This research is part of a group of studies from Plan International called “Girls in Crisis” that analyzes the situation of adolescent girls and women in various emergency and crisis situations. This research has confirmed that the effects of these experiences are not the same for every girl or woman. When a crisis arises, external factors have an important impact on adolescents’ growth and development processes.
In a regional context of systemic violence, it is necessary to specifically take into account the violence, by reason of gender and age, that adolescents and young women go through in all areas of their day to day life (community, family, partner, sexual, among others), be it in their countries of origin, which constitutes a reason for their migration, or as violence experienced in the migratory journey, if they are forced to leave their home.
