Gender Equality, Migration Watch Now: COVID-Induced Crises and Refugee Women's Livelihoods with Wai Wai Nu

The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects for women refugees and internally displaced women around the world, but particularly in the Global South. Wai Wai Nu, a former political prisoner and Rohingya activist, joined us to deliver the keynote address for a Perry World House workshop on how COVID-19 has affected refugee women’s access to livelihood opportunities, healthcare, and housing in Global South cities.

Speaking from her own experiences, Wai Wai Nu focuses on the impacts of COVID-19 on refugee and internally displaced women in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Thailand. She reflects on displaced women’s experiences of life during the pandemic and how COVID-19 has impacted their work, health, and housing. She also identifies how displaced women have overcome these challenges, as well as the opportunities for transformation that have come with the pandemic, and provides recommendations for improving refugee and internally displaced women’s access to dignified work, healthcare, and housing, in cities across the Global South and worldwide.

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