Looking forward: addressing new challenges and consolidating gains 2011, para. 67
Paragraph- Original document
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Paragraph text
The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement explicitly call on States to provide protection for women and girls, including by safeguarding them from gender-specific violence and by ensuring their rights to equal access to services and participation in assistance programs. Yet, we know that abuses against displaced women and girls continue to be perpetrated with impunity in many parts of the world, and that many do not have adequate access to key rights and services, or to adequate physical, legal or social protection. While efforts have been made to strengthen legal protection for displaced women who are survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, more needs to be done both at this level, as well as in terms of concrete assistance so that these women and their families can rebuild their lives and durable solutions be found together with them. Assistance without durable solutions will never be sufficient to improve their situation and their vulnerability to further abuse and human rights violations.
- Document legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Document body
- Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
- Document means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Document year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Internally Displaced Persons, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/16/43, para. 67.
- Paragraph number
- 67