This section includes links to resources and publications by, or collated by, WiRL
Evidence for Public Accounts Committee
In February 2025, WiRL submitted evidence to the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee to inform the its inquiry on VAWG.
WiRL’s ‘Submission to the UK Public Accounts Committee to inform its inquiry: Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)‘ draws together recent evidence and knowledge from WiRL members who include women with lived experience of claiming asylum in the UK, and legal practitioners, advocates and researchers who work in this area and support them.
Guidance for Cartagena +40 process
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.
Women in Refugee Law (WiRL), ‘Submission to inform Chile Declaration and Action Plan in the context of the Cartagena +40 multi-stakeholder pledge’, 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.
WiRL’s Annual Report
In 2024 WiRL created its first annual report.
‘WiRL Progress Report 2021-2024‘ acknowledges its funders and supporters and showcases some of the network’s activities and achievements since its inception in May 2021.
Evidence for Special Rapporteur inquiry
In February 2024, WiRL made a submission to Reem Alsalam, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, in advance of her visit to the UK. from 12-21 February.
Women in Refugee Law (WiRL), ‘Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls to inform her visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’, draws together recent evidence and knowledge from WiRL’s UK members with lived experience of claiming asylum, and legal practitioners, advocates and researchers. It prioritises the most important issues identified by our members, rather than addressing every possible topic.
Symposium on ‘Women in International Law’
In March 2023 WiRL authored Völkerrechtsblog’s second annual ‘Women in International Law’ symposium.
Women in International Law Volume 2, focuses on women in international refugee law and hosts a series of blogposts, authored by members of the WiRL network, on the contemporary struggles of women and girls seeking asylum and on current developments in this context.
Special issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly
In the Women in Refugee Law special issue of Refugee Survey Quarterly, September 2022, WiRL members pursued the network’s objectives of recentring the study of refugee women by reviewing the state of protection in domestic jurisdictions and internationally, identifying setbacks to adequate protection for women at risk of persecution, and proposing inclusive ways forward.
Reflecting WiRL’s global and interdisciplinary approach, the Special Issue diverged from the traditional academic journal structure by including ‘field reflections’ from activists and advocates with applied experience of improving refugee women’s protection.
