A non-profit, multi-ethnic organization that promotes inclusion, independence, personal leadership, and strong communities by providing refugee and immigrant women and their families with culturally and linguistically appropriate services. ReWA advocates for social justice, public policy changes, and equal access to services while respecting cultural values and the right to self-determination.
Guide to working with LGBT refugees and asylees.
A guide for those seeking asylum because of being LGBTQ or due to HIV status..
A guide for practitioners of best practices to assist asylum seekers who identify as LGBT or HIV-positive.
Established to support the resettlement of LGBT refugees and asylees.
Improves the lives and protects the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. WRC researches their needs, identifies solutions and advocates for programs and policies to strengthen their resilience and drive change in humanitarian practice.
From Greece to Sweden, refugee women are at greater risk of abuse and exploitation because governments and humanitarian organizations are failing them. In this series of four assessments from November 2015 through May 2016, the WRC found that opportunities to protect and empower refugee women are systematically squandered.
These tools, currently in pilot form, help practitioners to assess and respond to urban refugees’ risks of gender-based violence.
An analysis of the unique protection challenges and opportunities afforded by urban settings, including the risks specific to different groups.
In Kampala, the WRC partnered with Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU), an organization that provides integrated SRH and GBV services to Ugandans, including Ugandan sex workers. The goal was to expand their services to be inclusive of refugee women. This case study outlines two different interventions that were conducted: (1) a free mobile health clinic that went to refugee neighborhoods and provided a range of GBV and medical services, and (2) a peer education program conducted with refugee women engaged in sex work in Uganda—both in Kampala and in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement—that was designed to address information, service, and support gaps affecting these women’s health and safety.
