Suchergebnisse

Reviews the Asylum Gender Guidelines launched on 5 Dec 2000 by the UK's Immigration Appellate Authority to determine asylum appeals.

Examines the plight of internally displaced persons in Guatemala & government failure to implement the 1997 Peace Accords, which would help to resolve land disputes, provide credit for land purchases, & protect human rights.

This article argues that capacity building has been used uncritically by humanitarian staff in international NGOs & UN agencies throughout much of the 1990s. The authors contend that capacity building holds out both promise & problems in the context of humanitarian policy & practice.

The author reflects on her experiences as a researcher focusing on the narratives of women in a Liberian refugee camp in Ghana.

Discusses evaluations of humanitarian aid.

Armed conflict in Kosovo in 1998-1999 led to the destruction of tens of thousands of homes & the mass occupation of abandoned homes as refugees were repatriated.

This article focuses on the ethical challenges arising from research in areas of conflict.

Issues around restitution of housing & property to refugees & the internally displaced wishing to return to their original homes have attracted increasing attention in recent years.

Discusses the importance of protection for the next UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

This article focuses on how gender awareness is essential for addressing the protection & participation rights of displaced women & girls, with a discussion of the role & results of the Beijing conferences.

The term 'internally displaced persons' has become prominent in the humanitarian community. Debate about terminology has been heightened by the recent assertion of the US Ambassador to the UN that the term 'IDP' is 'odious terminology' & that the only distinctions between refugees & IDPs are bureaucratic & legal.

The particular difficulties facing many women as asylum seekers stem not from the absence of 'gender' in the Refugee Convention's grounds but rather from the failure of decisionmakers to acknowledge & respond to the gendering of politics & of women's relationship to the state when applying that definition to individual cases.

Examines internal displacement in India.

For many women, rights to land, property & housing are essential to their livelihood & survival, & this is particularly so in the aftermath of war & conflict.

Forced relocation or 'regroupement' is the forced movement of entire communities, usually by a government, to permanent or semipermanent sites often directly or indirectly under the control of military units. This is ostensibly to protect the population from political insurgency; in reality, it is more often a means of depopulating whole areas as part of counter-insurgency tactics employed by a government.