refugee women and girls Archives - International Alliance of Women https://womenalliance.org/tag/refugee-women-and-girls/ Equal Rights – Equal Responsibilities Tue, 13 Sep 2016 11:48:32 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://womenalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/iaw-circular-36x36.png refugee women and girls Archives - International Alliance of Women https://womenalliance.org/tag/refugee-women-and-girls/ 32 32 Refugee Women and Girls https://womenalliance.org/refugee-women-and-girls/ Tue, 13 Sep 2016 11:29:25 +0000 http://womenalliance.org/?p=3219 In her September Newsletter IAW President Joanna Manganara analyses the situation of refugee women and girl.

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]]> According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the number of refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced across the world has surpassed 50 million for the first time since World War II. Women and children constitute the majority of refugees and the internally displaced people. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1.015.078 people arrived by sea in the EU in 2015. Of these people, 25% were children, 17% were women and 58 % were men.

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