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FORUM: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
ISSUE: Using ICTs to improve conditions for women and girls in UNHCR refugee camps
MAIN SUBMITTER: Sweden
CO-SUBMITTERS: Australia, France, Germany, Google, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Saudi
Arabia, Switzerland

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees committee,

Deeply disturbed by the human rights violations that are currently happening in refugee camps

such as the violation of Article 2, Article 5, and Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights,

Fully aware of the reasons as to why these human rights violations are even happening in the
first place such as lack of proper law enforcement and security,

Alarmed by the lack of proper medical and psychological treatment in refugee camps,

Noting with deep concern the lack of medical facilities and basic medical training,

Recalling that the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that "all human beings
are born free and equal in dignity and rights ... without any distinction whatsoever, in particular
of race, color, sex, language, religion, of political opinion or any other opinion, of national or

social origin, of fortune, birth or any other situation”,

Considering the digital divide to be a scourge that affects populations’ access to technology,

Bearing in mind the need to be listened to following the trauma endured by women victims of
assault, sexual or not,

Recognising that displacement generally aggravates gender inequalities, marked by sexual
and gender-based violence against women and girls, unsystematic, but impossible to ignore,

Considering information and communication technologies (ICT) as having a real impact on
the functioning of modern societies,

1. Encourages the use of ICTs to improve the surveillance of facilities and in turn safety of
women in refugee camps including:
a. Deployment of additional security cameras in public UNHCR refugee camp

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