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Explore the latest humanitarian policy updates, on-the-ground research, and oral history dispatches documenting the lived realities of displaced single mothers and female-headed households globally.

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What Are Female-Headed Households? Understanding the Lives of Displaced Single Mothers

What Are Female-Headed Households? Understanding the Lives of Displaced Single Mothers

What Are Female-Headed Households? Understanding the Lives of Displaced Single MothersIan Harold Daluyen
Published on: 24/08/2026

What does it mean to lead a family through displacement? Learn what female-headed households are, the challenges displaced single mothers face, and why their experiences matter.

Explainers
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The Convention Turns 75. Her Name Is Still Not in It.

The Convention Turns 75. Her Name Is Still Not in It.

Kristi Dawn Riggs
Published on: 13/08/2026

Today, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, the same building where delegates signed the 1951 Refugee Convention three-quarters of a century ago, there will be a commemorative event.

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