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Refugee women face gender-specific challenges in navigating daily life at every stage of their migration experience. [21] Common challenges for all refugee women, regardless of other demographic data, are access to healthcare and physical abuse and instances of discrimination, sexual violence, and human trafficking are the most common ones. [11]
The IOM does conduct surveys that ask about issues of sexual identity or gender identification to understand what challenges such migrants face. Noticias Telemundo contacted Mexico's National ...
The risk of sexual assault and rape is so high for migrant women that smugglers, or coyotes, require them to get contraceptive injections before leaving their home country. [94] It is hard for researchers to get statistics on violence against migrant women because these women are unable to report their assault cases out of fear of being deported.
Although women in Mexico are making great advances, they are faced with the traditional expectation of being the head of the household. Researcher Margarita Valdés noted that while there are few inequities imposed by law or policy in Mexico, gender inequalities perpetuated by social structures and Mexican cultural expectations limit the ...
Mexico is known as the second-most-dangerous country in the world for transgender women." Ramos, who works with an immigration legal aid organization called Al Otro Lado says it is hard to find ...
Sheinbaum, 62, takes power at a turbulent time globally and in Mexico, where she'll face the perennial issues of violence and migration as well as the enormous expectations left by her highly ...
Refugee women in Chad. Refugee women face gender-specific challenges in navigating daily life at every stage of their migration experience. [1] Common challenges for all refugee women, regardless of other demographic data, are access to healthcare and physical abuse and instances of discrimination, sexual violence, and human trafficking are the most common ones. [2]
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