Global Health & Gender Policy Brief - Women and Girls in Wartime OVERVIEW

and women’s participation in the paid economy, and has led to the displacement of more than 40 Trafficking for the purpose of forced marriage million women and children. [...] And the 2000 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, The UN estimates that 4.2 million women and Peace, and Security (WPS) helped raise awareness girls are at risk for GBV in Sudan, where sexual of women’s role in peacebuilding, and address the violence is significantly underreported due to changing battlefields of war to include the direct shame, stigma, and fear of reprisal. [...] Involving women in peace required to address the immediate sexual and negotiations also increases the likelihood that the reproductive health (SRH) needs of women and specific needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls at the onset of conflict or a humanitarian children in conflict zones, such as gender-based crisis. [...] CURRENT US FOREIGN POLICY • In 2022, the US Department of State ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF and USAID launched Safe from the Start ReVisioned, a more ambitious framework to WOMEN AND GIRLS IN CONFLICT promote women’s leadership, and prioritize Safe from the Start ReVisioned Initiative GBV prevention and survivor-centered programming in every humanitarian response. [...] Governments and humanitarian organizations must implement measures to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, including the creation of safe spaces, the availability and access to psychosocial support, and ensuring access to medical care and legal support for survivors of violence.