Annotation:
The purpose of the guidelines is to identify some of the specific protection issues facing refugee women. The document focuses on the variety of mechanisms needed to achieve protection of refugee women, including the international legal framework. The guidelines address both the physical security problems and legal protection problems faced by refugee women. Under legal issues, there is a discussion of the lack of inclusion of gender within the 1951 Refugee Convention and a recommendation that governments recognize gender-related persecution as falling within the particular social group category. Also contained in the guidelines are many practical recommendations for increasing the protection of refugee women. [Descriptors: Migration - Refugees and Immigration, International]