Refugee Rights List Archive -- Index by Threads

• "Dramatic improvement" in Liberia, UNHCR reports, UN News Service
• "Refugee Women and Youth Resettling" (Washington, DC, 1 April), Gimena Sanchez-Garzoli
• "Unsettling Trends in U.S. Refugee Resettlement" (Washington, DC, 4 February 2003), Gimena Sanchez-Garzoli
• 'Hope' is the word as World Refugee Day is marked around the globe, UNHCR
• 'Internal refugees' need attention on World Refugee Day, Unknown
• 'Legal clinic' on wheels paves way to a new life for Burundi returnees, owner-hr-headlines
• 1st Annual Student Conference on Forced Migration (Oxford, 22 February 2003), fmlist
• 2,000 refugees from Myanmar flee to Thailand after renewed conflict, UNHCR
• 200,000 displaced by coup in Central African Republic face serious food crisis, owner-hr-headlines
• 2002 proved 'mixed bag' for refugees, UN News Service
• 2003 UNHCR Statistical Yearbook, Laurent Dusonchet
• 2003 World Refugee Day Poster Contest, usawa
• 2006 Nansen Refugee Award goes to Japanese man with global vision, HREA
• 25 million displaced persons still need protection and aid, UN News Service
• 25 Million internally displaced by wars, owner-hr-headlines
• 25 million internally displaced people worldwide exposed to rights abuses, Global IDP Project
• 2nd Annual Student Conference on Forced Migration (Warwick University, 15 March 2004), Katia Amore
• 300,000 Afghan refugees have returned home so far this year, UN News Service
• 900 Burundians return from Tanzania under latest repatriation plan, UN News Service
• Adamu's case an opportunity to further review expulsion procedures, ainews
• Afghan earthquake survivors go home from Iran, owner-hr-headlines
• Afghan refugee returns surpass 3 million, UN News Service
• Afghan refugees mistreated in exile, but afraid to go home, owner-hr-headlines
• Afghan refugees respond to signs from home, owner-hr-headlines
• Afghan returnees pick up the threads after years in exile, owner-hr-headlines
• Afghanistan unsafe for refugee returns, Human Rights Watch
• Afghanistan: 58000 Afghan refugees repatriated, Asia Human Rights News
• Afghanistan: Continuing need for refugee protection, ai-news
• Afghanistan: More than 320,000 Afghans repatriated, UN News Service
• Afghanistan: Refugees situation trapped in "no man's land" escalating, ainews
• Afghans in Pakistan cite shelter and jobs as deciding factors in return, HREA
• African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights appoints Special Rapporteur on refugees and IDPs, owner-hr-headlines
• African ministers review refugee problems, Frank Elbers
• African refugees on 'brink of hunger' as funding stalls, UN warns, UN News Service
• Al-Awda International Convention: In Defense of Palestinian Refugee Rights, Zahi Damuni
• Alarming conditions in refugee camps in Chechnya, Council of Europe Press
• Amid fighting in Liberia, hundreds of refugees return to Côte d'Ivoire, UN News Service
• Amnesty urges ASEAN members to ratify UN refugee and migrant conventions, Unknown
• Angola: Forced evictions violate basic human rights, Amnesty International
• Angola: Internally displaced need more protection, owner-hr-headlines
• Angola: Thousands forcibly evicted in postwar boom, HREA
• Annalena Tonelli receives Nansen Refugee Award, UN News Service
• Annual asylum numbers plunge in industrialised states, owner-hr-headlines
• Annual Nansen Refugee Award presented to Japanese optometrist, UNHCR
• Annual UNHCR-NGO talks open this week, owner-hr-headlines
• Appeal: Belgian Government's Brutality Over Nepalese Refugees, Milan Karki
• Arabic language version Forced Migration Review, fmlist
• As focus shifts to Lebanese returnees, UNHCR remembers thousands still displaced, UNHCR
• Asylum applications continue to tumble in industrialised countries, HREA
• Asylum applications in industrialised countries continue to plummet, UNHCR
• Asylum figures still falling in industrialised countries, says UNHCR, owner-hr-headlines
• Asylum trends in industrialized countries, second quarter 2004, Laurent Dusonchet
• AsylumRights.net: - 'Lukewarm response for UK refugee plan', frank.corrigan
• Attempts to resettle refugees away from fighting in Cote d'Ivoire rebuffed, UN News Service
• Australia: "Pacific solution" one year on -- punishing the refugees, ai-news
• Australia: Deterring asylum seekers by violating rights, owner-hr-headlines
• Australia: Pending Migration Bill threatens the fundamental rights of refugees, asylum seekers, HREA
• Australia: Release Refugee Children, owner-hr-headlines
• Australia: Ten years of detention for asylum-seekers - time for change, ABlake
• Australia: Ten-year-old policy of detention is failing, owner-hr-headlines
• Australian authorities are changing their much criticised detention policy, RGHR E-Newsletter
• Australian refugee policy is "Not for export", owner-hr-headlines
• Azerbaijan: Discrimination and segregation compound problems of internal displacement for hundreds of thousands of people, HREA
• Belgium grants asylum to Slovak Rom, European Roma Rights Center
• Benin - a textbook case of education in refugee emergencies, HREA
• Bhutan/Nepal: Talks should include refugee rights, owner-hr-headlines
• Bhutanese Refugee Update, Peoples Forum for Human Rights
• Bhutanese refugees in Nepal frustrated by lack of progress, Unknown
• Bhutanese refugees on hunger strike, Ram Bahadur Karki
• Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) (São Paulo, 9-13 January 2005), Kalyango Ronald
• Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Christen Sewell
• Burma: Army forces thousands to flee, HREA
• Burundi to set up refugee camp for new Congolese arrivals following deadly attack, owner-hr-headlines
• Call for papers for Forced Migration Review, fmlist
• Call for papers for workshop on the comparative study of Palestinian refugee return programmes (University of Exeter, 9-11 June 2004), FMRS
• Cambodia/Vietnam: Montagnard Asylum Rights Threatened, Human Rights Watch
• Cambodia: Protect Montagnard Refugees Fleeing Vietnam, Human Rights Watch
• Cambodia: Protect North Korean Asylum Seekers, Human Rights Watch
• Cambodia: UNHCR protests deportation, disappearance of asylum seekers, UN News Service
• Cash-strapped UNRWA is forced to cut back Palestinian programmes, UN News Service
• Central African Republic: UNHCR helps refugees repatriate from DR, UN News Service
• Central African Republic: UNHCR prepares temporary site for people fleeing violence, UN News Service
• Chad reassures UN it will not forcibly return 200,000 Sudanese refugees, HREA
• Chad: Over 5,000 internally displaced people receive aid, HREA
• Chadian villages attacked and burned, many dead and hundreds flee, HREA
• Child Protection and Displacement in Western Uganda, RLP Research
• China: Crackdown on "illegal immigrants" aims at North Korean refugees, ainews
• China: Protect rights of North Korean asylum seekers, owner-hr-headlines
• China: Risk of refoulement for North Korean asylum-seeker, omct
• China: UNHCR seeks access to 48 asylum seekers from North Korea, UN News Service
• Cicero Conference on European Migration and Refugee Policy (Rome, 13-14 November 2003), The Cicero Foundation
• Citing lack of evidence, Annan closes harassment case against UNHCR Ruud Lubbers, UN News Service
• Civilians flee fighting in central Afghanistan, UNHCR reports, owner-hr-headlines
• Colombia: UN expands effort to provide identification to internally displaced people, UN News Service
• Colombia: UNHCR and government sign agreement to strengthen refugee laws, owner-hr-headlines
• Colombia: UNHCR voices concern over rising tide of displaced people, UN News Service
• Comprehensive settlement needed to address root causes of displacement in Darfur and all Sudan, says UN expert, owner-hr-headlines
• Conference "Making sense of the Asylum and Immigration Act 2004" (London/Sheffield, 14/17 September 2004), frank
• Conference "Reproductive Health from Disaster to Development" (Brussels, 7-8 October 2003), Julia Matthews
• Conference 'An Unsettled Future? Forced Migration and Refugee Studies in the 21st Century' (Oxford, 7-8 December 2007), HREA