ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the principal issues and problems affecting human rights for refugee and displaced women and children and delineates the steps international bodies and relief organizations must take to address them. It discusses priorities for introducing changes to promote the human rights of female refugee, displaced, and returnee populations. Human rights agendas and guidelines must focus on the rights of refugee, displaced, and returnee women. At both national and international levels, only crises seem to drive the work done in the fields of violence and human rights abuses against refugee and displaced populations. Rendered voiceless and powerless, refugee and displaced women are expected to defer their needs to the political and religious dictates of the male hierarchy. Unfortunately, Western and international assistance agencies often perpetuate this condition by granting food, relief assistance, and protection to male refugees.
