FMR 45 Connecting and communicating after Typhoon Haiyan
In the first month of the Typhoon Haiyan response, one of the priorities facing the international community was to re-establish internet connectivity ...
Crisis (Forced Migration Review 45)
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Many people who are displaced, or become ‘trapped’, in the context of diverse humanitarian crises do not fit well within existing legal, policy and operational frameworks for the protection of refugees and IDPs. This raises questions about whether there needs to be – or can be – more systematic ways of dealing with assistance and protection for people affected by ‘crises’ such as environmental disruption, gang violence, nuclear disasters, food shortages and so on. FMR 45 contains 33 articles on crisis, migration and displacement, and eight general articles on other subjects relating to forced migration. See more at: http://www.fmreview.org/crisis
FMR 45 Internal displacement in Kenya: the quest for durable solutions
Internal displacement in Kenya has been a challenge since the colonial era but only recently has a legal framework been developed to address IDP prote...
FMR 45 Dictatorships, refugees and reparation in the Southern Cone of Latin America
Since the return of democracy to Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay there has been particular recognition of forced displacement within t...
FMR 45 Perspectives of refugees on returning to Somalia
MSF recently asked Somali refugees in Dadaab’s Dagahaley camp about their living conditions and their thoughts about returning to Somalia in the near ...
FMR 45 Opportunity to change Lebanon’s asylum policy
Lebanon’s attitude towards the ‘Syrian exception’ can be used as the starting point for its policy to come into line with international refugee and hu...
FMR 45 Translating global education standards to local contexts
Global standards such as the Education in Emergencies Minimum Standards need to be applied locally and this requires a thoughtful and committed contex...
FMR 45 The potential role of a racial discrimination law in Myanmar
Ethnic discrimination has long fuelled violence and displacement within Myanmar, especially in relation to people of Rohingya ethnicity who have been ...
FMR 45 New OAS Conventions protecting IDPs against racism and discrimination
Two new Conventions approved in 2013 have the potential to offer greater protection to vulnerable groups, including IDPs, in the Americas.
FMR 45 The global governance of crisis migration
There is no coherent or unified global governance framework for the different areas that have been subsumed under the umbrella of ‘crisis migration’.
FMR 45 Disaster risk reduction and mobility
An essential step for advancing risk reduction measures at the local level is to define mobility-based indicators of vulnerability and resilience that...