A recently published report on the state of affairs for refugee and asylum-seeking women residing in Israel sheds a painful light on the conditions these women live in and the corners they are pushed ...

Many women have been forced to leave their home countries and seek better shelter and safety in the United States. While asylum applications have decreased since 2017 — mainly because of U.S. policy ...

The UN refugee agency has welcomed a new set of international guidelines, adopted today by the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, calling for countries to ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female asylum seekers, often survivors of sexual violence, are denied dignity and privacy by being routinely watched and searched by male staff in Britain's ...

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For the past few years, Daisy McCoy has opened up her spare bedroom in Lyndon to asylum seekers from all over the world. They’ve come from Togo, Honduras, Uganda, Cuba and Yemen to the Northeast ...

Protecting the rights of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls is a strategic objective for the Council of Europe’s work to promote gender equality and women’s rights under the Gender ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Friday that gender and nationality alone were sufficient for a country to grant asylum to women from Afghanistan, where the ruling ...

The longest-held transgender woman in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody was released Tuesday. According to the TransLatin@ Coalition, Kelly Gonzalez Aguilar has been released from Aurora ...