Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (2019), para. 08
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Deeply concerned that gender inequalities limit the control that women and girls have over decisions governing their lives and their access to resources such as food, water, agricultural input, land, credit, energy, technology, justice, education, health-care services, adequate housing, social protection and employment, resulting in increased exposure to disaster-induced risks and losses relating to their livelihoods, and that failure to address the structural barriers faced by women and girls in realizing their rights will exacerbate gender- based violence and inequalities and compound intersecting forms of discrimination in situations of crisis,