The last decade has seen the highest-ever number of people displaced by conflict and violence globally. There are an estimated 51 million people displaced within their own borders. And the number of refugees has doubled to 20 million since 2011.
Displacement creates vulnerabilities for both adults and young people. But adolescent girls, in particular, are at increased risk due to their age and gender.
With the onset of COVID-19, adolescent girls in conflict zones are 90% more likely to be out of school. And 70% of females in humanitarian settings are more likely to experience gender-based violence.
Globally, lockdowns and shelter-in-place policies are exacerbating domestic violence, with 15 million new cases estimated for every three months of lockdown.
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Nolan Publishes Article on Guatemalan Child Migration
On November 13, 2020, Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published an article with The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) on the history of Guatemalan child refugees and the crimes now underway in the United States migration system. This is the third article in series on child migration from the Infancias y Migración Working Group, an international interdisciplinary working group on child migration in the Americas–with participation from scholars in the U.S. and Latin America.
In the article, titled “Guatemalan Child Refugees, Then and Now,” Nolan discusses the atrocities carried out during the Guatemalan civil war, the existential threat the war was for the country’s children, and the global response to this refugee crisis. Nolan details the policies toward refugees in of both Mexico and the U.S., the lat