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In pursuing the effective implementation of refugee rights, UNHCR has focused on refugee women.

The staffing of regional refugee women coordinator posts should strengthen the field implementation of existing policies and guidelines on refugee women.

8 March two refugee women and two refugee children were detained by members of AFDL at Kingulube

Vlado Puljiz, quot Refugee women and children in Croatia quot

It stressed that legal aid must not exclude refugee women.

Refugee services have always taken women and children as priority.

The Agenda addresses the protection of refugee children under goal 6 of the Programme of Action, Meeting the protection needs of refugee women and refugee children .

The special needs of refugee women and children were also emphasized.

The situation of refugee women and children called for special attention, and he welcomed the UNHCR initiatives launched to that end, including the Reference Group for Refugee Women and the worldwide evaluation of programmes for refugee children and adolescents.

49. Delegations welcomed the oral progress report on activities for refugee women and gender mainstreaming, and commended UNHCR on its efforts towards integrating refugee women and gender into its programmes.

Refugee women who gain asylum face even greater difficulties in host countries.

Refugee women had access to sanitary materials in an increased number of operations.

Examples during the quadrennial period 1992 1995 include (a) quot Refugee and Internally Displaced Women A Development Perspective quot , Refugee Policy Group, November 1995

241. The Committee notes the large number of refugee women currently resident in Tanzania and requests further information on the situation of refugee women and any Government programmes in place to address their needs.

His delegation welcomed the sustained efforts of UNHCR to protect refugee women and children.

Her delegation welcomed the activities of UNHCR in support of refugee women and children.

Conference on quot The Rights of Immigrant and Refugee Women quot , Athens, November 1992

This approach includes active participation of refugee women, men, girls and boys of diverse backgrounds.

The children of such refugee women cannot register with the Agency under current registration guidelines.

There was also a request for an evaluation of initiatives in respect to refugee women.

Rita Wiesinger, quot Refugee women and children reflections on future planning and programme implementation quot

There was special reference to the particular needs and rights of refugee women and children, and voluntary repatriation was identified as the preferred solution to refugee problems.

(d) An evaluation of the implementation of the quot Guidelines for Refugee Women quot was conducted by a Refugee Policy Group apos s Senior Adviser for UNHCR

The previous expected accomplishment referring to protection needs of refugee women, children and the elderly now refers to protection needs of refugee women and children it has left aside the elderly an increasing population without an accomplishment target.

In one example, volunteers in one Botswana refugee camp trained fellow refugees, refugee men formed a community initiative called Sex, Men and AIDS and refugee women launched a Peace Messengers group to tackle sexual violence, HIV and AIDS.

In particular, the rape of refugee women as a weapon of conflict and the abduction and humiliation of refugee children continued to be routine features of displacement situations.

Following three independent evaluations on refugee women, refugee children and the role of community services,8 UNHCR launched an age and gender mainstreaming pilot project in early 2004.

The situation of indigenous women, in particular displaced and refugee women, is particularly severe, and should be addressed through targeted, culturally appropriate programmes.

One day seminar on refugee women, on the theme quot Women in search of identity quot , held in collaboration with UNHCR in 1996.

The President of the Law Reform Commission, the Ombudsman and the Refugee Applications Commissioner were women.

Without appropriate and affordable housing, refugee women and their families remain on the periphery of society.

Merit based university scholarships were awarded to 111 Palestine refugee secondary school graduates, including 33 women.

I should add that sadly among those most affected are refugee and returnee women and children.

29. UNHCR has also been concerned about the dangers to which refugee women are regularly exposed.

51. Several delegations expressed concern that current budgetary constraints might negatively affect programmes for refugee women.

Following the Beijing Conference, UNHCR set up a Reference Group for Refugee Women to advise and assist the High Commissioner in the implementation of the UNHCR Policy and Guidelines on Refugee Women, identifying obstacles to their implementation and recommending solutions.

As for the follow up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and the full implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Thailand welcomed the actions taken by UNHCR relating to refugee women, including the strengthening of field implementation of existing guidelines on refugee women, the continuation of UNHCR training programmes for gender issues and the development of the Office apos s human rights training module targeted at refugee women.

Several delegations urged UNHCR, in particular, to implement the recommendations on refugee women, children and the environment.