Guinea-Case Sudy of Gender Sexual Violence in Guinea’s Refugee Camps-Advocacy for Justice & Accountability
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: October 30, 2006
Volume 9 Contents
- Articles – Abstract
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Refugee Responses, State-like Behavior, and Accountability for
Human Rights Violations: A Case Study of Sexual Violence in Guinea’s Refugee
Camps by Alice Farmer
This Article advocates for better access
to justice and a more comprehensive accountability system in refugee camps.
Refugee women are frequently subject to sexual violence and sexual
exploitation in the country of refuge, and find themselves without ways of
redressing these fundamental rights violations. This Article uses the sexual
violence and sexual exploitation that was documented in refugee camps in
Guinea in 2002 as an illustrative case study of the protection problems faced
by refugee women in many parts of the world. The author argues that the host
government, UNHCR, and various non-governmental organizations operated
together to fulfill state-like functions in long-term refugee camps, but their
efforts left accountability, access to justice, and enforcement of women’s
human rights laws sorely lacking. The movement toward rights based refuge –
embraced in varying forms by the aid providers in Guinea – provides a
theoretical and practical framework for greater rights recognition, but has
not yet delivered a complete response to the specific human rights violations
faced by refugee women. If rights-based refuge is to succeed in refugee
settings like Guinea, aid providers must make the protection of women’s human
rights a central concern by instituting a robust, multi-layered system of
accountability to which all refugee women have access.
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