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Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) is a global network that brings together refugee women, scholars, practitioners, judges, policymakers, and activists to re-centre the experiences and rights of women within refugee law, policy and practice.

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Legal Training: Access to Asylum through a Gender-Sensitive Lens

Type of Resource: Capacity building | Events

Geographical Focus: Americas

Event Date: 28 October 2026

Latest Database Entries

Open University and Welsh Refugee Council, ‘″If you only look at the barriers, you can’t move”: Tackling Barriers to Education and Employment with Refugee Women in Wales’, 2026

Women’s Refugee Commission, ‘Displaced Women and Girls: A Data Ecosystem Mapping’, 2026

Schmidtke & Pérez Tümmler, ‘Left in Limbo: Emerging Challenges for Third Country Nationals Forcibly Transferred by the United States to Costa Rica’, 2026

Erdilmen, ‘Rethinking feminist alliances: avoiding feminism, but advancing gender equality within refugee communities?’, 2026

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This event was part of a series of free online seminars hosted by the WiRL network on the theme of "Refuge in a cold climate: the impact on women". These events are ideal for anyone whose work relates to refugee or asylum-claiming women or with an interest in the needs and experiences of refugee women. Find out more about the series on our events page.

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