UNHCR publishes Guide on Working with Men and Boy Survivors of Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Forced Displacement

Date: 
Friday, October 4, 2013

UNHCR published a Guide on Working with Men and Boy Survivors of Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Forced Displacement. The Guide emphasizes that sexual violence and rape can be used as a weapon of war against men as well as women, that it is inflicted on men as a means of disempowerment, dominance and undermining concepts of masculinity, discussed triggers for survival sex. The Guide further provides with a number of indicators for identification of survivors. In addition to the above, the Guide seeks to understand the needs of men and boy survivors, makes suggestions on building trust during interviews and urges all interested parties to examine and challenge their own assumptions and stereotypes about gender, including male (in)vulnerability to sexual and gender based violence and the harm it causes.

For a relevant blog post please visit: Free Movement Blog: UNHCR guidelines on survivors of male rape and sexual violence


This item was reproduced with the permission of ECRE from the weekly ELENA legal update supported by the Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Funding Programme and distributed by email. The purpose of these updates is to inform asylum lawyers and legal organizations supporting asylum seekers and refugees of recent developments in the field of asylum law. Please note that the information provided is taken from publicly available information on the internet. Every reasonable effort is made to make the content accurate and up to date at the time each item is published but no responsibility for its accuracy and correctness, or for any consequences of relying on it, is assumed by ECRE, the IRC or its partners.

                                                     

 

Keywords: 
Gender Based Persecution
Tags: 
UNHCR
Spain