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Public health equity in refugee situations
Addressing increasing concerns about public health equity in the context of violent conflict and the consequent forced displacement of populations is complex. Important operational questions now faced by humanitarian agencies can to some extent be clarified by reference to relevant ethical theory. Priorities of service delivery, the allocation choices, and the processes by which they are arrived at are now coming under renewed scrutiny in the light of the estimated two million refugees who fled from Iraq since 2003
Refugees in Central America and Mexico
Refugees in Central America and Mexic
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Summary Report for Nutrition Coordinator
Document collected by the University of Texas Libraries from the web-site of the Reseau Documentaire International Sur La Region Des Grands Lacs Africains (International Documentation Network on the Great African Lakes Region). The Reseau distributes "gray literature", non-published or limited distribution government or NGO documents regarding the Great Lakes area of central Africa including Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.UT Librarie
Women\u2019s human rights when experiencing humanitarian crises and conflicts: the impact of United Nations Security Council Resolutions on women, peace, security, and the CEDAW General Recommendation no. 30.
Violence and insecurity are strictly linked to unequal political, social, and economic power. However, the continuity of violence is obscured by masculinist
and patriarchal rules of security within gendered structures, especially inside the division of public/private dimensions and spaces, of production-reproduction activities, and of conflicts of war/peace.
Nowadays, there is a general perception of the gendered dimensions of humanitarian emergencies in public policy outcomes and more in general
in institutional contexts where the central role of women in security and maintaining peace, at all levels of decision making, both prior to, during, and
after the conflict stage, hostilities, and peace-keeping and peace-building stages, as well as in trying to pursue a condition of reconciliation and reconstruction, has been formally recognized at international level.
Nevertheless, it is necessary to focus on some problems related to the conceptualization of and legal provision for \u2018gender based security\u2019 and its
subsequent effects upon accountability, with particular reference to transitional justice and post-conflict societies. It is important to assess a range of contemporary issues implicated for women and security, such as violence and other forms of harassment in times of post-conflict
"Infiltrators" or refugees? An analysis of Israel's policy towards African asylum seekers
This article adopts a genealogical approach in examining Israeli immigration policy by focusing on the situation confronting African asylum seekers who have been forced back into Egypt, detained and deported but who have not had their asylum claims properly assessed. Based on immigration policies formulated at the time of Israeli independence, whose principle objective was to secure a Jewish majority state, we argue that Israelâs treatment of African asylum seekers as âinfiltratorsâ/economic migrants stems from an insistence on maintaining immigration as a sovereign issue formally isolated from other policy domains. Such an
approach is not only in violation of Israelâs commitment to the Refugee Convention, it directly contributes to policies which are ineffective and unduly harsh
Creative engagement with migration in Morocco:An ethnographic exploration of photographic encounters
Common agenda or Europe's agenda? International protection, human rights and migration from the Horn of Africa
This paper examines the relationship between international protection, human rights and migration in the context of EU Agenda on Migration which aims to âtackle migration upstreamâ and reduce the number of arrivals to Europe from countries in the Horn of Africa (HoA) (Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan). These initiatives are underpinned by assumptions about the factors driving migration from the region, including the idea that poverty rather than political oppression and human rights abuse is the principal cause. The paper draws on interview and survey data with 128 people originating from HoA countries and arriving in Europe between March 2011 and October 2016 to show that conflict, insecurity and human rights abuse in countries of origin and neighbouring countries drive decisions to move. This evidence challenges the premises underlying the European Agenda. Moreover, a lack of coherence between the EUâs ambitions to control irregular migration and the rights-violating States with which Europe seeks to engage threatens to create further political destabilisation which may ultimately increase, rather than decrease, outward migration from the region. Agreements between the EU and HoA should be re-centred to focus on compliance with international human rights standards rather than Statesâ willingness and to prevent irregular migration to Europe
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