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Refugees & forced migration
RSS FeedSomaliland: Sexual violence on rise in Hargeisa IDP camps
2012-02-02, Issue 568
Cases of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), as well as domestic violence, are increasing in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland, with social workers attribut...
South Africa: Refugee children miss out on school
2012-02-02, Issue 568
While the quality of education available in refugee camps varies, the difficulties of accessing education in urban settings are generally greater. In addition to legal and policy barriers and the often prohibitive costs of sending a child to a local ...
South Africa: Police slammed for refusing to help beaten Zim man
2012-02-02, Issue 568
South Africa’s police force is facing criticism for refusing to help a Zimbabwean man, who was beaten by security guards at a refugee reception office in that country last week. The man, Lucky Dube, was trying to sort out his asylum documents at the ...
Africa: Just Justice? Civil society, international justice and the search for accountability
2012-02-06, Issue 568
The International Refugee Rights (IRRI)’s experience over the last seven years is that in the enthusiasm to embrace the promise of international justice there has often been inadequate space for honest reflection on the practice and reality of intern...
Mauritania: Touareg refugees pour into Mauritania
2012-02-06, Issue 568
Thousands of Touareg refugees fleeing clashes in northern Mali entered Mauritania in recent days, escaping the fighting between the Malian army and Touareg rebels from the National Movement for the Liberation of Azaouad (MNLA). 'Since January 28th, a...
DRC: UNHCR alarmed at reports of atrocities against displaced Congolese
2012-02-06, Issue 568
The UN refugee agency said Friday 3 February it was alarmed by recent reports that Congolese civilians have been tortured and killed by armed groups entering camps for the internally displaced in the volatile province of North Kivu. The agency called...
South Africa: Red tape ensnares asylum seekers
2012-01-24, Issue 567
Asylum-seekers entering South Africa are no longer being issued with the necessary documents to apply for refugee status. Without a so-called section 23 permit, they are being turned away from Refugee Reception Offices (RROs) and denied the opportuni...
Kenya: UN concerned about worsening security at camps
2012-01-25, Issue 567
The United Nations says it is concerned about worsening security at refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia that are home to more than 700,000 Somali citizens. The UN refugee agency says it is particularly worried about the situation in Kenya’s massive D...
Kenya: US urges Kenya not to send back Somali refugees
2012-01-26, Issue 567
Kenya has been urged to continue providing refuge to Somalis fleeing violence and hunger in their homeland, a US State Department official said. 'We continue to rely on and advocate strongly for the protection of Somalis inside Kenya, that they shoul...
Ethiopia: Saudi Star among firms behind thousands of forced relocations
2012-01-26, Issue 567
Last week BBC News reported that 70,000 indigenous people have been forced to relocate in the western Gambella region of Ethiopia to new villages that lack adequate resources for their survival. The land has been signed over to foreign investors, inc...
South Africa: Attacking and blaming foreign nationals not the answer
2012-01-29, Issue 567
The South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) continues to be alarmed at the growing number of violent attacks on foreign nationals, of which recent events in Thokozo in Ekurhuleni is an example. The burning down of small businesses in our townsh...
Kenya: The rise of Somali capital
2012-01-18, Issue 566
In this article from the online journal The Chimurenga Chronic Parselelo Kantai looks at the rise of Somali diaspora capital in Nairobi. 'Somali money was supplanting more established ethnic capital; the Indian and Kikuyu, the two most visible mercan...
Global: Tracing the UK's restrictionist asylum policies
2012-01-18, Issue 566
Over the last 20 years, there has been a radical shift in public perceptions of and political reactions to asylum seekers in democratic states across the world. As numbers of asylum seekers have risen, at times dramatically, governments of all politi...
Global: Displaced women's aid needs overlooked
2012-01-19, Issue 566
Aid agencies and donors are failing to take into account the relief and security needs of women displaced by disasters and conflicts, according to Elisabeth Rasmusson, Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). For example, in Pakistan...
DRC: Two deaths in three weeks in Spain's notorious detention centres
2012-01-19, Issue 566
In the early hours of 5 January, a 21-year-old man from Guinea-Conraky, died in Barcelona's immigration detention centre after complaining of chest pains or (according to another report) breathing problems. The young man was the second person to die...
Nigeria: Boko Haram displaced fear returning home
2012-01-19, Issue 566
Many of the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled their homes following a string of deadly attacks by 'terrorist group' Boko Haram in northern Nigeria over recent weeks have not yet been able to return home - or been offered any shelter by the...
Ethiopia: Forced relocations bring hunger, hardship
2012-01-22, Issue 566
The Ethiopian government under its villagization' program is forcibly relocating approximately 70,000 indigenous people from the western Gambella region to new villages that lack adequate food, farmland, healthcare, and educational facilities, Human ...
Global: For the respect of migrants
2012-01-23, Issue 566
The unequal development that characterises the world today is forcing vastly more and more people to look for a better future in another country. In the last few decades international migration has grown enormously. The neo-liberal policies that domi...
Somalia: US bank move highlights importance of remittances
2012-01-09, Issue 565
The welfare of hundreds of thousands of Somalis who depend on financial assistance from the diaspora is at risk following a decision by a US bank to close down accounts of Somali money transfer companies in the state of Minnesota by 30 December, acco...
Egypt: Organ trafficking on the rise, says report
2012-01-11, Issue 565
The political unrest that rocked Egypt last year seems to have shaken the country's law enforcement apparatus, creating loopholes for organ traffickers. During that period, cases of organ trafficking of Sudanese refugees and other political asylum se...
Global: The state of environmental migration
2012-01-11, Issue 565
This volume published at the end of 2011 is intended to be the first of an annual series, which will aim to provide the reader with regularly-updated qualitative assessments on the changing nature and dynamics of environmental migration throughout th...
Angola: Angola gets strict with illegal Nam immigrants
2012-01-12, Issue 565
The Angolan government has warned Namibians living illegally in that country to get their papers in order. Namibians living or grazing their cattle in the Cunene and Quando Cubango provinces bordering Namibia have been urged to apply for residence pe...
Mauritania: Former refugees demand return of land
2012-01-12, Issue 565
A hundred former Mauritanian refugees, repatriated from Senegal, have staged a protest outside the National Assembly, demanding that their agricultural land, confiscated after their expulsion in 1989, be returned to them, PANA reports. They are also ...
Global: Exploring the impact of new technologies on the displaced
2012-01-12, Issue 565
The articles in Issue 38 of Forced Migration Review cover the positive and the negative aspects of the spread of technologies; the increased accountability, and the increased scope for controlling displaced people; the opening up through the internet...
Africa: Remittance fees punish poor Africans
2012-01-15, Issue 565
The World Bank has identified South Africa and Tanzania as having some of the highest costs for remittance payments in the world, with some charges as high as 25 per cent of the money being transferred. Remittance payment is the transfer of money acr...
Haiti: Haitian migrants test Brazil's solidarity
2012-01-15, Issue 565
Brazil, for decades a source of migrants to the United States and Europe, is now facing its own humanitarian challenge: applying the international solidarity it trumpets to the Haitians who are arriving in the thousands, in search of a better life. D...
Zimbabwe: Activist set to be deported from UK
2011-12-13, Issue 563
A Zimbabwean activist, Gladys Mabvira, is set to spend her first Christmas in Harare in nine years as she is set to be kicked out of the UK next week. She has been an active member of opposition group ZAPU UK. Her open and public participation with t...
South Africa: Court orders refugee office to remain open
2011-12-13, Issue 563
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the Refugee Rights Centre at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, on behalf of the Somali Association of South Africa (SASA) and the Project for Conflict Resolution and Development (PCRD) was granted an order...
Southern Africa: Counter-trafficking measures trail commitments
2011-12-13, Issue 563
At any given time, an estimated 130,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa are engaged in forced labour as a result of trafficking. It is a fraction of the global figure, which the International Labour Organisation (ILO) puts at 2.5 million, but this highl...
South Africa: Alarm over decision to review asylum seekers’ right to work and study
Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF), Solidarity Peace Trust (SPT), PASSOP and Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC)
2011-12-14, Issue 563
'As members of Civil Society, Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF), Solidarity Peace Trust (SPT), PASSOP and Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) note with alarm and great apprehension the decision of the cabinet to review the right of asylum seekers to ...
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