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Women in Refugee Law (WiRL), ‘Submission to inform Chile Declaration and Action Plan in the context of the Cartagena +40 multi-stakeholder pledge’, September 2024
In September 2024, WiRL made a submission regarding the particular challenges that women refugees face in the Latin America and Caribbean region to inform the Cartagena +40 process and next ten-year action plan.
WiRL’s submission identified two key areas for States to consider in their discussions about the Chile
Declaration and Action Plan: gender-sensitivity in the asylum application process and recognising refugees women’s wider support needs. This will contribute to strengthening the fairness, efficiency and integrity of national asylum systems, thereby subsequently promoting social inclusion and integration, and enhancing the lives and livelihoods of displaced women.
Background information
In 2024 the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees celebrates its 40th anniversary. As it has become a tradition, this will be an opportunity to debate the current challenges and strategic priority areas for intervention on protection and solutions for refugees, other forcibly displaced and stateless persons in Latin America and the Caribbean. This milestone marks a new step in the periodic process of review, adaptation and update of what has become the Cartagena Process, which takes place every 10 years; this time known as Cartagena+40. As in the past, the adoption of a new roadmap to strengthen protection and solutions is expected to take place at the end of this consultative process. https://globalcompactrefugees.org/multistakeholder-pledge-cartagena40-chile-declaration-and-plan-action
