The Save Alliance finds that none of the 191 ratifying countries yet have achieved an integrated strategy for implementation. Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Ass. MSF announced last week it would stop providing aid to the camps inside Burundi, in protest of the govt policy of forcibly regrouping 300,000 internally displaced persons into protracted concentration camps. Several authors observe that disaster relief is managed largely by men, even if women are instrumental in hands-on delivery. Several parts of the book argue that asylum practices are particularly unreceptive to women refugees who are Muslim.
Authors writing about the diasporas out of Africa explore how it promotes the emancipation of women.
Writing about Afghanistan, D Cammack observes that whereas intl agencies working with Afghan refugees a decade ago adapted a more relativist perspective on women's rights, today the same groups, working now inside Afghanistan, are less inclined to compromise.