About the Women's Commission
for Refugee Women and Children
Our Vision
A world in which refugee, internally displaced, returnee and asylum seeking women and children:
- live in safety and dignity;
- have access to the services and resources they need to improve their health, well-being and self-sufficiency;
- participate in the decisions that affect their lives, both during displacement and when displacement ends; and
- are advocates and activists themselves, providing continuous monitoring of the policies and practices that affect them.
Our Mission
The Women's Commission's mission is to improve the lives and defend the rights of refugee women and children, including the internally displaced, returnees and asylum seekers.
We work in consultation with refugee women and children to ensure that their voices are heard. We seek solutions to seemingly intractable problems by:
- Assessing and monitoring the situation of refugee women and children through research, field visits and consultation;
- Identifying and documenting the widely overlooked problems and issues that affect refugee women and children;
- Developing and promoting policies and practices that
will lead to real on-the-ground change by advocating to policy makers, key organizations, donors and the public to ensure their implementation.
Remembering Mary Diaz
Our work contributes to long-term solutions, thereby lessening the likelihood of continuing cycles of conflict and displacement.
View the Women's Commission's key achievements in 2007.
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Voices of Courage Awards Luncheon
Each year the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children holds a luncheon
to honor individual refugee women and young people who are working on behalf
of other refugees. 
Find out about our 2008 Voices of Courage
Awards luncheon.
Read about previous luncheons and honorees: