Desperate Lives: Urban Refugee Women in Malaysia and Egypt

Author(s)
Buscher, D. and Heller, L.
Publication language
English
Pages
2pp
Date published
01 Jan 2008
Type
Factsheets and summaries
Keywords
Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Gender, Forced displacement and migration, Urban
Countries
Egypt, Malaysia

While the international community is still working out how
to identify and best serve them, refugees and IDPs in urban
settings are making their own way – often placing themselves
at considerable risk.