There were so many revelations about men in senior positions in well-known aid organisations who had manipulated their way into continuously being posted to countries where the conducive context (e.g., war, natural disaster) would allow them easy access to exploit women and/or children.
Other conducive contexts where these conditions apply include residential and locked institutions: children’s homes, mental hospitals, prisons, police stations have all been identified as spaces in which violence is commonplace and is all too often tolerated.
Institutionalised gendered power relations can also be identified in educational institutions, faith organisations and workplaces: all are contexts where men’s status and authority, rather than inducing an ethic of care, can be used by abusive men to intimidate and silence.
...conflict, dislocation and migration constitute contexts in which the vulnerability of women and girls is accentuated by external conditions over which they have little if any control.
Jackie Turner (2013) has developed this analytical frame with respect to trafficking, noting that in international human rights thinking women’s vulnerability derives from their subordinate status in gender orders (Connell, 2009). They are, in turn, disproportionately affected by conflict, economic crises and the deepened inequalities heralded by globalisation. At the same time women migrants have fewer options for legal migration and are thus more reliant on the irregular routes controlled by smugglers and traffickers.
However, disappointingly, it seems that none of the organisations involved want to address this in public and face up to it for fear of losing government support as well as private donors.
discoversociety.org/2016/03/01/theorising-violence-against-women-and-girls/