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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/
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/
AMISOM’s withdrawal: what prospects for Somalia without international support?
The AU has announced a cessation of its 22,000 strong peacekeeping mission currently operating in Somalia by the end of 2017. The decision was accelerated in August by a 20 per cent financial cut in sponsorship from the European Union, which forced the Ugandan government, AMISOM’s largest military contingent to initiate a unilateral withdrawal […]
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Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2016/09/somalia-withdrawal/
Attempted Coup in Turkey: Two Months On
On the evening of 15 July, 2016, reports of armed clashes in Ankara and Istanbul dominated global news coverage as a group of military officers attempted to seize power from the government headed by President Erdogan. This operation sought to secure sites of information dissemination and restrict movement through the country, but ultimately failed in […]
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Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2016/09/2855/
Europe: a Year on from Merkel’s ‘Wir schaffen das’ (We can do it!) on Refugees
Marking the anniversary of Chancellor Merkel’s statements offering sanctuary to Syrian refugees in 2015, the Chancellor has now made critical statements highlighting faults made in the European response to the refugee crisis. Ms. Merkel commented on Europe being ill-prepared for a refugee crisis that had been building for several years, and the severely lacking coordination and […]
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Link https://iisa.org.uk/featured/2016/08/europe-a-year-on-from-merkels-wir-schaffen-das-we-can-do-it-on-refugees/
