Seied Beniamin Hosseini & Shima Azizi

1. Seied Beniamin Hosseini & Shima Aziza
University of Mysore

2. under the 1951 Refugee Convention;
a “Refugee” is a person
 She is outside of the country of her nationality.
 She has a well founded fear.
 Because of persecution for reasons of race,
religion, nationality, membership of a
particular social group or political opinion.
 She is not protected by country of her
nationality/ origin.

3.  Recognized refugees by government of
India like; Tibetans, Chakmas and Sri
Lankan Tamils.
 Afghan, Iranian, Bhutanese and
refugees from Sudan and Somalia who
are residing in New Delhi are assisted
by the UNHCR and provided
international protection and assistance
under its mandate.

4. Article 22 of Universal Declaration of Human Right is given the
economic, social and cultural rights of each and every person and
all nations.
Article 21 of the Indian Constitution guarantees right to life and
personal liberty which include some of the economic, social and
cultural rights such as right to livelihood, right to education and
etc.
Actually these rights also is very important in the lives of refugees
particularly women refugees because their overall development is
not possible without the enjoyment of these rights.

5. Accessing women refugee to skill development training programs help them
1- to increase their positions in accessing to knowledge, resources and gaining decision-
making power and to obtain assistance on an equal footing with men.
2- to find safer job and help protecting them from gender based violence within the
family as well as in work place.
3- To rebuild self confidence and self esteem as well as it reduce feeling of isolation and
also reduce lethargy and depression.
4- To makes them self sufficient and also independent.
5- They will have the opportunities to lead productive, secure and dignified lives, and
are able to provide assistance when needed to vulnerable groups.

6. 1- education: they have limited access to a right of education and
higher education level because of;
 Economic conditions.
 Lack of sufficient facilities for education.
 Social set up which contribute girl refugees in household work.
 Lack of time and energy after doing household works.
 Most of the schools are far away from the camp and settlement.
 Early marriage and Language problems.

7. 2- employment; many of them have been excluded from
business and they lack business skills because of :
have to look after their dependents.
Lack of education which directly is dependent on
education of the women refugees. But evidence shows that
most of women refugees who are educated up to primary
level are engaged in non- technical work like domestic
work, agriculture labour and etc and an approximately
equal number are housewife.

8. UNHCR helps refugees stitch up a livelihood

9. UNHCR together with its partners and civil society and government of India provides a
range of services to support refugees and asylum-seekers in health, education, legal
counseling, vocational skills and livelihoods. But India needs to focus more on Skill
and education training programs which have very important role in providing
numerous benefits to refuge women.
Already There are conducted many development programs like;
1- DON BOSCO through offers language classes, counseling and support for livelihood
activities including vocational training specially for youth generation of refugees.
2- organizing self-defense training for refugee women by UNHCR along with its
partner with aim of empowering women by equipping them with basic martial arts
techniques.
3- All Burma a Democratic Lushai Women Organization (ABDLWO) and Central
Chin Women Organ (CCWO) through running handloom industry, swing
trainings, making traditional weaving and swing products for Burma women
refugees.

10. The Delhi Police has conducted self defense classes for refugee
women in Delhi

11. 4- CCWO through running on English speaking class as a vocational training for the
young men and women and CWO has conducted English classes and chin language.
They have training programs on human rights and women rights.
6- Burmese Women of Delhi (BWD) and the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR), through developing a cell phone based solution to track
reproductive tract infections (RTI) among women living in marginalized
communities like coastal fishermen communities, refugee women from Myanmar and
Somalia living in India, female sex workers, tribal communities, etc. Through this
project the role of ICT was clear.
7- Further providing training in stitching. Knitting and tailoring which has conducted
through Zomi Women Union which provides women with marketable skill.

12. Burma Centre Delhi (BCD) increase awareness about the atrocities & abuses going
on the Burmese refugee women in their present host country India.

13. 8-KSDF business project which with selling “MOMO” through renting a room by
furniture, cooking equipment and the raw ingredients to launch this business by Kuki
ethnic group who are presenting unemployed.
9- BOSCO through acquiring vocational skills and finding work in the informal sector.
Afghan refugees after completing training can find suitable jobs or, even start their own
businesses. And it was a new hope of life to distressed Afghan refugees.
10- The ACCESS team, Through creating an income-generating activity for refugee women
that recognize their skills, interest and capacities. As a result of this program four
Afghan women together cooked up an idea that would give them and their families a
measure of much-needed financial independence through UNHCR, the UN Refuge
Agency and ACCESS Development Services.
11- the Pakistan Hindu Relief Program (PHRRP) on October 2015, as an umbrella project
of multiple U.S based Hindu organization has donated a swing machine unit to refugee
camp. This program empowers Pakistan-Hindu women who are skilled in swing and can
work, hence this program boost clothing swing business at refugee camp.

14. four Afghan women together cooked up an idea that would give them and their families a
measure of much-needed financial independence through UNHCR, the UN Refugee
Agency and ACCESS Development Services.

15.  Inadequate resources, teachers and classes.
 Cultural constraints sometimes prevent them from accepting work or
undertaking training that takes them out of the household.
 practical problems also constraints their participation in skill training,
including a need for child day- care, and lack of time and energy after doing
household work and or jobs as a wage earner.
 Education problem, many skills require some minimum qualification. If that
is not possessed by the refugee girl and woman then she would not get
access to skill training. Therefore equal access to educational programs is an
important aspect for getting skill training.

16. 1- India needs to implement particular policies and strategies to incorporate women sufficiently
to bring about the real improvement in the lives of refugee women in India.
2- However, a lack of resources limits the projects’ scale and refugees’ wages, and many still
struggle to find jobs after completing such training, therefore, UNHCR’s livelihoods
programes must be reviewed and updated towards refugees as well as women refugees .
3- collect more comprehensive legal data in terms of economic and employment’s status of
women refugees.
4- in the absence of education and employment facilities specially for women refugees, it is
better to encourage women’s participation in skill training programes.
5 India needs to have more corporations with other state and international NGOs and
governmental agencies to create the real improvement in women’s refugee’s lives.
6- to ensure that the protection and economic independent of girls and women refugees remain
a high priority for UNHCR and all other relevant stakeholders, both in and beyond the
Dialogue location.

17. THANK YOU