Issues related to the protection of refugee women have not suffered from lack of reflection. Rather, they have suffered from a lack of targeted and concrete action. Protection difficulties, for women not least, will most likely re-occur. Their consequences can though be anticipated and mitigated and their re-occurrence minimized. The first step is to listen to the refugee women themselves, to analyse with them the problems, and to identify with them a set of general recommendations and commitments. The next step will be to turn the recommendations into concrete steps for action. This conference could make, here, quite a contribution, as long as there is clear focus on identification of best practices and the generation of concrete recommendations.

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gender issue refugee immigrant population