violence, including rape. Despite clear and abundant evidence of widespread human rights violations and abuses suffered by migrants in Libya, the Memorandum of Understanding that provides the framework for Italy-Libya migration cooperation automatically renewed for another three years on February 2, 2020. To date, the GNA has not accepted cosmetic changes to the MoU, which Italy proposed shortly after its renewal, to increase protection for...more
Feb. 3, 2025, 2:42 p.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"They arrive every few minutes, survivors of the unrelenting sexual violence that defines one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. And among the first to assess the exhausted women after they reach the squalid camps on the outskirts of Goma, regional capital of the war-ravaged east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is Irengue Trezor.The 35-year-old works for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), overseeing the charity’s sexual violence clinics within the sprawling camps of grubby white tents that are home to 650,000 people who have fled the fighting" (Para 1, 2). Charities like MSF are reporting a growing number of refugees near the eastern city of Goma who are...more
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"They arrive every few minutes, survivors of the unrelenting sexual violence that defines one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. And among the first to assess the exhausted women after they reach the squalid camps on the outskirts of Goma, regional capital of the war-ravaged east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is Irengue Trezor.The 35-year-old works for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), overseeing the charity’s sexual violence clinics within the sprawling camps of grubby white tents that are home to 650,000 people who have fled the fighting" (Para 1, 2). Charities like MSF are reporting a growing number of refugees near the eastern city of Goma who are...more
Jan. 30, 2025, 7:52 p.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"It is concerned that women, especially rural women, women belonging to ethnic minorities, migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and women with disabilities are often not aware of their rights under the Convention and the remedies available to claim them" (para 3). "[M]igrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls are at a higher risk of becoming victims of trafficking for purposes of sexual or labour exploitation" (8). "[T]he Committee notes with concern shortcomings and delays in birth registrations and in the registration, issuance and renewal of identity cards for refugee women and girls in the State party" (10). "The Committee takes note of the efforts put in place by the State...more
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"It is concerned that women, especially rural women, women belonging to ethnic minorities, migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and women with disabilities are often not aware of their rights under the Convention and the remedies available to claim them" (para 3). "[M]igrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls are at a higher risk of becoming victims of trafficking for purposes of sexual or labour exploitation" (8). "[T]he Committee notes with concern shortcomings and delays in birth registrations and in the registration, issuance and renewal of identity cards for refugee women and girls in the State party" (10). "The Committee takes note of the efforts put in place by the State...more
Jan. 29, 2025, 7:35 p.m.
Countries: Costa Rica
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[T]he Committee notes with concern... (b) Barriers to access to justice faced by Indigenous women, women of African descent, migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and women with disabilities, such as legal illiteracy and the lack of information on available remedies to complain about intersecting forms of discrimination" (3). "[I]t notes with concern... (b)The lack of measures to meet women’s and girls’ needs to develop science, technology, engineering and mathematics and digital skills, including for rural, migrant, refugee and Afrodescendent girls and women and women and girls with disabilities" (8). "[T]he Committee notes with concern… (e) Reported workplace violence, harassment and hate speech against migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women" (8-9). "The...more
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[T]he Committee notes with concern... (b) Barriers to access to justice faced by Indigenous women, women of African descent, migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and women with disabilities, such as legal illiteracy and the lack of information on available remedies to complain about intersecting forms of discrimination" (3). "[I]t notes with concern... (b)The lack of measures to meet women’s and girls’ needs to develop science, technology, engineering and mathematics and digital skills, including for rural, migrant, refugee and Afrodescendent girls and women and women and girls with disabilities" (8). "[T]he Committee notes with concern… (e) Reported workplace violence, harassment and hate speech against migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women" (8-9). "The...more
Jan. 27, 2025, 9 p.m.
Countries: China
Variables: LDS-PRACTICE-2, CWC-DATA-3
"Over 70 per cent of defectors fleeing Kim Jong-un's regime are female, according to a 2023 article by the Korea Times. Some defectors are helped to escape by brokers, only to be sold as brides in China, where a gender imbalance has fuelled a black market trade. But the Chinese state classifies North Korean defectors as illegal economic migrants rather than refugees, and repatriates those it captures. Last year, up to 600 defectors were repatriated in October alone, according to the Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), an NGO in South Korea" (Para 12-15).
Variables: LDS-PRACTICE-2, CWC-DATA-3
"Over 70 per cent of defectors fleeing Kim Jong-un's regime are female, according to a 2023 article by the Korea Times. Some defectors are helped to escape by brokers, only to be sold as brides in China, where a gender imbalance has fuelled a black market trade. But the Chinese state classifies North Korean defectors as illegal economic migrants rather than refugees, and repatriates those it captures. Last year, up to 600 defectors were repatriated in October alone, according to the Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), an NGO in South Korea" (Para 12-15).
Jan. 27, 2025, 8:38 p.m.
Countries: North Korea
Variables: LDS-PRACTICE-2, CWC-DATA-3
"Over 70 per cent of defectors fleeing Kim Jong-un's regime are female, according to a 2023 article by the Korea Times. Some defectors are helped to escape by brokers, only to be sold as brides in China, where a gender imbalance has fuelled a black market trade. But the Chinese state classifies North Korean defectors as illegal economic migrants rather than refugees, and repatriates those it captures. Last year, up to 600 defectors were repatriated in October alone, according to the Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), an NGO in South Korea" (Para 12-15).
Variables: LDS-PRACTICE-2, CWC-DATA-3
"Over 70 per cent of defectors fleeing Kim Jong-un's regime are female, according to a 2023 article by the Korea Times. Some defectors are helped to escape by brokers, only to be sold as brides in China, where a gender imbalance has fuelled a black market trade. But the Chinese state classifies North Korean defectors as illegal economic migrants rather than refugees, and repatriates those it captures. Last year, up to 600 defectors were repatriated in October alone, according to the Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG), an NGO in South Korea" (Para 12-15).
Jan. 24, 2025, 7:43 p.m.
Countries: Chile
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Apg23 has been running the Escuelita project in the municipality of Peñalolén since 1995, and takes in about 50 children at social risk from 30 families in the area every day, carrying out educational and recreational activities and providing childcare while their parents work. There are currently 30 heads of household, 20 of whom are single mothers, who carry out the task of raising and providing for their families on their own. It should also be noted that 16 mothers of the total are migrants, who arrived with their children from Haiti, Venezuela and Peru" (2).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Apg23 has been running the Escuelita project in the municipality of Peñalolén since 1995, and takes in about 50 children at social risk from 30 families in the area every day, carrying out educational and recreational activities and providing childcare while their parents work. There are currently 30 heads of household, 20 of whom are single mothers, who carry out the task of raising and providing for their families on their own. It should also be noted that 16 mothers of the total are migrants, who arrived with their children from Haiti, Venezuela and Peru" (2).
Jan. 8, 2025, 9:59 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Sudanese refugees who wade across a stream to enter Chad mostly say they leave because of starvation at home. But in tearful whispers, they add that something else is also driving both the starvation and the exodus: mass rape" (para 1). "[M]ore than two million Sudanese have fled their country since it tumbled into civil war last year amid a new explosion of violence and accompanying famine" (para 6).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Sudanese refugees who wade across a stream to enter Chad mostly say they leave because of starvation at home. But in tearful whispers, they add that something else is also driving both the starvation and the exodus: mass rape" (para 1). "[M]ore than two million Sudanese have fled their country since it tumbled into civil war last year amid a new explosion of violence and accompanying famine" (para 6).
Jan. 4, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Germany
Variables: CWC-DATA-3, CWC-DATA-4
"Instead of acknowledging femicide as a massive problem for society as a whole, politicians from all sides tend to pay attention only when violence against women serves their political aims, namely: blaming foreigners, especially Muslims, for their supposedly misogynist worldviews. Cem Özdemir of the Greens, for instance, the minister of agriculture, wrote an opinion piece for the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently. Özdemir, himself a son of Turkish immigrants if it matters, talked about his 19-year-old daughter’s worries about not being able to point out the misogyny she experiences from refugees and Muslim immigrants because she doesn’t want to be racist" (par. 8-9).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3, CWC-DATA-4
"Instead of acknowledging femicide as a massive problem for society as a whole, politicians from all sides tend to pay attention only when violence against women serves their political aims, namely: blaming foreigners, especially Muslims, for their supposedly misogynist worldviews. Cem Özdemir of the Greens, for instance, the minister of agriculture, wrote an opinion piece for the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently. Özdemir, himself a son of Turkish immigrants if it matters, talked about his 19-year-old daughter’s worries about not being able to point out the misogyny she experiences from refugees and Muslim immigrants because she doesn’t want to be racist" (par. 8-9).
Dec. 13, 2024, 7:47 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"In the 18 months since fighting began, the RSF and Sudanese army have fought bitter battles for power across the country, displacing around 14 million people according to the UN, while at least 19,000 people have been killed" (para 13).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"In the 18 months since fighting began, the RSF and Sudanese army have fought bitter battles for power across the country, displacing around 14 million people according to the UN, while at least 19,000 people have been killed" (para 13).
Dec. 11, 2024, 11:39 p.m.
Countries: Malaysia
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and in neighboring Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages with Rohingya men who frequently abuse them, The Associated Press found in interviews with 12 young Rohingya brides who have arrived in Malaysia since 2022. The youngest was 13" (para 9). "Malaysia is not a signatory to the United Nations’ refugee convention, so the girls — who enter the country without permission — are less likely to report their assaults to authorities. Doing so could put them at risk of being thrown into one of Malaysia’s detention centers, which have long been plagued by reports of abuse" (para...more
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and in neighboring Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages with Rohingya men who frequently abuse them, The Associated Press found in interviews with 12 young Rohingya brides who have arrived in Malaysia since 2022. The youngest was 13" (para 9). "Malaysia is not a signatory to the United Nations’ refugee convention, so the girls — who enter the country without permission — are less likely to report their assaults to authorities. Doing so could put them at risk of being thrown into one of Malaysia’s detention centers, which have long been plagued by reports of abuse" (para...more
Dec. 7, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Dr Shaza and her family fled their home in Al Hilaliya in eastern Al Jazira and are now living in tents in an empty plot of land in Shendi, a safe city just 150km northeast of Sudan's besieged capital Khartoum" (par. 5).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Dr Shaza and her family fled their home in Al Hilaliya in eastern Al Jazira and are now living in tents in an empty plot of land in Shendi, a safe city just 150km northeast of Sudan's besieged capital Khartoum" (par. 5).
Dec. 4, 2024, 4:45 p.m.
Countries: Burma/Myanmar
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Around one-fifth of the 20,000 political prisoners in Myanmar are female, according to a local rights group, while United Nations data shows that females make up around half of the country's 3 million displaced" (par. 45). "The International Organization for Migration in Thailand said it had seen a steady increase in people crossing the border from Myanmar, including a nearly 30% increase between January and February. In response to emailed questions, Géraldine Ansart, chief of mission at the IOM in Thailand, said women are more likely than men to enter Thailand without official documentation, which leaves them open to labour exploitation" (par. 61-62).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Around one-fifth of the 20,000 political prisoners in Myanmar are female, according to a local rights group, while United Nations data shows that females make up around half of the country's 3 million displaced" (par. 45). "The International Organization for Migration in Thailand said it had seen a steady increase in people crossing the border from Myanmar, including a nearly 30% increase between January and February. In response to emailed questions, Géraldine Ansart, chief of mission at the IOM in Thailand, said women are more likely than men to enter Thailand without official documentation, which leaves them open to labour exploitation" (par. 61-62).
Dec. 3, 2024, 4:25 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Women’s rights campaigners have spoken of their concern over the spread of female genital mutilation among Sudanese refugees in camps across the border in Chad...Chad has hosted refugees fleeing conflict in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan for decades, but the number of arrivals has increased dramatically since war broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Before FGM was made illegal in Sudan in 2020, Sudanese refugees in Chad would return to their home country to cut their daughters then head back across the border to the camps, a staff member of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said" (1, 6-7).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Women’s rights campaigners have spoken of their concern over the spread of female genital mutilation among Sudanese refugees in camps across the border in Chad...Chad has hosted refugees fleeing conflict in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan for decades, but the number of arrivals has increased dramatically since war broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Before FGM was made illegal in Sudan in 2020, Sudanese refugees in Chad would return to their home country to cut their daughters then head back across the border to the camps, a staff member of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said" (1, 6-7).
Dec. 3, 2024, 4:24 p.m.
Countries: Chad
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Women’s rights campaigners have spoken of their concern over the spread of female genital mutilation among Sudanese refugees in camps across the border in Chad...Chad has hosted refugees fleeing conflict in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan for decades, but the number of arrivals has increased dramatically since war broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Before FGM was made illegal in Sudan in 2020, Sudanese refugees in Chad would return to their home country to cut their daughters then head back across the border to the camps, a staff member of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said" (1, 6-7).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Women’s rights campaigners have spoken of their concern over the spread of female genital mutilation among Sudanese refugees in camps across the border in Chad...Chad has hosted refugees fleeing conflict in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan for decades, but the number of arrivals has increased dramatically since war broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Before FGM was made illegal in Sudan in 2020, Sudanese refugees in Chad would return to their home country to cut their daughters then head back across the border to the camps, a staff member of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said" (1, 6-7).
Nov. 12, 2024, 1:32 p.m.
Countries: Latvia
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"The Committee welcomes the progress achieved...in particular the adoption of the following…[a]mendments to the Law on Social Services and Social Assistance, providing for State-funded social rehabilitation services for adults and children, including refugees and 'persons of alternative status', having suffered violence, including domestic violence, as well as perpetrators of such violence, in 2015" (1-2). "[T]he Committee recommends that the State party: continue its efforts to ensure effective access to justice, full inclusion and accessibility for disadvantaged or marginalized women, such as women belonging to ethnic minority groups, in particular Roma women, women who are non-citizens, refugee, asylum-seeking, migrant, rural and older women, women with disabilities, lesbian, bisexual and transgender women...more
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"The Committee welcomes the progress achieved...in particular the adoption of the following…[a]mendments to the Law on Social Services and Social Assistance, providing for State-funded social rehabilitation services for adults and children, including refugees and 'persons of alternative status', having suffered violence, including domestic violence, as well as perpetrators of such violence, in 2015" (1-2). "[T]he Committee recommends that the State party: continue its efforts to ensure effective access to justice, full inclusion and accessibility for disadvantaged or marginalized women, such as women belonging to ethnic minority groups, in particular Roma women, women who are non-citizens, refugee, asylum-seeking, migrant, rural and older women, women with disabilities, lesbian, bisexual and transgender women...more
April 19, 2024, 3:06 p.m.
Countries: Serbia
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[E]lectronic birth registration [are not extended] to home births and to all parents, including [] internally displaced parents and those without an address or identity documents" (12). "[Refugee and internally displaced women] continue to experience multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination... [T]hose women continue to have limited access to health care, education, employment and social assistance and they lack protection from gender-based violence" (16).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[E]lectronic birth registration [are not extended] to home births and to all parents, including [] internally displaced parents and those without an address or identity documents" (12). "[Refugee and internally displaced women] continue to experience multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination... [T]hose women continue to have limited access to health care, education, employment and social assistance and they lack protection from gender-based violence" (16).
April 19, 2024, 1:48 p.m.
Countries: Serbia
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[M]easures [are not being taken] to protect internally and externally displaced women and girls against forced displacement and violence" (11). This indicates that displaced women and girls experience forced displacement and violence (MV-coder comment). "Some 2,200 persons remain at risk of statelessness, in particular Roma who are internally displaced, registered in Kosovo and residing in Serbia, with approximately 300 to 400 persons lacking birth registration… Child and forced marriages among Roma contribute to statelessness" (11).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[M]easures [are not being taken] to protect internally and externally displaced women and girls against forced displacement and violence" (11). This indicates that displaced women and girls experience forced displacement and violence (MV-coder comment). "Some 2,200 persons remain at risk of statelessness, in particular Roma who are internally displaced, registered in Kosovo and residing in Serbia, with approximately 300 to 400 persons lacking birth registration… Child and forced marriages among Roma contribute to statelessness" (11).
March 30, 2024, 2:46 p.m.
Countries: Lithuania
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[There has been a] steady decrease in the number of stateless persons, including stateless women, in the State party since 2012" (10).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[There has been a] steady decrease in the number of stateless persons, including stateless women, in the State party since 2012" (10).
March 15, 2024, 2:30 p.m.
Countries: Gabon
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Act No. 5/98 of 05 March 1998 confers on refugees in Gabon the same rights as nationals. There is no discrimination against them. Refugees in Gabon are not housed in camps. They are settled in the main cities, live in harmony with the local population and go freely about their business... [Refugees] enjoy the same benefits as expatriates and may obtain a permit from the Ministry of Labour to work in the civil service... [R]efugee children enjoy the same rights as Gabonese (school is compulsory for children aged from 3 to 16 years)" (24). "Registration [for health insurance] is also available for refugees" (29).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Act No. 5/98 of 05 March 1998 confers on refugees in Gabon the same rights as nationals. There is no discrimination against them. Refugees in Gabon are not housed in camps. They are settled in the main cities, live in harmony with the local population and go freely about their business... [Refugees] enjoy the same benefits as expatriates and may obtain a permit from the Ministry of Labour to work in the civil service... [R]efugee children enjoy the same rights as Gabonese (school is compulsory for children aged from 3 to 16 years)" (24). "Registration [for health insurance] is also available for refugees" (29).
Feb. 20, 2024, 6:27 p.m.
Countries: D R Congo
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[T]he majority of internally displaced persons are women and children, including older women, and that they lack access to humanitarian assistance, including food and health services, in particular in Ituri Province" (16). "[Internally displaced women and girls do not] have adequate access to health services, education, food, shelter, freedom of movement, registration and durable solutions, as well as sustainable employment opportunities" (16).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[T]he majority of internally displaced persons are women and children, including older women, and that they lack access to humanitarian assistance, including food and health services, in particular in Ituri Province" (16). "[Internally displaced women and girls do not] have adequate access to health services, education, food, shelter, freedom of movement, registration and durable solutions, as well as sustainable employment opportunities" (16).
Jan. 29, 2024, 5:50 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[B]arriers to access to high-quality education at all levels [are] faced by [refugee and asylum-seeking girls]" (10). "[There is]disproportionately low enrolment and completion rates at all levels of education among [refugee and asylum-seeking girls] throughout the State party" (11). "[T]he special needs of refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls [are not addressed], including through the provision of delivery and postnatal care in reception centres, the early identification and prevention of gender-based violence in the centres and the introduction of gender-sensitive asylum procedures" (14).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[B]arriers to access to high-quality education at all levels [are] faced by [refugee and asylum-seeking girls]" (10). "[There is]disproportionately low enrolment and completion rates at all levels of education among [refugee and asylum-seeking girls] throughout the State party" (11). "[T]he special needs of refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls [are not addressed], including through the provision of delivery and postnatal care in reception centres, the early identification and prevention of gender-based violence in the centres and the introduction of gender-sensitive asylum procedures" (14).
Jan. 19, 2024, 12:06 p.m.
Countries: Central African Rep
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"With the support of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Government has implemented a programme to repatriate displaced persons and refugees. Many Central African Republic refugees in Cameroon, Chad, the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been voluntarily repatriated. This programme has enabled 50,000 internally displaced persons in Bangui and Bambari to return to their places of residence" (29). "Returnees have received support in the form of cash kits in the amount of 50,000 CFA francs per person, food stamps for women and shelter. These funds support the basic needs of returnees during the first week of their return" (30).more
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"With the support of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Government has implemented a programme to repatriate displaced persons and refugees. Many Central African Republic refugees in Cameroon, Chad, the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been voluntarily repatriated. This programme has enabled 50,000 internally displaced persons in Bangui and Bambari to return to their places of residence" (29). "Returnees have received support in the form of cash kits in the amount of 50,000 CFA francs per person, food stamps for women and shelter. These funds support the basic needs of returnees during the first week of their return" (30).more
Jan. 13, 2024, 5:06 p.m.
Countries: Central African Rep
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[T]he return and reintegration of displaced persons estimate the number of internally displaced persons in the Central African Republic at 669,997, of whom 262,366 are at 77 sites across the country and 407,631 are with host families… IOM has organized evacuations of displaced persons and refugees in host cities and cities of origin as required" (29). "Checkpoints have been put in place at the entrances and exits of city neighbourhoods with the most at-risk populations. These checkpoints are supposed to prevent any attacks against returnees" (29).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[T]he return and reintegration of displaced persons estimate the number of internally displaced persons in the Central African Republic at 669,997, of whom 262,366 are at 77 sites across the country and 407,631 are with host families… IOM has organized evacuations of displaced persons and refugees in host cities and cities of origin as required" (29). "Checkpoints have been put in place at the entrances and exits of city neighbourhoods with the most at-risk populations. These checkpoints are supposed to prevent any attacks against returnees" (29).
Jan. 4, 2024, 10:41 a.m.
Countries: Singapore
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Singapore is not in a position to accept any persons seeking political asylum or refugee status" (21).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Singapore is not in a position to accept any persons seeking political asylum or refugee status" (21).
Oct. 4, 2023, 6:58 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[M]igrant and asylum-seeking women and girls with irregular migration status, most of whom are from the Democratic Republic of the Congo: [f]ace obstacles in registering for and requesting a determination on refugee status; [a]re subject to mass expulsion, regardless of whether they are in need of international protection; [c]ontinue to be subject to the excessive use of force and sexual violence perpetrated with impunity by the State party’s security forces; [and a]re subject to sexual exploitation, including being compelled to engage in so-called “transactional sex” in exchange for food and other items necessary for survival, in settlement camps for refugees such as in Lóvua and Kamako" (14).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"[M]igrant and asylum-seeking women and girls with irregular migration status, most of whom are from the Democratic Republic of the Congo: [f]ace obstacles in registering for and requesting a determination on refugee status; [a]re subject to mass expulsion, regardless of whether they are in need of international protection; [c]ontinue to be subject to the excessive use of force and sexual violence perpetrated with impunity by the State party’s security forces; [and a]re subject to sexual exploitation, including being compelled to engage in so-called “transactional sex” in exchange for food and other items necessary for survival, in settlement camps for refugees such as in Lóvua and Kamako" (14).
Sept. 30, 2023, 4 p.m.
Countries: Kazakhstan
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"The Committee is concerned about reports that women with disabilities, lesbian, bisexual and transgender women and intersex persons, refugee women, asylum-seeking women, stateless women and women with undetermined citizenship continue to experience multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination" (pp.16-17).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"The Committee is concerned about reports that women with disabilities, lesbian, bisexual and transgender women and intersex persons, refugee women, asylum-seeking women, stateless women and women with undetermined citizenship continue to experience multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination" (pp.16-17).
Sept. 22, 2023, 8:51 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"There were reports throughout the year that Lunda Norte provincial authorities exerted pressure on irregular migrants and refugees to return to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The government failed to provide adequate protection for asylum seekers and urban refugees" (12). "In August and September, the government supported a voluntary spontaneous repatriation of more than 15,000 refugees from Lunda Norte to the DRC. The government cooperated with UNHCR and the government of the DRC to respond to the humanitarian crisis and provided transportation for the spontaneous returnees. UNHCR estimated more than 8,000 refugees remained at its Lovua, Lunda Norte, resettlement camp" (13).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"There were reports throughout the year that Lunda Norte provincial authorities exerted pressure on irregular migrants and refugees to return to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The government failed to provide adequate protection for asylum seekers and urban refugees" (12). "In August and September, the government supported a voluntary spontaneous repatriation of more than 15,000 refugees from Lunda Norte to the DRC. The government cooperated with UNHCR and the government of the DRC to respond to the humanitarian crisis and provided transportation for the spontaneous returnees. UNHCR estimated more than 8,000 refugees remained at its Lovua, Lunda Norte, resettlement camp" (13).