Refugee women are (not) welcome. Critical analysis and possible solutions to gender-based human rights violation in refugee camps with a case study on the impact of the EU-Turkey agreement on women and girls’ rights

Abstract

The aim of this research is to study the different violations of women’s and girls’ human rights in critical migration contests (and in particular in refugee camps), to evaluate the existing legal instrument to safaguard them, and to analyze possible new solutions to this problem. A specific study-case will be the 2016 agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Turkey, and its impact on women and girls rights, namely the conditions of women and girls in Island Detention Centers and Open Sites in Greece will be analyzed. Those camps are often the result of forced reconditioning reception centers in detention centers, where girls and women are exposed to sever violation of their rights to safety, health and equal treatment. In order to analyze this issue, this research will be structured in three parts/chapters. A first part will focus on the evolution of women’s rights protection mechanism in migration context in the framework of international law. The second part will focus on the case study. The final part will deal with the legal instruments that are applicable to the protection of women and girls rights in refugee camps. Existing ones includes the UN initiatives, the role of NGOs, and the policies of gender sensitive planning. New possible solutions are: possible adjudication of refugee’s rights under International Court; possible adaptation of the Impact Assessment approach; possible adaptation of the Hathaway model on the evaluation of Human Rights treaties. The approach used will be the analysis of the content of international treaties, conventions, and actions, and their evolution from 1945 to nowadays as well as the study of the literature on the topic.