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Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Homepage: http://www.womenscommission.org
The Women's Commission's mission is to improve the lives and defend the rights of refugee women and children, including the internally displaced, returnees and asylum seekers.
We work in consultation with refugee women and children to ensure that their voices are heard. We seek solutions to seemingly intractable problems by:
- Assessing and monitoring the situation of refugee women and children through research, field visits and consultation
- Identifying and documenting the widely overlooked problems and issues that affect refugee women and children
- Developing and promoting policies and practices that will lead to real on-the-ground change by advocating to policy makers, key organizations, donors and the public to ensure their implementation.
Through our advocacy, we ensure that refugee women's and children's voices are heard in the halls of power and taken into account in the decision-making process.
Our work contributes to long-term solutions, thereby lessening the likelihood of continuing cycles of conflict and displacement.