ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to shed light on the condition of women and girls in displacement displaced within Lebanese borders during the ten years of war in Syria. The principal outcome of the study is the fact that like violence against women in the study led by Heise, the violation of the reproductive rights and the right to parenthood of Syrian refugees in Lebanon are not only connectable to individual wrongs or a cultural vacuum, but perpetrated on many different levels, between which women find spaces and measures to put forth their personal will, despite their extremely negative construction as “helpless” and “undeveloped” women who live in the MENA region. The methodological approach taken in this study is a mixed methodology based on an analysis of the existing literature on the topic, including existing qualitative and quantitative research, with reference to the existing international human rights standards that are provided by the instruments concerning asylum seeking, refugee rights, and reproductive rights.
