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General Conclusion On International Protection 2008, para. (o)

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Welcomes the progress that has been achieved in increasing the number of States offering opportunities for resettlement and the number of refugees resettled, in particular of women and girls at heightened risk;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2008
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (q)

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Efforts to ensure the progressive implementation of the above-mentioned mechanisms and standards can benefit greatly from partnerships and the development of relevant public policies, supported as appropriate by the international community.
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (p) iii

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[Recommended longer-term responses and solutions include partnerships and actions to:] consider using special evacuation programmes for internally displaced women and girls at risk, if necessary, given that resettlement is very rarely available to them;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (o) i

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[Developing medium-term responses for individuals includes partnerships and actions to:] monitor on an ongoing basis initiatives taken with regard to individual safety, well-being and needs and ensure accountability for actions taken;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (m)

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Recommended actions by States, UNHCR, other relevant agencies and partners to respond to the situation of individual women and girls at risk are listed non-exhaustively below.
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (j) v

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[Secure environments are to be established and strengthened, including by partnerships and actions to:] strengthen justice systems to uphold the rights of women and girls and bring perpetrators of SGBV to justice, combat trafficking and protect victims; and
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (j) ii

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[Secure environments are to be established and strengthened, including by partnerships and actions to:] maintain the civilian and humanitarian character of asylum, which is a primary responsibility of host States;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (h)

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Recommended preventive strategies to be adopted by States, UNHCR, other relevant agencies and partners may include the identification, assessment and monitoring of risks.
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Refugee Women and International Protection 1985, para. (c)

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Noted that refugee women and girls constitute the majority of the world refugee population and that many of them are exposed to special problems in the international protection field;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
1985
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (g) vi

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[Recommends that States, UNHCR and other relevant agencies and partners work in close collaboration to prevent children from being put at heightened risk, and respond, as necessary, through the general prevention, response and solution measures listed non-exhaustively below:] Strengthen or promote the establishment of child protection committees, as appropriate, with equal and meaningful participation of girls and boys;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (c) ii

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Calls on States, UNHCR and other relevant agencies and partners to put in place modalities, as appropriate, for early and continuous identification of children at heightened risk. Risk factors that put children in a situation of heightened risk can include both risks in the wider protection environment and risks resulting from individual circumstances, taking into account the cumulative effects of being exposed to several risk factors, such as:] Individual risk factors, including, but not limited to: unaccompanied and separated children, particularly those in child-headed households as well as those accompanied by abusive or exploitative adults; stateless children; adolescents, in particular girl mothers and their children; child victims of trafficking and sexual abuse, including pornography, pedophilia and prostitution; survivors of torture; survivors of violence, in particular sexual and gender-based violence and other forms of abuse and exploitation; children who get married under the age specified in national laws and/or children in forced marriages; children who are or have been associated with armed forces or groups; children in detention; children who suffer from social discrimination; children with mental or physical disabilities; children living with or affected by HIV and AIDS and children suffering from other serious diseases; and children out of school;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (b) xii

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[Recognizes that strategies and actions under this operational guidance should be underpinned by the following principles and approaches, amongst others:] A two-pronged approach comprising: (1) mainstreaming of age, gender and diversity into all UNHCR programmes, policies and operations, and (2) targeted action, to ensure that all children, girls and boys of diverse backgrounds, can enjoy protection on an equal basis; and
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. (b) viii

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[Recognizes that strategies and actions under this operational guidance should be underpinned by the following principles and approaches, amongst others:] The active promotion of gender equality is essential to the protection of girls and boys, particularly those at heightened risk;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Children At Risk 2007, para. 5

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Acknowledging that, while both girls and boys face many of the same protection risks, they also experience protection challenges specific to their gender, and reaffirming that, while many risks may be prevalent in all settings, camp and urban environments may generate different protection needs,
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Environment
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Children
  • Girls
Year
2007
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (p) v

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[Recommended longer-term responses and solutions include partnerships and actions to:] ensure support, such as medical and psychosocial care, is available to women and girls at risk to facilitate their recovery and integration, whether this be in the context of local integration, return, resettlement or other humanitarian programmes.
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Health
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (o) iii

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[Developing medium-term responses for individuals includes partnerships and actions to:] strengthen identified individuals' access to education, vocational training and recreational programmes with childcare and promote community-based livelihood strategies which target women and girls at risk, especially in prolonged displacement situations.
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Education
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (o) ii

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[Developing medium-term responses for individuals includes partnerships and actions to:] help secure the access of women and girls at risk to justice and reduce impunity, including by advising, accompanying and supporting them through initiatives such as women's legal clinics, local women's associations, witness relocation programmes and mobile courts in remote areas; and
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Violence
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (n) iv

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[Ensuring early identification and immediate response involves partnerships and actions to:] ensure that refugee status determination procedures provide female asylum-seekers with effective access to gender-sensitive procedures and recognize that gender-related forms of persecution in the context of Article 1A (2) of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees may constitute grounds for refugee status.
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (n) iii

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[Ensuring early identification and immediate response involves partnerships and actions to:] determine the best interests of girls at risk, provide alternative accommodation, physical protection and interim foster care as required, as well as initiate family tracing and ensure family unity wherever possible and in their best interests; and
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Families
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (n) i

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[Ensuring early identification and immediate response involves partnerships and actions to:] establish mechanisms, based on an analysis of the risk factors outlined above, to identify individual women and girls at risk, determine and implement appropriate immediate responses and subsequent solutions;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (l)

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Financial and other necessary resources should also be mobilized, as appropriate, including by action to ensure the provision of protection and material assistance and timely durable solutions based on international solidarity, cooperation and burden and responsibility sharing.
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (k) iii

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[The empowerment of displaced women and girls is to be enhanced including by partnerships and actions to:] work with the displaced community, including men and boys, to rebuild family and community support systems undermined by conflict and flight and to raise awareness of the rights of women and girls and understanding of gender roles.
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (j) iv

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[Secure environments are to be established and strengthened, including by partnerships and actions to:] strengthen dispute resolution skills in the displaced community and take measures to assure confidentiality, so as to enable women and girls at risk to remain safely in their community and build relations between host and displaced communities to create a safe and non-exploitative environment;)
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (j) iii

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[Secure environments are to be established and strengthened, including by partnerships and actions to:] ensure the individual documentation of refugee women and separated and unaccompanied refugee girls and register births, marriages and divorces in a timely manner;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Humanitarian
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Persons on the move
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (j) i

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[Secure environments are to be established and strengthened, including by partnerships and actions to:] prevent and respond to SGBV in accordance with international standards set out in UNHCR and other relevant guidelines,including through provision of quality health services to address the specific needs of women and girls at risk;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (i) vi

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[Identification, assessment and monitoring of risks faced by women and girls in the wider protection environment are to be strengthened by partnerships and actions to:] identify and prevent SGBV and strengthen the capacity of national and local authorities to carry out their protection functions more effectively.
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Gender
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (i) v

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[Identification, assessment and monitoring of risks faced by women and girls in the wider protection environment are to be strengthened by partnerships and actions to:] promote gender balance in staff recruitment and take active measures to increase the number of female professionals working in the field;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (i) iv

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[Identification, assessment and monitoring of risks faced by women and girls in the wider protection environment are to be strengthened by partnerships and actions to:] mainstream age, gender and diversity analysis into all programmes, policies and operations to ensure all can benefit equally from activities and inequality is not perpetuated;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Gender
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (i) ii

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[Identification, assessment and monitoring of risks faced by women and girls in the wider protection environment are to be strengthened by partnerships and actions to:] incorporate gender issues into early warning mechanisms, alerts and contingency plans, conduct a rapid situation analysis at the start of a new emergency and integrate gender-based risk analysis into inter-agency assessments;
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Topic(s)
  • Gender
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • Girls
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (g)

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Responding more effectively to protection problems faced by women and girls at risk requires a holistic approach that combines preventive strategies and individual responses and solutions. It involves collaboration between, and the involvement of, all relevant actors, including men and boys, to enhance understanding and promote respect for women's and girls' rights.
Body
Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Document type
ExCom Conclusion
Person(s) affected
  • Boys
  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2006
Date added
Aug 19, 2019
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