Feb. 10: Join us for a panel discussion on how global funding cuts have harmed women & girls in humanitarian crises, drawing on new research by UN Women, @ippf.bsky.social, & @wrcommission.bsky.social & direct testimonials from local women leaders: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Global Gag Rule Expansion Will Endanger the Lives of Women and Girls (WRC statement): www.womensrefugeecommission.org/press-releas...

New rsesearch from @wrcommission.bsky.social shows that immigrant family separation is escalating under federal enforcement—advocates call it unprecedented. Current protections ignored. #HumanRights #ImmigrantRights #FamilyUnity #PolicyWatch

A majority of deported parents are not being allowed to take their children with them or arrange child care, even for kids as young as two months old tinyurl.com/v8t2pmvz @publicnewsservice.bsky.social @wrcommission.bsky.social

Read our new report, "A Year of Harms" in full at www.womensrefugeecommission.org/research-res....

Today, WRC issued the following statement in response to reports that a 21-year-old woman who is eight months pregnant, and reportedly under medical distress, will be deported to Columbia: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/press-releas...

One year after the US abruptly cut billions of dollars in foreign aid, WRC's new report offers the first comprehensive evidence review of the devastating consequences for women and girls across humanitarian crises. Read it here: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/.../year-of-...

WRC Statement: DHS's new policy further restricting access to ICE detention facilities for Members of Congress dramatically reduces one of the last meaningful avenues for oversight over these facilities. www.womensrefugeecommission.org/press-releas...

WRC's research has found that parents being deported from the US are often not being allowed to take their children with them or arrange child care, even when the children are as young as two months old. Story in publicnewsservice.bsky.social: app.publicnewsservice.org/story/parent...

The new Presidential Memoranda withdrawing the United States from 66 international organizations will cause direct harm to women and girls around the world and undermine efforts to prevent conflict and promote global stability. WRC press release: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/press-releas...

We at Women’s Refugee Commission are so grateful to begin 2026 with your support and partnership as we advocate for the rights, needs, and protection of people displaced by conflict and crisis. Happy new year!

Can you help fund our work to improve the lives and protect the rights of displaced women and children before the year ends? Thanks to the support of our dedicated community, we’re more than 60% towards our end-of-year appeal goal of $500K. womensrefugeecommission.org/donate

"Home has never felt so close, yet so unsafe for me. I stand with the women in DRC today & always." -- Oricia Ngenyibungi, who co-authored WRC’s report on the impact of conflict & funding cuts on women, girls & women-led organizations in Eastern DRC: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/blog/wrc-res...

“We were all crying on the plane, all of us, thinking about our children.” --38 year-old mother separated by deportation from her 5 year-old child. We are in a new family separation crisis. Download WRC & PHR's three-page briefing to learn more: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/research-res...

Today is #InternationalMigrantsDay. During a time of increasing global backlash against immigration, when the safety and dignity of so many are under attack, WRC is resolute: We stand with refugee and migrant women and children: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/blog/this-in...

#GRF Review: the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights (housed in WRC) called on states to eliminate gender discrimination in nationality laws. Global goals on gender equality, children’s rts, sustainable development & ending statelessness can't be achieved w/o gender equal nationality laws.

We are happy to share that Sen. Shaheen & colleagues have introduced the Support UNFPA Funding Act, which WRC has strongly endorsed, in the Senate. UNFPA's work reduces maternal mortality, provides access to reproductive healthcare & combats violence against women & girls. Funding must be restored.

Reminder! Tomorrow, Dec 16, join us online for "Solutions to Statelessness," co-hosted by the Global Campaign for Equal National Rights (housed in WRC). Speakers include activists impacted by #statelessness & discriminatory nationality laws, gov't & UN representatives. Register: bit.ly/444GsBv #GRF

This powerful article shares some of what WRC and Physicians for Human Rights learned during a joint investigative trip to Honduras, where they spoke with women who were detained and deported from the US while pregnant, postpartum, and/or nursing.

Univision reports on WRC and Physicians for Human Rights' research trip to Honduras, where the investigative team spoke with women who had been deported from the US, as well as with healthcare providers, government officials, and social workers [en español]: www.univision.com/noticias/inm...

As the #16DaysOfActivism Against Gender-Based Violence concludes, it's an apt moment to release our report on how the resurgence of violence in the #DRC, coupled with US funding cuts, has impacted women, girls, & women-led orgs in the Kivu regions: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/research-res...

WRC has signed a collective NGO statement on the 2026 Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO). It is signed by 89 NGOs and NGO networks, alliances, and fora, including humanitarian organizations operating in countries covered by the GHO: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/research-res...

Join us online Dec 16 for an event co-hosted by the Global Campaign for Equal National Rights (housed in WRC), "Solutions to Statelessness." Speakers include leading activists impacted by #statelessness & discriminatory nationality laws, gov't & UN representatives. Register: bit.ly/444GsBv #GRF

In case you missed it: WRC's Melanie Nezer, just back from a joint Women's Refugee Commission-Physicians for Human Rights trip to #Honduras to meet with people deported from the US as well as providers offering them services, shared what she learned: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/blog/they-wo...

Sweeping immigration arrests & rapid deportations are having a devastating impact on women & families. WRC has been investigating & sharing what we have learned from detained pregnant women & parents separated from kids. Go to www.womensrefugeecommission.org/wrc-news/ for the latest media coverage.

:تقريرنا عن غزة متاح الآن باللغة العربية www.womensrefugeecommission.org/research-res... [Our Gaza report is now available in Arabic.]

Today is #GivingTuesday. Please consider making a gift to the Women's Refugee Commission to sustain our work advocating for the rights, needs, and protection of refugee and immigrant women and girls. Thank you for your generous support today and every day! www.womensrefugeecommission.org/donate/

Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday, the most generous day of the year. Please consider a gift to WRC. Your generosity will help us to advocate for the rights, needs, and protection of refugee and immigrant women and girls, who need our support now more than ever: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/donate/

To everyone celebrating #Thanksgiving today, all of us at WRC send best wishes for a holiday full of peace and light.

Across the US this week, as some families come together for the holidays, others are being torn apart. A heartbreaking but necessary read: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/blog/they-wo...

We invite all young people—young women and men, adolescent girls and boys—to contribute to a Dec. 9 conversation on how to improve access to justice for adolescent girls and young women. Register now, or if you can't join us, submit your ideas via a survey instead, by Dec. 5.

Today, as the #16Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence kicks off, we stand with fellow members of the GBV AoR in reaffirming "our shared commitment to a humanitarian & development system that upholds life, dignity & rights." Joint statement: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/research-res...

This fall has been particularly busy for WRC. We want to share a few highlights of our recent work in our core focus areas: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/blog/listeni...

#ICE is detaining & deporting pregnant women & separating women from their babies. WRC’s Melanie Nezer is in Honduras with Physicians for Human Rights to meet with recently deported women & get their firsthand accounts. Here’s Melanie’s first dispatch about what she’s seeing & hearing on the ground.

To support & uplift local experience & expertise, WRC partners with local researchers to produce our reports. In a new series, we give them the floor to share their reflections. First up is Diana Flórez, who researched & wrote our #Honduras report: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/blog/wrc-res...

A message from Executive Director, Sarah Costa, and Board Co-Chairs, Alex Arriaga and Ivonne Dersch: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/blog/announc...

For the first time since 2017, the US Govt missed its legal reporting deadline under the Women, Peace, and Security Act. Congress must act to ensure oversight and accountability for the implementation of #WPS. Read our joint civil society statement: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/research-res...

In #Gaza, #Sudan, and around the world, the Women, Peace, and Security agenda #WPS is on fragile ground. New WRC blog post: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/blog/on-frag...

Advocates say #ICE is detaining pregnant women, violating federal policy. Melanie Nezer of @wrcommission.bsky.social: Women are miscarrying in detention and returning malnourished. The group launched the Detention Pregnancy Tracker to collect real-time reports, push for transparency. #HumanRights

The scenes from #ElFasher are horrifying. For decades, women in #Sudan have raised the alarm about the violence they have experienced at the hands of paramilitary groups, only to be ignored. Now, women and girls are bearing the brunt of extreme violence and a collapse of protection mechanisms.

WRC’s VP of Advocacy and External Relations, Melanie Nezer, shares our statement in response to today’s announcement of the Presidential determination on refugee admissions for Fiscal Year 2026. #refugees

Melanie Nezer de la Comisión de Mujeres Refugiadas [c]ondena que las embarazadas estén viviendo en estas condiciones ... donde sus casos no están siendo documentados y donde no tienen la atención médica que requieren: "Eso no debería estar pasando en nuestro país". www.univision.com/noticias/inm...

Adolescent girls are the experts on their own lives. @wrcommission.bsky.social is transforming how the humanitarian sector responds to the unique and diverse priorities of adolescent girls. Explore more: www.imhereforher.org #imhere #imhereforher

This reporting is so important. A must-read from @shefali.bsky.social. Here's a link to the @wrcommission.bsky.social Detention Pregnancy Tracker that's described in the artice. detentionpregnancytracker.com

60% of #refugees now live in cities, not camps, but our #humanitarianaid systems haven't caught up. Our new policy brief w/ @refugeesinternational.org @refugeesri.bsky.social & @iied.bsky.social calls for an "urban first" approach to refugee response: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/research-res...

Pregnant and nursing women are being detained by ICE despite the known risks and in violation of DHS' own guidance. As WRC’s US Director of Migrant Rights and Justice, Zain Lakhani, told @19thnews.org: “We are seeing just this shocking number of detained postpartum and pregnant women.”

Every year on #WorldFoodDay, the int'l community reaffirms its commitment to achieving global food security & sustainability. WRC looks at this goal through the lens of our mission, to protect & empower women & children displaced by conflict & crisis: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/blog/what-wo...

Tomorrow is Intl #DayoftheGirl, a fitting moment to launch www.imhereforher.org -- a hub for WRC’s I’m Here Approach, which recognizes adolescent girls as experts in their own lives & empowers them to co-design solutions to the unique risks they face. #ImHereForHer

It’s #DAFDay2025, a nationwide celebration of generosity through Donor-Advised Funds. Make a DAF gift to WRC today and help us to improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children, and youth displaced by conflict and crisis: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/donate/donor... #givingtogether

The Women, Peace, and Security agenda was built on the principle that no peace is possible without the full, equal, meaningful, and safe participation and leadership of women. 25 years on, urgent action is needed to fulfill the #WPS agenda's promise: www.womensrefugeecommission.org/blog/25-year...