Gender Based Violence Against Female Refugees In Refugee Camps

Author : Yonas Gebreiyosus
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783954896264

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Women in African Refugee Camps: Gender Based Violence against Female Refugees: The case of Mai Ayni Refugee Camp, Northern Ethiopia by Yonas Gebreiyosus Pdf

The study has found that female refugees in refugee camps are exposed to sexual violence, physical violence and socio-economic violence including attempted rape, rape, gang rape, physical injuries, discrimination and stigmatization and denial of access to services. The book also discloses that male refugees and intimate partners of female refugees are the prime gender based violence perpetrators of female refugees in Mai Ayni refugee camp. Moreover, the study reveales that idleness, economic dependency, physical insecurity, lack of awareness, collapse of social and family structure as well as poor reporting, coordination and legal enforcement mechanisms are identified as causes/risk factors for gender based violence against female refugees in refugee camps. Moreover, mens’ feelings of ‘loss of power’ in the camp, which challenge male identity as superior to female, lead male refugees to anger and make female refugees vulnerable to different forms of gender based violence. Consequently, because of gender based violence, female refugees in refugee camps have to fear short and long lasting damaging consequences on their lives in terms of health, both physical and psycho-social.

Author : Yonas Gebreiyosus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 365640111X

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Gender-Based Violence Against Female Refugees in Refugee Camps by Yonas Gebreiyosus Pdf

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: Excellent, Addis Ababa University (Center For Human Rights), course: Human Rights, language: English, comment: I am working at Mekelle University in College of Law and Governance as a Lecturer, teaching courses like human rights, development theories, gender and human rights etc. Academic: Master of Arts in Human Rights from Addis Ababa University College of Law and Governance., abstract: ABSTRACT Gender-based violence prevents female's enjoyment of fundamental human rights and it is also central social, economic and health problem. Similarly, gender-based violence is viewed as a significant problem in refugee camps throughout the world. However, in Ethiopia studies on gender based violence against female refugees are limited. Most researches in this area were conducted in line with other problems of refugees. Yet, in order to assess comprehensively it needs specific study. Thus, the main objective of the study was to examine the prevalence, cause and consequences of gender based violence against female refugees in Mai Ayni refugee camp. In order to achieve these objectives, qualitative methods of data collection have been employed. Hence, data were collected from in-depth interview with eighteen female refugees and five male refugees, focus group discussion with male and female refugees, key informant interviews with concerned bodies as well as document analysis and personal observation were used. The study has found that female refugees in the camp were exposed to sexual violence, physical violence and socio-economic violence including; attempt rape, rape, gang rape, physical injuries, discrimination and stigmatization, and denial of access to services. The study also disclosed that male refugees and intimate partners of female refugees were the prime gender based violence perpetrators of female refugees in Mai Ayni re

Author : Susanne Buckley-Zistel,Ulrike Krause
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785336171

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Gender, Violence, Refugees by Susanne Buckley-Zistel,Ulrike Krause Pdf

Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment and return. The essays show how these factors lead to various forms of direct, indirect and structural violence. This ranges from discussions of norms reflected in policy documents and practise, the relationship between relief structures and living conditions in camps, to forced military recruitment and forced return, and covers countries in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Author : Ulrike Krause
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108830089

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Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp by Ulrike Krause Pdf

Offering nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees in a Ugandan refugee camp, this book shows how risks prevail for refugees despite and partly due to their settlement in the camp and the system established to protect them, and hones in on the strategies used by people to protect themselves.

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Global Violence Prevention
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309263641

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Contagion of Violence by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Global Violence Prevention Pdf

The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to the recognition that violence is preventable. Part of this shift has occurred in thinking about why violence occurs, and where intervention points might lie. In exploring the occurrence of violence, researchers have recognized the tendency for violent acts to cluster, to spread from place to place, and to mutate from one type to another. Furthermore, violent acts are often preceded or followed by other violent acts. In the field of public health, such a process has also been seen in the infectious disease model, in which an agent or vector initiates a specific biological pathway leading to symptoms of disease and infectivity. The agent transmits from individual to individual, and levels of the disease in the population above the baseline constitute an epidemic. Although violence does not have a readily observable biological agent as an initiator, it can follow similar epidemiological pathways. On April 30-May 1, 2012, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Forum on Global Violence Prevention convened a workshop to explore the contagious nature of violence. Part of the Forum's mandate is to engage in multisectoral, multidirectional dialogue that explores crosscutting, evidence-based approaches to violence prevention, and the Forum has convened four workshops to this point exploring various elements of violence prevention. The workshops are designed to examine such approaches from multiple perspectives and at multiple levels of society. In particular, the workshop on the contagion of violence focused on exploring the epidemiology of the contagion, describing possible processes and mechanisms by which violence is transmitted, examining how contextual factors mitigate or exacerbate the issue. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary covers the major topics that arose during the 2-day workshop. It is organized by important elements of the infectious disease model so as to present the contagion of violence in a larger context and in a more compelling and comprehensive way.

Author : Rumbi Mabuwa
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 1564322483

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Seeking Protection by Rumbi Mabuwa Pdf

Human Rights Watch presents the full text of its October 2000 report entitled "Seeking Protection: Addressing Sexual and Domestic Violence in Tanzania's Refugee Camps" (ISBN: 1-56432-247-5). The agency notes that women face particular protection and security risks in refugee camps in Tanzania and are vulnerable to rape, sexual assault, and other forms of sexual violence. Human Rights Watch recommends that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) should implement guidelines on the protection of refugee women and the prevention of sexual violence in all refugee situations.

Author : Yonas Bayruau Gebreiyosus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 365640111X

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Gender-based violence against female refugees in refugee camps : in case of Mai Ayni refugee camp, Northern Ethiopia by Yonas Bayruau Gebreiyosus Pdf

Author : Katharina Crepaz,Ulrich Becker,Elisabeth Wacker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783658291778

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Health in Diversity – Diversity in Health by Katharina Crepaz,Ulrich Becker,Elisabeth Wacker Pdf

European public discourse often frames (forced) migration solely as a security issue and ignores the implications of societal diversity for health, quality-of-life and well-being, in both Africa and Europe. The present volume offers an interdisciplinary and international look at the relationship between refugees, diversity, and health, including health care policies, socio-political framework conditions, environmental factors, the situation in refugee camps, quality-of-life approaches and economical perspectives.

Author : Eileen Pittaway,Linda Albina Bartolomei
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811909160

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Only Rape! Human Rights and Gender Equality for Refugee Women by Eileen Pittaway,Linda Albina Bartolomei Pdf

This book charts the roller coaster ride taken by the authors over the past 33 years, in the ongoing fight to acknowledge, prevent, and respond to the rape and sexual abuse of women in conflict and displacement situations. They have worked with an international network of academics, refugee women, and human rights activists in 22 countries. The story moves between refugee camps and the United Nations, refugee settlements in cities and national governments. Theory and ethical research methods are an important part of the story. At times it is very confronting, sometimes amusing and often uplifting.

Author : Wenona Giles,Jennifer Hyndman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520237919

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Sites of Violence by Wenona Giles,Jennifer Hyndman Pdf

In this book, militarization, nationalism, and globalization are scrutinized at sites of violent conflict from a range of feminist pespectives.

Author : Efrat Arbel,Catherine Dauvergne,Jenni Millbank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135038113

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Gender in Refugee Law by Efrat Arbel,Catherine Dauvergne,Jenni Millbank Pdf

Questions of gender have strongly influenced the development of international refugee law over the last few decades. This volume assesses the progress toward appropriate recognition of gender-related persecution in refugee law. It documents the advances made following intense advocacy around the world in the 1990s, and evaluates the extent to which gender has been successfully integrated into refugee law. Evaluating the research and advocacy agendas for gender in refugee law ten years beyond the 2002 UNHCR Gender Guidelines, the book investigates the current status of gender in refugee law. It examines gender-related persecution claims of both women and men, including those based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and explores how the development of an anti-refugee agenda in many Western states exponentially increases vulnerability for refugees making gendered claims. The volume includes contributions from scholars and members of the advocacy community that allow the book to examine conceptual and doctrinal themes arising at the intersection of gender and refugee law, and specific case studies across major Western refugee-receiving nations. The book will be of great interest and value to researchers and students of asylum and immigration law, international politics, and gender studies.

Author : Andrew Morrison,Mary Ellsberg,Sarah Bott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:931679021

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Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the Latin American and Caribbean Region by Andrew Morrison,Mary Ellsberg,Sarah Bott Pdf

The authors present an overview of gender-based violence (GBV) in Latin America, with special emphasis on good practice interventions to prevent GBV or offer services to its survivors or perpetrators. Intimate partner violence and sexual coercion are the most common forms of GBV, and these are the types of GBV that they analyze. GBV has serious consequences for women's health and well-being, ranging from fatal outcomes, such as homicide, suicide, and AIDS-related deaths, to nonfatal outcomes, such as physical injuries, chronic pain syndrome, gastrointestinal disorders, complications during pregnancy, miscarriage, and low birth-weight of children. GBV also poses significant costs for the economies of developing countries, including lower worker productivity and incomes, and lower rates of accumulation of human and social capital. The authors examine good practice approaches in justice, health, education, and multisectoral approaches. In each sector, they identify good practices for: (1) law and policies; (2) institutional reforms; (3) community-level interventions; and (4) individual behavior change strategies.

Author : Donna Pankhurst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415956482

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Gendered Peace by Donna Pankhurst Pdf

This volume focuses on the efforts made by women (and those made on their behalf) to hold to account those who committed crimes against them during times of war and conflict.

Author : Sarah Bott,Andrew Morrison,Mary Ellsberg
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Sexual harassment of women
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Preventing and Responding to Gender-based Violence in Middle and Low-income Countries by Sarah Bott,Andrew Morrison,Mary Ellsberg Pdf

Worldwide, patterns of violence against women differ markedly from violence against men. For example, women are more likely than men to be sexually assaulted or killed by someone they know. The United Nations has defined violence against women as "gender-based" violence, to acknowledge that such violence is rooted in gender inequality and is often tolerated and condoned by laws, institutions, and community norms. Violence against women is not only a profound violation of human rights, but also a costly impediment to a country's national development. While gender-based violence occurs in many forms throughout the life cycle, this review focuses on two of the most common types-physical intimate partner violence and sexual violence by any perpetrator. Unfortunately, the knowledge base about effective initiatives to prevent and respond to gender-based violence is relatively limited. Few approaches have been rigorously evaluated, even in high-income countries. And such evaluations involve numerous methodological challenges. Nonetheless, the authors review what is known about more and less effective-or at least promising-approaches to prevent and respond to gender-based violence. They present definitions, recent statistics, health consequences, costs, and risk factors of gender-based violence. The authors analyze good practice initiatives in the justice, health, and education sectors, as well as multisectoral approaches. For each of these sectors, they examine initiatives that have addressed laws and policies, institutional reforms, community mobilization, and individual behavior change strategies. Finally, the authors identify priorities for future research and action, including funding research on the health and socioeconomic costs of violence against women, encouraging science-based program evaluations, disseminating evaluation results across countries, promoting investment in effective prevention and treatment initiatives, and encouraging public-private partnerships.

Author : Victoria Canning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317520597

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Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System by Victoria Canning Pdf

Winner of the 2018 British Society of Criminology Book Prize Britain is often heralded as a country in which the rights and welfare of survivors of conflict and persecution are well embedded, and where the standard of living conditions for those seeking asylum is relatively high. Drawing on a decade of activism and research in the North West of England, this book contends that, on the contrary, conditions are often structurally violent. For survivors of gendered violence, harm inflicted throughout the process of seeking asylum can be intersectional and compound the impacts of previous experiences of violent continuums. The everyday threat of detention and deportation; poor housing and inadequate welfare access; and systemic cuts to domestic and sexual violence support all contribute to a temporal limbo which limits women’s personal autonomy and access to basic human rights. By reflecting on evidence from interviews, focus groups, activist participation and oral history, Gendered Harm and Structural Violence provides a unique insight into the everyday impacts of policy and practice that arguably result in the infliction of further gendered harms on survivors of violence and persecution. Of interest to students and scholars of criminology, zemiology, sociology, human rights, migration policy, state violence and gender, this book develops on and adds to the expanding literatures around immigration, crimmigration and asylum.