A/HRC/44/3 E/CN.6/2020/8 12. The project in Bangladesh is focused on female landowners in the southwest of the country who have been displaced by private land investments. They were displaced in a context of high levels of physical, sexual and psychological violence against women exercised by their families and communities, in particular in rural areas. Grantee organization Badabon Sangho is using a small grant from the trust fund to support women who have been or remain at risk of being displaced in four subdistricts of Bagerhat District. 13. The project implemented in Mexico by the grantee organization Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migración is aimed at strengthening protection measures offered to women and girls who seek asylum and are survivors of violence, as well as to improve the provision of services including legal aid, medical and psychological assistance, and expert advice, during the asylum process. An unprecedented number of women and girls from Central American countries are seeking asylum in Mexico. Many of them are survivors of gender-based violence. 14. In Kenya, a project led by the HIAS Refugee Trust of Kenya has as its purpose to encourage men to reject interpersonal violence and to increase reporting by women of gender-based violence, in three locations in Nairobi county that have large refugee populations. A second project, implemented by the Forum for Women in Development, Democracy and Justice, is focused on adolescent girls and young women who are refugees and are at particular risk of trafficking, sexual slavery and forced marriage because of their age and the disruption of their social networks, problems that are growing in areas with a high concentration of refugees in Nairobi and in Kajiado County. 15. Another special funding window that the trust fund opened in 2018 is focused on women and girls with disabilities. Globally, women and girls with disabilities are up to three times more likely to be raped, twice as likely to experience other forms of gender-based violence and likely to suffer worse injuries and more prolonged abuse than women and girls without disabilities. 8 In 2019, in its twenty-second cycle, the trust fund awarded five new grants for projects focused on violence against women and girls with disabilities. 16. In Eswatini, the Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse is implementing a project in several communities in Lubombo Region, including the Malin dza refugee camp, to change attitudes about gender, improve the delivery of services to those who have experienced violence and raise awareness about refugee rights and the rights of young women and girls with disabilities. In Indonesia, Organisasi Harapan Nusantara is implementing a project to end violence against women and girls living with disabilities. The target beneficiaries are women and girls with low levels of education and literacy and those living in poverty and in rural areas in five districts o f Yogyakarta. In Nepal, the Nepal Disabled Women Association is working as part of a consortium to confront the growing violence against women and girls with disabilities in the country and to empower women and girls with disabilities to prevent violence and achieve justice. In Peru, Paz y Esperanza is leading a project to raise awareness of violence against women and girls with disabilities and improve access to multisectoral services for survivors in the Lima, Cusco and San Martín regions. And in Zimbabwe, Leonard Cheshire Disability Zimbabwe was one of the organizations awarded a grant for a project focused on violence against girls and women in six rural and underserved districts in Zimbabwe that have high rates of poverty and HIV/AIDS. The grant came under the trust fund’s “by invitation only” window. A new aspect introduced with this second project is a focus on working with the Ministry of Health __________________ 8 19-21597 Stephanie Ortoleva and Hope Lewis, Forgotten Sisters: A Report on Violence against Women with Disabilities – An Overview of Its Nature, Scope, Causes and Consequences , Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 104–2012 (Boston, Massachusetts, 2012). 5/15