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‘Netherlands: Ours Again’
The defeat of Geert Wilders — leader of the Dutch Partij Voor de Vrijheid (PVV) “Party for Freedom” — in the March general elections of the Netherlands was hailed as a triumph by European politicians. German Chancellor Angela Merkel commented the result ‘was a good day for democracy’, and French President François Hollande expressed the […]
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Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2017/04/netherlands-ours-again/
Refugee Education: A Big Challenge
When a child is forced to flee their country, their educational process is interrupted and rarely continued. In September 2016, UNHCR launched “Missing out: Refugee Education in Crisis”, a report that indicates the decline in learning opportunities when children are forced to flee their homes. The majority of the world’s refugees – 86% – are sheltered by […]
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Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2017/01/refugee-education-a-big-challenge/
Closure of Dadaab poses serious concerns for refugees
Dadaab, the largest refugee base in the world, is set to close by May 2017. Set up in 1991 to accommodate refugees fleeing from the Somali civil war, Dadaab has been hosting refugees for over 25 years. The complex holds around 280,000 refugees, of which 260,000 are Somali. Plans to close the camp by the […]
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Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2016/11/closure-of-dadaab-poses-serious-concerns-for-refugees/
Over 1 Million Afghan Refugees Returned to Afghanistan
Over 1 million Afghan refugees have returned to their country of origin. This is the largest influx of refugees returning to Afghanistan since the Taliban regime fell in 2011. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), one-fifth of refugees returned involuntarily from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran. As security deteriorated last year, more than 200,000 Afghans […]
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Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2016/11/over-1-million-afghan-refugees-returned-to-afghanistan/
2,500 refugees are crossing from South Sudan into Uganda every day
South Sudan’s conflict represents one of the world’s biggest humanitarian crises. Recently, the number of South Sudanese refugees has passed the one million mark. An estimated number of 2,500 refugees are crossing from South Sudan into Uganda every day. Most of the are accommodated in settlement camps, lacking proper resources. At least 200,000 South Sudanese […]
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Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2016/11/2500-refugees-are-crossing-from-south-sudan-into-uganda-every-day/
Redefining Refugees: Updating the “Refugee” Definition (Part 1)
This paper addresses: (A) the role of “transit countries” and politicisation of asylum in modern refugee crises, and how the ambiguity in forced displacement terminology has been manipulated by countries to ban arrivals based on nationality; and (B) the need to facilitate movement of persons by modernising the 1951 Convention refugee definition.
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Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2016/11/redefining-refugees-updating-the-refugee-definition-part-1/
Hurricane Matthew’s impact on Haiti rekindles debate on environmental refugees
Hurricane Mathew smashed through Haiti leaving a trail of destruction. Every new count points to a growth in the number of victims, with the most recent non-official reports indicating more than 800 deaths. It was the first Category 4 storm to hit Haiti in more than a half century. The storm flattened homes, destroyed bridges, submerged […]
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Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2016/10/hurricane-matthews-impact-on-haiti-rekindles-debate-on-environmental-refugees/
EU-Afghanistan agreement to return Afghans denied asylum in Europe
Hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees in Europe, Pakistan and Iran are being forced to return to their country of origin by the European Union (EU), UN agencies and governments in the region. The flow of returning refugees from neighbouring Iran and Pakistan is estimated by the United Nations to number more than half a […]
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Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2016/10/eu-afghanistan-agreement-to-return-afghans-denied-asylum-in-europe/
The Plight of Afghan Refugees in Iran
Only a third of the total number of Afghan refugees in Iraq are UN-registered as the Iranian authorities have not provided all of them with the opportunity to legally claim asylum. Those born within Iran’s borders do holding UN-recognise refugee status; however, they lack many of the rights granted to Iranian Citizens. A large number of […]
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Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2016/10/the-plight-of-afghan-refugees-in-iran/
Refugee Crisis at the US-Mexico Border
https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/vb.7382473689/10154713881933690/?type=2&theater As an unprecedented numbers of Haitians and Africans are trying to reach the US, a refugee crisis is unfolding near the US-Mexico border. With a high number of refugees fleeing to the US, refugee centres are now overwhelmed. Refugees arrive with little or no resources at all, and centres are struggling to meet requirements for basic needs such as water, […]
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Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2016/10/refugee-crisis-at-the-us-mexico-border/
