FMR 53 - Women-led self-protection in Sudan

This issue’s feature theme, ‘Local communities: first and last providers of protection’, looks at the capacity of communities to organise themselves before, during and after displacement in ways that help protect the community. 

Supporting locally led protection strategies can significantly improve the impact of protection interventions. 

When women migrants return, they can face daunting challenges to re-integration but can also contribute to development and transforming societies. 

Entire villages in the Republic of Congo have been affected by recent flooding, leaving more than 350,000 people in need of food, shelter, clothing and other basics.People are living on top of their houses and some women are even giving birth in rafts, said Chris Mburu, UN Reside ...  Show more

The Soviet women spreading ideas on women’s equality in Afghanistan They were highly trained, focused on their mission and dedicated to their goal of promoting women’s equality in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, they found women activists who had already taken up the struggle for fe ...  Show more

Au Rwanda, 25 ans après le génocide des Tutsi qui a fait plus d'un million de morts, des femmes continuent de se mobiliser pour venir en aide aux victimes. De nombreuses associations ont vu le jour depuis 1994, dans un pays dévasté, où entre 250 et 500 000 femmes ont été victimes ...  Show more