Refugee women face gender-specific challenges in navigating daily life at every stage of their migration experience. Common challenges for all refugee women, regardless of other demographic data, are access to healthcare and physical abuse and instances of discrimination, sexual violence, and human trafficking are the most common ones. But even if women don't become victims of such actions, they often face abuse and disregard for their specific needs and experiences, which leads to complex consequences including demoralization, stigmatization, and mental and physical health decay. The lack of access to appropriate resources from international humanitarian aid organizations is compounded by the prevailing gender assumptions around the world, though recent shifts in gender mainstreaming are aiming to combat these commonalities.
Refugee women in Chad
Health clinic inside of a refugee camp
South Sudanese refugees being served food. Many of them complain of hunger due to the food rationing by World Food Program
Nearly half of all refugees are children, and almost one in three children living outside their country of birth is a refugee. These numbers encompass children whose refugee status has been formally confirmed, as well as children in refugee-like situations.
Bantu refugee children from Somalia at a farewell party in Florida before being relocated to other places in the United States
A South Sudanese refugee girl in Rhino camp refugee settlement
Former child soldiers in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 5 March 2022