Violence against Women and Girls in Humanitarian Emergencies

Publication language
English
Pages
25pp
Date published
01 Nov 2013
Publisher
Chase
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Accountability and Participation, Comms, media & information, Gender, Health, Monitoring, Needs assessment, Principles & ethics, Protection, human rights & security
Organisations
UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)

This briefing paper provides an introduction to the issue of VAWG in humanitarian
emergencies. It will help advisers and others to make the case for why DFID should do more
to protect women and girls in emergency situations. It is aimed at a broad, internal DFID
audience: for a range of advisory groups (not just humanitarian advisers, but conflict,
governance and SDAs), for programme managers and for other generalist staff working in
countries prone to, or affected by emergencies.