Gender and Forced Displacement in Humanitarian Policy Discourse: The Missing Link
Published August 2, 2023 Dr Anoji Ekanayake
Dr Rajith W. D. Lakshman
Kiran Rahim
Professor Brad K. Blitz
Dr Jiyar Aghapouri
Amna Javed
Maria Malik
Project: Gender and Forced Displacement
This paper reports on a study that examines how gender has been referenced in United Nations (UN), supranational and state documents on forced migration over the past 40 years. It is motivated by the premise that humanitarian protection discourses reflect broader institutional priorities and ideologies and may therefore expose gaps that reveal the relative importance given to the category of gender. The evidence presented below is the result of an extensive review of policy documents on Afghanistan, Kurdistan Region-Iraq (KRI), and Sri Lanka contained in the Refworld database.
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