Magister Legum - LLM / Refugee women experience the full spectrum of Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV)
throughout the refugee experience. SGBV is a global crisis that refugee women are subjected
to daily. Refugee women face SGBV in their countries of origin, during the journey, in transit,
and upon arrival within their country of asylum. The SGBV that refugee women experience is
often not considered a priority and the physical consequences of SGBV such as sexually
transmitted diseases, infertility, unwanted pregnancy, injury and vulnerability to disease is
often overlooked or ignored. Although there are international laws and domestic laws which
are drafted to prevent and protect refugee women against SGBV, refugee women are in reality
not effectively protected and refugee women have remained extremely vulnerable to SGBV.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/7936 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Newton, Kerwin Mel |
| Contributors | Chinnian, Karin |
| Publisher | University of Western Cape |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | University of Western Cape |
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