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Lecture ten, Displacement 
, with Leah Zamore, Senior Policy Analyst and director of the Humanitarian Crises program at NYU's Center on International Cooperation. Notes while listening (in my own words)   "Unlike human rights treaties the Refugee Treaty targets not the host country alone but the whole international community as a whole"   "The UNHCR was a group of lawyers who had to check if countries were abiding to the legal framework of the Treaty but the main interaction of the UN is now humanitarian (food, shelter etc)   "Definitions as a refugee by the time was focussed on Europeans. The term of who was a refugee was never meant to be global refugee regime. Eurocentric and timelimited."   "Latin American and African regional refugee treaties are broader"   "Extra protection on top of human right treaties for people who are awarded refugee status. You have to treat them like your own nationals."   "Refoulement is ...

More than 550,000 refugees made the arduous journey back to  their  countries  of  origin  in  2016,  mainly  to  Afghanistan,  Somalia  and  Sudan.  For  many  returnees,  however,  repatriation  carries  the  risk  of  de  facto  internal  displacement  (if  they are unable to go back to their place of origin or sustainably integrate elsewhere) or secondary displacement (if they are forced to uproot their lives again). This demands a more holistic approach to durable solutions that integrates planning and policy for internally displaced people (IDPs) with that for returning refugees to mitigate the risk of people being caught up in secondary, multiple or pendular movements. Meer:  http://www.internal-displacement.org/assets/publications/2017/20171113-idmc-policy-brief-global-compact-refugees.pdf Interessant artikel? Deel het eens met uw n...

Hardly a day goes by without discussions about the refugees who are crossing international borders. However, there are tens of millions of refugees who do not get to leave their country of origin. These ‘Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) are barely discussed on the news. Who are these IDPs and what is their position under international law? What are their rights and which actors have to provide them with those rights? Examples of well known countries with a high number of IDPs per capita are Syria, Iraq,the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. However, there are countries with a high number of IDPs that are not known to the general public. Among these countries is Azerbaijan, which has more than 600 000 IDPs due to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. With the Nagorno Karabakh conflict still not solved after more than 20 years, what is their position and what is done to make sure the rights of these forgotten group of people is ensured? This and more will be discussed du...

UN officials have claimed that Somalia is safe and requires its citizens to help with the reconstruction process [EPA] Nairobi, Kenya - Gay, lesbian and HIV-infected refugees from Somalia are facing persecution - and even the threat of death - should they return home. Refugees have been under pressure to leave accommodations in Kenya, where many also face racist discrimination, after claims the country is now significantly safer than when Al-Shabaab had control of Mogadishu. But many gay Somalis say returning is not an option for them. "Warlords have made Somalia a death chamber for gays and lesbians," said Jamal, a Somali journalist. "It is against international law to force such groups back to Somalia, given the risks." 'It will be a massacre' Top UN officials, among them Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, have claimed, however, that the country is safe and requires its citizens to help with the reconstruction proc...

JOHANNESBURG, 21 November 2012 (IRIN) - Refugee crises appear to come and go. In 2011, all eyes were on the Dadaab refugee complex in northern Kenya as it received hundreds of thousands of Somalis fleeing famine and conflict. This year, attention has shifted to the refugee exodus from Syria, even though the majority of Somalis who arrived at Dadaab last year are still there. In fact, most refugee and displacement crises continue long after public attention and donor interest wane, and others never make it into the spotlight. This often leaves the UN’s Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and aid organizations with the difficult task of assisting large populations of refugees, forced migrants and internally displaced people (IDPs) without sufficient funding, political will or support from the international community. Below, IRIN takes a look at some of the most neglected refugee and displacement crises around the world. 1. Sudanese refugees in Chad: Nearly a decade of conflict in...

Gevonden op Twitter: Dara McLeod @ mcleoddk   An IDP camp nestled amongst the ruins of Mogadishu's cathedral. Everywhere there is space here, there are IDPs pic.twitter.com/rFAvS3QB wytzia raspe ‏ @ wytzia @ mcleoddk Is it ok when I put your picture on my immigration law blog?   Dara McLeod ‏ @ mcleoddk @ wytzia No problem! Please credit Refugees International. en ook: Mark Yarnell ‏ @ yarnellmark ...

Reopening the San Martino hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu has been a largely thankless task for Dr Aisha Omar Ahmed. Instead of earning a tidy living as a consultant obstetrician in Europe, the hospital director has been working mostly unpaid and in appalling conditions. Since quitting her medical career in Rome to return home to a city and country at war, the 44-year-old has been threatened, beaten and shot at. So far she has chosen to stay. "I was watching Somalia for 20 years in the headlines. I saw the [wounded] children brought to Italy for treatment. I was always thinking about this country," she says. The San Martino is barely recognisable as a hospital. A cluster of wind-blown Italianate ruins overlooking the Indian Ocean near the old port, it has long since been overrun by squatters fleeing the destruction elsewhere in the capital. The wards and operating theatres, laundry and clinic have been variously shelled, occupied or looted. The new residents at...