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Achieving durable solutions for internally displaced persons in urban settings 2014, para. 34 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Internally displaced persons in informal urban settlements typically reside in makeshift shelters, where they are barely protected from intruders and are exposed to the risk of sexual and gender-based violence. Urban displacement leads to changes in gender relations, thereby increasing risks of domestic violence, sexual and gender-based violence, survival sex, exploitation and forced labour. Access to protection and assistance for internally displaced women is vital. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Special Procedures' report |
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| 2014 | ||
Human rights of internally displaced persons in the context of the Post-2015 development agenda 2015, para. 63 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | As highlighted by the Special Rapporteur in his address to the Security Council as well as in a press statement marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, internally displaced women and girls are often disproportionately affected by displacement. The Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo, has said: "They flee to escape arbitrary killings, rape, torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, forced recruitment or starvation, but too often, they encounter the same level of insecurity, violence and threats of violence, reinforced by a climate of impunity, at their destination." | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Special Procedures' report |
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| 2015 | ||
Internally displaced women: progress, challenges and the way ahead 2013, para. 48 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The pursuit of durable solutions raises a range of concerns for IDW. Although the choice of a durable solution is, in principle, an individual matter, in practice decisions concerning durable solutions are usually made by families or communities, often marginalizing women's preferences. For example, particularly when they have been the targets of SGBV, IDW may be deterred from returning due to traumatic associations or fear of further attacks. Yet, in some instances families or other actors may pressure women to return despite these concerns. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Special Procedures' report |
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| 2013 | ||
Internally displaced women: progress, challenges and the way ahead 2013, para. 38 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Access to justice and accountability mechanisms remains limited and inadequate for most IDW. In some cases, women are constrained to use customary justice systems, which often discriminate against them and apply principles in contradiction with national and international standards. In others, formal justice mechanisms may also discriminate against women and therefore not provide the best outcome for IDW. The Special Rapporteur finds the most glaring gap to be in access to justice for survivors of sexual violence. Ensuring legal justice for survivors can be transformative because it sends a clear message rejecting impunity for this heinous crime. However, in some instances IDW not only lack access to effective remedies, but have themselves been charged when bringing forward allegations of rape by State security forces in camps. Conversely, legal aid, where available, has proven invaluable to IDW seeking access to justice for SGBV, as well as for other crimes and legal claims. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Special Procedures' report |
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| 2013 | ||
Internally displaced women: progress, challenges and the way ahead 2013, para. 36 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Given that nearly 50 per cent of survivors of sexual assault are under 18 years of age, the Special Rapporteur is concerned about the prevailing tendency to overlook the needs of children and youth in this area. Additionally, a stronger focus on prevention is required regarding SGBV within internally displaced households and communities. At present, most SGBV prevention and response programmes focus on "stranger" rape rather than the more prevalent forms of sexual violence experienced within households and communities (e.g. intimate partner violence), and the problematic coping practices that IDW may be compelled to adopt (e.g. early marriages). Moreover, given that women with disabilities in non-displacement settings are more likely to be victims of sexual violence and abuse, the levels of sexual violence against women and girls with disabilities amongst displaced and conflict-affected populations are likely to be even higher. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Special Procedures' report |
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| 2013 | ||
Internally displaced women: progress, challenges and the way ahead 2013, para. 35 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | There is therefore a pressing need for a more preventative approach to these challenges. In this regard, the Protocol on the Prevention and Suppression of Sexual Violence against Women and Children (2006) of the Great Lakes region and the model law annexed thereto, the 2011 Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belém do Pará) provide some important entry points and examples in terms of legal frameworks. Fuel strategies and livelihood initiatives targeting displaced women and girls, and those at risk of displacement, are further practical measures which can be central to reducing exposure to sexual violence. Reducing vulnerability to sexual violence also entails ensuring that survivors have access to appropriate support, including reproductive and psychosocial services and that adequate resources are devoted to gender-sensitive site planning. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Special Procedures' report |
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| 2013 | ||
Internally displaced women: progress, challenges and the way ahead 2013, para. 34 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Despite myriad training, guidelines and manuals, displaced women and girls continue to be subject to egregious levels of sexual violence. In some situations, sexual violence or other forms of gender-based violence is used as a deliberate tactic to instil terror, and force displacement, or to discourage IDPs from demanding their rights. Beyond being a significant cause of displacement and a grievous human rights violation in its own right, SGBV or the perceived risk of it can also curtail women's access to a range of rights and services. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Special Procedures' report |
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| 2013 | ||
Internally displaced women: progress, challenges and the way ahead 2013, para. 30 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Some progress has also been made in developing guidelines on prevention of and response to SGBV; setting standards for the inclusion of sexual violence concerns in peace agreements and ceasefires; implementing training programmes to prevent sexual exploitation by peacekeepers and humanitarians; rolling-out monitoring analysis and reporting arrangements in several countries pursuant to Security Council resolution 1960 (2010); developing early warning indicators on sexual violence; and establishing targets to increase the proportion of female police officers in peacekeeping operations to 20 per cent by 2014. However, these issues continue to represent stark challenges. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Special Procedures' report |
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| 2013 | ||
A more systematized and equitable response to internally displaced persons outside camps 2012, para. 43 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Improved and more systematized responses to IDPs outside camps, can also help address a number of other issues, including the precarious nature and protection problems raised by unmonitored and unassisted hosting arrangements such as those between IDPs and host families or friends. Highly or entirely dependent on the assistance and shelter provided by host families, certain groups of IDPs, such as vulnerable categories of women, children and the elderly, may be particularly at risk of a number of protection concerns, including abuse, exploitation, and sexual violence by their hosts. In this regard, this mandate has recommended the establishment of appropriate monitoring and ombuds-mechanisms, and other activities such as visits by social workers, working with local associations and counselling centres, and the establishment of a hotline, in order enhance the protection of IDPs living within host-family arrangements. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Special Procedures' report |
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| 2012 | ||
Looking forward: addressing new challenges and consolidating gains 2011, para. 69 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Sexual and gender-based violence is frequently used as a tactic of war to forcibly displace civilians in order to achieve military or political objectives, to punish communities for their political allegiances, or as a way of conducting inter-ethnic fighting. The impunity that accompanies these crimes is such that armed actors sometimes return to conduct mass rapes on survivors a second time, even after displacement. The risk of this type of violence during displacement is well documented and occurs in the context of both conflict and non-conflict induced displacement situations. Women are also particularly affected by the breakdown of basic infrastructure, given their role as care-givers, and when assistance is insufficient they often face the dilemma of having to subject themselves to sexual exploitation in order to feed their children. Once the reasons for displacement have ended, women are rarely included in peace processes or decisions relating to their future, so that durable solutions fail to take into account what would actually enable these women to rebuild their lives. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Special Procedures' report |
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| 2011 | ||
Looking forward: addressing new challenges and consolidating gains 2011, para. 67 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | 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. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
| Special Procedures' report |
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