This summary shares findings from a global study from 2014-2015 at UNHCR country and regional offices to safeguard asylum-seekers and refugees with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.
This checklist is a tool for agencies to assess how open and safe they are when serving refugees and asylum seekers from diverse sexual and gender minorities.
This paper encourages providers and researchers to consider how sexual orientation and gender identity might affect young people's access to and experience with healthcare.
Throughout 2016, the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) partnered with local organizations in urban humanitarian settings, for the purpose of piloting gender-based violence (GBV) activities that would be at once innovative, community-driven, and responsive to evidence on local GBV risks and effective risk mitigation strategies. Four pilots were undertaken, in Delhi, India; Beirut, Lebanon; Santo Domingo,…
This resource consolidates practical guidance on HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) programming for people who are transgender.
This report explores the impacts of conflicts, displacement, and peacebuilding on sexual minorities. Featured research was conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Lebanon, and Nepal.
Available in 14 languages, Zanzu is an accessible website designed to facilitate multicultural conversations about the body and sexuality. Spoken text, drawings, and pictograms are featured.
Hesperian’s trusted reproductive health information, which communities have relied on for years, is now even more accessible as mobile apps. After downloading, these practical, multilingual apps operate entirely offline, without a data plan. Use them to make decisions that ensure healthier outcomes for yourself, your loved ones, and your community.
These guiding principles are meant to serve as a tool for all stakeholders in designing, implementing, and monitoring international, national, and local development activities related to LGBTI people, with a vision to achieving the United Nations Agenda 2030 and other development priorities.
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This article argues that unsafe abortion remains a threat to women worldwide, contributes to maternal deaths, and urgently requires improved access to safe, comprehensive abortion care.
Following the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa, humanitarian actors and academics recognized the gendered impacts of the disease and the response on women and girls, as well as the long-term recovery implications.
This e-learning course (below) cover the management of family planning (FP) and postabortion care (PAF) commodities at the health facility (HF).