should receive special protection, including the proper design and
location of camps and the adequate staffing of camps;
·
Recognize the importance of fully involving women in designing
rehabilitation policies in post-conflict situations and take steps to
assist household economies, including the social and economic
conditions of women-headed households and widows;
·
Ensure the physical safety and security of all refugee women and girls
and those internally displaced by, inter alia, adequately providing
for and increasing their access to the right of return to their
country or place of origin, and the participation of women in the
committees responsible for the management of the camp(s), and ensure
that camps are designed in accordance with the 1995 Guidelines on the
Protection of Refugee Women27 of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees; and arrange for gender-sensitive legal, social and
medical services in camps, and for the talents and capabilities of
refugee and displaced women and girls to be fully integrated in the
development and implementation of these programmes while they are in
these camps;
·
Provide refugee victims of sexual violence and their families with
adequate medical and psychosocial care, including culturally sensitive
counselling, and ensure confidentiality;
·
Take measures in accordance with international law with a view to
alleviating any negative impact of economic sanctions on women and
children;
·
Mainstream a gender perspective, as appropriate, into national
immigration and asylum policies, regulations and practices, in order
to extend protection to those women whose claim for protection is
based on gender-related persecution;
·
Provide and strengthen assistance to all women and girls in conflict
and post-conflict situations, including through non-governmental
organizations, as appropriate. Refugee women and men must have equal
rights in the administration and distribution of goods and services in
the camps;
·
Condemn and bring to an immediate end massive violations of human
rights, especially in the form of genocide, and ethnic cleansing as a
strategy of war, and its consequences, such as rape, including
systematic rape of women in war situations;
·
Encourage rehabilitation centres to ensure that the knowledge and
professions of displaced and refugee people are utilized;
·
Mainstream a gender perspective into humanitarian responses to crises
and armed conflicts and into post-conflict reconstruction activities.
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Geneva, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1995.
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