Campaigners working to highlight sexual discrimination and violence against female aid workers and development staff have welcomed a move by top humanitarian officials to implement their recommendations to combat the abuse.
The Humanitarian Women’s Network was set up earlier this year by a group of female aid workers in response to growing concerns about the number of women suffering harassment and attacks while working on aid projects.
HWN has petitioned the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, which is led by the United Nations and acts as the central forum for the coordination of humanitarian assistance between different agencies, and NGOs, to take up the issue.
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Sophie Edwards
Sophie Edwards is a Devex Contributing Reporter covering global education, water and sanitation, and innovative financing, along with other topics. She has previously worked for NGOs, and the World Bank, and spent a number of years as a journalist for a regional newspaper in the U.K. She has a master's degree from the Institute of Development Studies and a bachelor's from Cambridge University.