A recently published report on the state of affairs for refugee and asylum-seeking women residing in Israel sheds a painful light on the conditions these women live in and the corners they are pushed ...

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Many women have been forced to leave their home countries and seek better shelter and safety in the United States. While asylum applications have decreased since 2017 — mainly because of U.S. policy ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female asylum seekers, often survivors of sexual violence, are denied dignity and privacy by being routinely watched and searched by male staff in Britain's ...

Women who face persecution on the grounds of gender-based violence are entitled to asylum under the Council of Europe's Istanbul Convention, and that was backed up by a landmark ruling by the EU's top ...

The UN refugee agency has welcomed a new set of international guidelines, adopted today by the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, calling for countries to ...

With drawings and messages painted on stones, a group of refugee and asylum-seeking women chose to mark the 16 Days of Activism against Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV). Many of them being ...

This month marks the second anniversary of our evacuation from Kabul. The images of those final days are still very fresh in our minds, as are the memories of soldiers and Marines who gave their last ...

The Belgian government said Wednesday it will no longer provide shelter for single men seeking asylum, arguing its insufficient reception capacity should prioritize families, women and children.

UB Art Galleries is asking Buffalo residents for help in collecting and documenting personal mementos from women who were once confined to Buffalo State Asylum. Many of us have heard stories of ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female asylum seekers, often survivors of sexual violence, are denied dignity and privacy by being routinely watched and searched by male staff in Britain's ...