Background Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global health, human rights, and protection
issue, which can increase during emergencies. GBV coordination is an essential component …

Background: Gender based violence (GBV) remains one of the most serious threats to the
health and safety of women and girls worldwide. The problem is even more pronounced in …

Full article: Systemic violence against Syrian refugee women and the myth of effective
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Background Armed conflict potentially poses serious challenges to access and quality of
maternal and reproductive health (MRH) services, resulting in increased maternal morbidity …

Sexual violence is highly prevalent in armed conflict and other humanitarian crises and
attracting increasing policy and practice attention. This systematic review aimed to canvas …

Displacement is a hallmark of modern humanitarian emergencies. Displacement itself is a
traumatic event that can result in illness or death. Survivors face challenges including lack of …

Objectives Maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity rates are particularly grim in
conflict, post-conflict and other crisis settings, a situation partly blamed on non-availability …

Women and girls are disproportionately affected by conflict because of a lack of access to
essential services, as learnt from humanitarian crises in recent years. 1, 2 Poor access to …

Background Forced migration significantly endangers health. Women face numerous health
risks, including sexual violence, lack of contraception, sexually transmitted disease, and …

Background Training of lay refugees/internally displaced persons (IDPs) and deploying
them to provide basic health services to other women, children, and families in camps is …