Dalit Camera: Through Untouchable Eyes
Samata BiswasHuman Rights violations and its media coverage have been under a scanner for its inconsistence reporting, and choosing to report based on market interests and interests of target audience....
View Article“Shaping Technology” for the Protection of Refugees
Marko Szilveszter MACSKOVICHThe incorporation of innovation into the humanitarian workflow, striving to find new solutions, especially from outside of the sector and to express willingness to embrace...
View ArticleQ&A Session with Meghna Guhathakurta
This report is prepared by Shreya Ghosh. She was a participant of the Eleventh Annual Orientation Course on Forced Migration, 2013[Meghna Guhathakurta is the Executive Director of Research Initiatives,...
View ArticleAustralia to Shut Down for Mainland Immigration Centres
Compiled by Ishita DeyAustralia has been under the scanner for its immigration policies and in its latest attempt to securitise borders the Government has announced to shut down the mainland...
View ArticleAfghan Refugees in India Fear Return
Compiled by Ishita DeyAs of 2011, there were more than 18000 refugees in India (External Affairs Ministry) and out of them 10,000 reportedly were registered with UNHCR. Though international statistics...
View ArticleIDPs from Swat Province in Uncertainty as Peace Talks Fail between
Compiled by Ishita DeyOn 15 February 2014, a news report in TOI carried a report of how families were looking forward to the peace talks between Government of Pakistan and the Taliban. This instilled a...
View ArticleSocial Media and Humanitarian Disasters
Ishita DeyIt is important to highlight at the outset that social media is personal and public in nature. The personal status messages range from what one had for breakfast, to voicing opinions. The...
View ArticleArticle 7
Compiled by- Kruthika NSWalter G. Craddock Paper Prize:Dr. Lopita Nath, Associate Professor of History and Chair, University of the Incarnate Word, USA was awarded the Walter G. Craddock Paper Prize...
View ArticleSri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India: Will they be Granted Citizenship?
Arpita SenguptaSri Lankan refugees came to India during the Sri Lankan Civil War which continued erratically from 1983 to 2009 and millions of them have still not found an asylum in their own country....
View ArticleClimate Refugee Problem: In Light of New IPCC Report
Deva Prasad M.The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) report which was finalized after the five day long conference on 30th March, 2014 deals with the impacts of climate change on human...
View ArticleSummary of UNHCR Protection Manual
- Shreeparna DuttaUNHCR has recently launched its online Protection Manual. The Protection Manual is organized by theme/subject. Under each heading, the documents are arranged in reverse chronological...
View ArticleA Place for the Poor: Slum Dwelling in Dhaka City
Annemiek PrinsA wall between the rich and poor is being built, so that poverty does not annoy the powerful and the poor are obliged to die in the silence of history - Pablo RichardIn August 2012 I...
View ArticleThe Rohingya Scenario: Role of Bangladesh and India in Myanmar’s Concealed...
Kruthika N.S.In Myanmar around June 2012, a Buddhist woman was raped and killed by three Muslim men. In a revenge attack following the incident, ten Muslim men were killed, and the rest of the story...
View ArticleThe Enduring ‘Problem ‘ of Refugee Protection in Hong Kong
Luke MarshThe HKSAR stands unique in the world as a post-industrialized state which is not subject to the terms of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (“the Refugee Convention”)...
View ArticleStatelessness in India
Shuvro Prosun SarkerThe principal objective behind any research on statelessness in India should be to find out the communities/groups within India who are lacking nationality, rather protection of...
View ArticleUkrainian Refugee Exodus Continues
The republics in Russia’s North Caucasus will receive over 500 refugees from southeast Ukraine, a Russian Emergencies Ministry source told Itar-Tass. An Emergencies Ministry plane delivered 125 people,...
View ArticleRefugees in Stand-off With Police at Berlin School
Hundreds of police officers have surrounded a former school in Berlin which has been occupied by refugees who refuse to leave. The predominantly African refugees are demanding the right to stay in...
View ArticleIreland to Resettle Syrian Refugees
The UN’s refugee agency has welcomed the Ireland’s decision to resettle 220 refugees in 2015 and 2016, including many from war-torn Syria. The announcement, made in Geneva yesterday at a high-level UN...
View ArticleAustralia and Sri Lankan Boat Refugees
The Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has refused to confirm claims by refugee activists that a boat carrying Tamil asylum seekers off the coast of Christmas Island is in trouble. On the...
View ArticleThe Crisis of South Sudan
- Kaikho Osha South Sudan, the newest formed nation, born out of decades of conflicts, still looks a long way from reconciliation. The conflict that erupted in the middle of December 2013 has escalated...
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