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ID Code Z1310.5R0680001
Title Refugees
Volume No.100
Author
Publisher United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Place of Publication Geneva
Publication Date 1995/01/01
Language 英語 eng
Pages 30
Size (cm) 29
ISSN 0252-791X
TOC • REFUGEES,
FEMININE PLURAL
The special needs of women, ranging
from prevention of rape to the
provision of sanitary towels, are all
too often overlooked in vast, sprawling
refugee camps 3
• DO WE REALLY CARE?
UNHCR started trying to improve
its protection and assistance for
women refugees a decade ago. One
of the main obstacles has been
entrenched attitudes within the
organization 10
• FOSTER FAMILIES IN RWANDA
Believing that unaccompanied
children are better off living with
foster parents than in institutions,
Food for the Hungry International
set up a program to support those
who support the children 14
• STRATEGY FOR SURVIVAL
A recent study of South East Asian
refugees who were resettled in Canada
challenges many preconceptions about
the extent to which refugees depend
on the state
• SPACING CHILDREN,
PREVENTING AIDS
An ambitious reproductive health
program for Rwandese refugees in
Tanzania that targets everything from
safer childbirth to the prevention of
sexually transmitted diseases 20
• TWO STEPS FORWARD,
ONE STEP BACK
Providing education and skills-training
for Afghan women refugees was an
uphill struggle. Slowly and surely
attitudes softened, but how much
survives the return to Afghanistan
remains to he seen 22
• THE DIFFICULTY
OF EDUCATING LEYLA
In the struggle to educate Afghan
refugee women and girls, some
approaches work better than others.
And the result remains unacceptable:
most never attend school 24
• OUTSIDE, LOOKING IN
After generations of living on the
fringes, Guatemalan women began
standing up for their rights while
living as refugees in Mexico 27
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