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Project

De Beys Award for the activities in the field "Prevention of and Response to Sexual and Gender-based Violence against Women"
Code
365H2308
Duration
06 August 2008 → 31 December 2013
Funding
Funding by bilateral agreement (private and foundations)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Economic development, innovation, technological change and growth
    • Social work
    • Other sociology
    • Other sociology
    • Other anthropology
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Public health care
    • Public health sciences
    • Public health services
Keywords
women's rights asylum seekers refugees human rights sexual and gender-based violence humanitarian aid
 
Project description
 

ICRH won the De Beys award for its medical research with a social impact in crisis situations in recognition of its activities in the field of sexual and gender-based violence. These activities include rsearch, training, services and wareness raising in the following areas: 1) aid to survivors of sexual violence, 2) female genital mutilation, 3) sexual and gender-based violence in conflict and post-conflict settings, and 4) sexual violence against refugees, asylum seekers and people without legal residence in the European Union and the Neighborhoud countries.