Refugee women desperate to leave the country for more secure locations often are exposed to risky behaviour that further may revictimize them where exploitative practices exist such as trafficking and sexual violence at the hands of immigration officials and armed groups.41 Reports of asylum registration related opportunistic corruption and ‘sexploitation’ are common as women seek to obtain refugee status in order to access protection and humanitarian assistance.42 Female refugees face threats of random arrests or deportation, increasing their vulnerability. Trafficking in refugee women is also an ever present threat for desperate women and girls looking for a way out. Women are more likely to be asked to pay for services in kind leading to risky sexual behaviour. The 2002 Report of UNHCR titled “Sexual Violence and Exploitation: The Experience of Refugee Children in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone” 43 exposed rampart violations against women and girls. Evidence was unearthed of extensive sexual violence and exploitation of children (girls under 18) committed by community leaders, teachers, medical workers, humanitarian workers. More recent revelations of peacekeeping operations and humanitarian workers sexual exploitation and abuse of refugee women has prompted debate reflected in the humanitarian #Aidtoo discourses.44 On arrival in countries that grant them asylum, women and girls find new risks in humanitarian camps or host communities. community Acts based of banditry targeted at refugees result in sexual violence against women 41 UN University ‘Protecting Female Refugees against Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Camps’. 2015Avaialbe at https://unu.edu/publications/articles/protecting-female-refugees-against-sexual-and-genderbased-violence-in-camps.html 42 Statement of Solidarity with Refugee Women and Girls, June 2017. Available at www.womennetwork.org 43 UNHCR ‘Extensive abuse of West African refugee children reported’ Available at https://www.unhcr.org/news/press/2002/2/3c7bf8094/extensive-abuse-west-african-refugee-childrenreported.html26 February 2002 44 The New Humanitarian ‘#Aidtoo: After Oxfam, what to watch’ Available at https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2019/06/11/aid-sector-abuse-scandal-aidtoo-after-oxfam-whatwatch 24

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