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The New Humanitarian<span style="color:#1F497D"> -</span> 27 November 2019 - <a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/interview/2019/11/27/GBV-women-girls-funding-conflict-IRC" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">
<span style="color:blue">https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/interview/2019/11/27/GBV-women-girls-funding-conflict-IRC</span></a></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt; color:black">Why does so little aid money go to preventing violence against women and girls?</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#282828">Some 14 million refugees and displaced women and girls were subjected to sexual violence in 2019, according to this report below by the International Rescue Committee.
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#282828">Still, gender-based violence is often seen as a “second-tier priority” during a humanitarian response, and the lack of funding to prevent it bolsters that reality.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#282828">Of the $41.5 billion spent on humanitarian responses between 2016 and 2018, just $51.7 million – less than 0.2 percent – was spent on GBV prevention for women and girls.</span></p>
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IRC – International Rescue Committee</p>
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<b>Direct Link to Full 52-Page 2019 Report:</b></p>
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<a href="https://www.rescue-uk.org/sites/default/files/document/2094/ircgbvpolicyreportint2.pdf" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">https://www.rescue-uk.org/sites/default/files/document/2094/ircgbvpolicyreportint2.pdf</a></p>
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