Protection from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation 2003, para. (a) v

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[Calls upon States, UNHCR and its implementing and operational partners to ensure that appropriate systems to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence, including sexual abuse and exploitation, are in place, ensuring the needs of women and children, as well those of vulnerable persons, are addressed at all times; and recommends that measures to combat sexual abuse and exploitation of refugees and asylum-seekers be guided by the importance of:] Ensuring that camp governance is conducted in an equitable manner that empowers women, children and vulnerable groups and that the physical layout of camps is designed in such a way as to make such individuals less vulnerable to sexual abuse and exploitation;
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Negotiated soft law
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Children
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2003
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
ExCom Conclusion No. 98, Protection from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (2003), OP (a) v.
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OP
Paragraph number
(a) v