CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
CONCLUSIONS ADOPTED BY THE EXECUTIVE ... - UNHCR
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The Executive Committee,<br />
1989 (Executive Committee—40 th Session)<br />
No. 60 (XL) REFUGEE WOMEN (1989)<br />
a) Expressed appreciation for the Report on Refugee Women (A/AC.96/727) and commended the Office<br />
of the High Commissioner on progress towards promoting the participation of refugee women as agents as well<br />
as beneficiaries in the planning and implementation of protection and assistance programmes;<br />
b) Noted with serious concern that the basic rights of refugee women continue to be violated in a number<br />
of situations, including through threats to their physical safety and sexual exploitation;<br />
c) Called for the reinforcement of preventive measures and for States and concerned agencies to<br />
strengthen their support of <strong>UNHCR</strong>'s protection activities relating to refugee women, inter alia, by providing<br />
resettlement places for women at risk;<br />
d) Noted <strong>UNHCR</strong>'s intention to include the subject of refugee women on the agenda of the Sub-<br />
Committee of the Whole on International Protection of the Forty-first Session of the Executive Committee, and<br />
on the Sub-Committee on Administrative and Financial matters under the item "Major Trends";<br />
e) Requested the High Commissioner to provide at the Forty First Session of the Executive Committee, a<br />
policy framework and organizational work plan for the next stages in mainstreaming of refugee women's issues<br />
within the organization with particular attention to the need for female field workers to facilitate participation of<br />
refugee women. In addition, requested the High Commissioner to provide a detailed progress report on the<br />
implementation of his Office's policies and programmes for refugee women, on both protection and assistance<br />
activities. Requested particularly that the High Commissioner prepare a revised and expanded version of the<br />
internal guidelines relating to the international protection of refugee women;<br />
f) Reaffirmed the conclusions regarding refugee women of the Thirty-ninth Session of the Executive<br />
Committee, and stressed the ongoing need for active senior management support to co-ordinate, integrate and<br />
oversee the implementation of those conclusions. In this regard, fully encouraged the participation of senior<br />
managers in the forthcoming gender impact and analysis orientation seminar;<br />
g) Noted with satisfaction the recruitment of a Senior Coordinator for Refugee Women, the production of<br />
guidelines to field offices to identify the special needs and encourage participation of refugee women, and the<br />
publication of the revised bibliography on refugee women;<br />
h) Urged the High Commissioner to develop a methodology for systematically addressing gender issues<br />
in refugee programmes and, as a basis for this, requested the High Commissioner to collect and analyze<br />
demographic, anthropological and socioeconomic information on refugee populations, in particular, data on<br />
gender roles and responsibilities and to ensure that such information is used in planning <strong>UNHCR</strong> programmes;<br />
i) Encouraged the High Commissioner in his development of training materials and courses to increase<br />
awareness of the specific needs and potential of refugee women and his initiative to involve nongovernmental<br />
organizations in this training; called upon him to expand this area in the future with a view to improved<br />
programme and project planning and in particular to further develop components to address the special<br />
protection concerns of refugee women;<br />
j) Encouraged the High Commissioner to make additional efforts to raise public awareness of the specific<br />
situation of refugee women and recommended the fortieth anniversary as an opportunity to emphasize refugee<br />
women as active participants of <strong>UNHCR</strong>'s programmes.<br />
k) Encouraged the High Commissioner to share his experience in this sector with other United Nations<br />
agencies and strongly supported him in taking a lead role in presenting the situation of refugee women at the<br />
Thirty-fourth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in 1990;<br />
l) Stressed the need for ongoing attention to the systematic collection and dissemination of<br />
documentation with regard to refugee women, both within <strong>UNHCR</strong> and in co-operation with other<br />
organizations;<br />
m) Called on operational partners to support the High Commissioner by: expanding their own activities in<br />
gender impact training, including provision for an assessment of impact on refugee women in their project<br />
agreements and self-evaluation reports, and exchanging information with other organizations having experience<br />
in women's issues.<br />
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