Guest blog: Reducing the Trauma of Gender Based Violence
Guest blog: Mary Omble Wuya is a gender and development expert, social scientist and researcher with over ten years experience. She combines trainings and experience to deliver effectively and efficiently in areas of development and social science research. Author of Reducing the Truama of Gender Based Violence: Gender Based Violence The issue of displaced persons in recent times has been a global problem especially in third world countries. The displacement across the globe is due to communal violence, economic dislocations natural disaster, internal armed conflicts, land/border conflicts, floods and drought, ethno religious conflicts and terrorist attacks. Global experiences have shown that most displaced persons are vulnerable to threats to security and physical integrity, loss of contact with children and family members, inadequate and insecure shelter, discrimination in aids distribution, psycho-social stress, sexual and gender-based violence. ...