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A packed chapter. Eileen becomes the Director of the Centre for Refugee Research, ANCORW joins us at UNSW, and we hosted a National Conference to review Bei**g plus Five, and an International Conference on Refugee policy. Women from Indigenous communities joined us for a ‘Court on Indigenous and Refugee Women’s Rights’. Working with regional partners in preparation for the World Conference on Racism (WCAR), we are introduced to the concept of Intersectionality and the power of identity labels by our Sri Lankan colleagues. In Australia, the WaR Program continued to fail to achieve its goal. As more desperate asylum seekers attempted to reach Australia in small boats, refugees were demonised by the Government with the infamous ‘Tampa’ incident and the ‘Children overboard’ affair. UNHCR held events to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention and a group of refugee women travelled to Geneva for a very successful dialogue. We visited camps on the Thai–Burma border and in Kenya, discovering even more horror. Child abuse by humanitarian workers and peacekeepers in East Africa was brought to light. We were awarded major funding to research the failure of the WaR Program in Thailand and Kenya.
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Pittaway, E., Bartolomei, L.A. (2023). Intersectionality, Identity and Refugee Women-2001–2002: ‘I Will Give You a Prize If You Can Find a Woman in This Camp Who Has Not Been Raped’. In: Only Rape! Human Rights and Gender Equality for Refugee Women . Sustainable Development Goals Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0916-0_7
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