Over the last two years, the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) Global Studies Programme has organised a series of workshops in Africa on Refugees' Right to Communicate. The series culminated in the publication of a call to action summarising the key findings of the workshops. Here, Valérie Gatabazi highlights critical gender issues in relation to the situation of refugees, based on the presentation she gave at one of the workshops which took place in the Great Lakes region of Africa. The issues are universal and call for urgent redress, especially with regard to the situation of women and girls in refugee camps.