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By 1 April 2023, altogether 504,107 Ukrainian individuals had been granted temporary protection in the country, of whom 325,742 had applied for extension of their refugee status beyond March 2023. 68% of the refugees were of working age, of whom 65% were female and 35% male, 28% were children and 4% elderly. [137]
The media have reported about Ukrainian refugee women and girls being raped in the places where they sought safety. Almost all of the 3.6 million Ukrainians who have left Ukraine since Russia ...
The organization is compromised entirely of women drivers for women and children refugees, with about 200 active drivers, and began after a Polish woman volunteer saw the distrust of refugees to male volunteer drivers when she arrived at the Dorohusk crossing. [64] Women refugees have also faced discrimination and violence once outside of Ukraine.
As communities become more fragmented, and the economy struggles, the Ukrainian government wants to encourage those who fled as refugees, most of them women and children, to return.
After Ukraine regained independence in 1991, a feminist movement began taking root. [9] As of 2010, there are several women's rights groups active in Ukraine, [11] [12] [13] including Feminist Ofenzyva [14] and Ukrainian Woman's Union. [15] FEMEN, the most active women's rights group in Kyiv, was officially closed in 2013. The organization left ...
The fighting has displaced an estimated 3.7 million people internally, according to the U.N., and about 6.5 million people have left Ukraine as refugees. As for Lumikovska, the future remains unclear.
In January 2017 there were 3,302 foreigners with refugee status in Ukraine. [2] Most refugees came from Afghanistan, Syria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Somalia. [2] After the start of the war in Donbas in 2014 several hundred foreigners (mostly Russians and Belarusians) migrated to Ukraine to join its territorial defence battalions and army ...
A charity is calling on the government to rethink the visas it offers Ukrainians living in the UK and include a permanent route to settlement. Many Ukrainian nationals, who moved to the UK after ...