The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) works to improve the lives and defend the rights of refugee and internally displaced women, children, and young people. As a research organization that also advocates and amplifies solutions, WRC is dedicated to securing systemic changes in policy and practice that ensure uprooted women, children, and young people can fully exercise their rights to protection, services, and self-sufficiency.
Thirty-six years ago, WRC’s founders traveled to refugee camps and found that the humanitarian systems designed to serve the women living there were not listening to them or meeting their basic needs. Since then, WRC has fought for women refugees, their families, and the most vulnerable among displaced populations. We have driven policy change at the UN, within the US government, and beyond, improving responses to gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health needs.
WRC continues to innovate to meet women’s needs, often filling gaps in the humanitarian sector by incubating new ideas, frameworks, and networks.



We host the Global Refugee Youth Network and support its work with youth-led organizations worldwide as it moves toward independence. WRC also hosts and serves as the Secretariat of the General Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights, which, since its founding, has contributed to 18 nationality law reforms that either partially or comprehensively address gender discrimination, advancing the nationality rights of over 175 million women and girls. In these capacities, we are also a grantor to frontline organizations that are leading change in humanitarian contexts.
At a time when funding for research is eroding, we continue our legacy of generating evidence that mobilizes more effective humanitarian responses for women. With partners, WRC launched the Self-Reliance Index, which has been used by 88 partners in 39 countries. In 2027, we will launch our inaugural flagship report, The State of Displacement of Women and Girls, with supp

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