Washington, D.C. – Tomorrow, with the expiration of the national COVID-19 public health emergency, the Title 42 Order will no longer be in effect. For more than three years, Title 42 was used to...
In April 2023, just ahead of the end of the Title 42 expulsions policy on May 11, 2023, the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) Migrant Rights and Justice program visited Arizona, southeast California,...
For years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) has supported local governments and community organizations welcoming new arrivals. FEMA and...
From 2017-2021, the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) partnered with the government of Borno State, Nigeria, and other local partners to design and implement an integrated package of community and...
By Rahel Beigel, UN representative and senior advocacy officer at the Women's Refugee Commission In March, the United Nations (UN) Security Council unanimously voted to adopt Security Council...
On December 16, 2021, President Biden fulfilled one of his campaign promises: the end of immigration detention for families. Since then, the Department of Homeland Security transitioned two family...
On February 6, 2023, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and multiple severe aftershocks hit Türkiye (Turkey) and northwest Syria, creating a complex humanitarian emergency. The death toll across the region...
Executive Summary Child marriage, which is rooted in deeply entrenched gender inequality, afects as many as one in fve girls globally. Evidence suggests that child marriage tends to increase during...
Building service capacity in crisis settings to support diverse adolescent boys and male youth survivors of sexual violence This phase of the Women’s Refugee Commission’s (WRC's) sexual violence...
Background Over the past few weeks, members of the C4PTF for the Ukraine Response have started mapping the different protection risks that refugees and IDPs are facing in Ukraine and while...