CARE International ‘A call to action on gender and humanitarian reform - From the Call to Action on Violence Against Women and Girls in Emergencies to the World Humanitarian Summit’

This article addresses violence against women and girls in emergencies and was used as a source for synthesised recommendations used in the Briefing Papers for the Global Forum on Improving Humanitarian Action, taking place in New York on 4/5 June 2015.

The Briefing Papers are intended to provide a general background to the key obstacles that inhibit good, effective humanitarian action, and the recommendations that have been put forward around the WHS process to address these obstacles.