| FMR 38 Language training in the Czech Republic |
Language skills are crucial for the integration of refugees into the local community. In the Czech Republic, all persons granted international protection have the legal right to language tuition but there are shortcomings in provision. |
Markéta Bačáková |
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| FMR 38 Nearly a refugee: thoughts from Cairo |
Turbulence in North Africa and the Middle East has forced many to flee their homes and countries. One woman in Cairo, on the brink of flight, considers her options. |
Shaden Khallaf |
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| FMR 38 'Identity unknown': migrant deaths at sea |
Political unrest in North Africa has led to a resurgence in irregular migration to Europe and an increase in migrant deaths at sea, yet there is still no framework for identifying those who die or recording their numbers. |
Stefanie Grant |
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| FMR 38 New technologies always an improvement? |
New technologies always an improvement? |
LIsbeth Pilegaard |
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| FMR 38 Sifting hype from reality |
Sifting hype from reality. |
Paul Currion |
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| FMR 38 Technology: bringing solutions or disruptions? |
The availability of information through new technologies is challenging existing power relations and current ways of working, and we may not be prepared for the consequences. |
Paul Currion |
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| FMR 38 Country of Origin Information: old problems, modern solutions |
The current multitude of sources of information paradoxically renders access to good quality Country of Origin Information for refugee status determination procedures quite cumbersome. |
Marco Formisano |
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| FMR 38 Sharing sensitive data on forced migrants |
Can a collaborative web-platform for sharing critical demographic information about displaced people improve delivery and response? |
Prisca Benelli, Alessandro Guarino, Jen Ziemke |
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| FMR 38 Technology and engineering to support work with refugees |
New partnerships are being forged to encourage young engineers to use their skills in the service of refugees. |
Stephanie Hunt, Geoffrey C Orsak |
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| FMR 38 The role of technology in family tracing in Kenya |
Capitalising on the spread of mobile phones and the internet, new digital tools can help refugees trace missing family members. Security of data is a vital aspect of any such tools. |
Lucy Kiama, Christopher Mikkelsen, Caroline Njeri, Mikkel Hansen |
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| FMR 38 Making online connections |
Internet-based technologies are changing the way refugees are able to remain connected to their origins while adjusting to life in a new country. |
Jennifer Flemming |
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| FMR 38 The networking Tibetan diaspora |
The networking Tibetan diaspora. |
Emma Tobin |
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| FMR 38 Satellite phones help rescue of refugees |
Satellite phones help rescue of refugees. |
Virginia Signorini |
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| FMR 38 Refugees enjoy freedom to surf in Uganda |
Refugees enjoy freedom to surf in Uganda. |
Angella Nabwowe-Kasule |
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| FMR 38 Android phones for mosquito net surveys |
Android phones for mosquito net surveys. |
Sarah Hoibak, Marian Schilperoord |
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| FMR 38 Community Technology Access project |
Community Technology Access project. |
Daniela Ionita |
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| FMR 38 Mobile phones used for public health surveillance in Darfur |
Mobile phones used for public health surveillance in Darfur. |
Kbede Deribe |
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| FMR 38 From the local community in Colombia into cyberspace |
From the local community in Colombia into cyberspace. |
Juan David Gómez-Quintero |
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| FMR 38 Disabled persons database after Pakistan floods |
Disabled persons database after Pakistan floods. |
Niaz Ullah Khan |
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| FMR 38 GBV data collection and sharing |
GBV data collection and sharing. |
Kristy Crabtree |
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| FMR 38 How displaced communities use technology to access financial services |
As drought forces hundreds of thousands of Somalis to flee to Kenya and Ethiopia or to displaced camps within Somali territories, providing financial services might not seem an immediate priority. |
Abdirashid Duale |
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| FMR 38 Online connection for remittances |
nternet cafés in refugee camps allow refugees to maintain and create networks for overseas remittances. For many displaced people, maintaining these ties is vital. |
Naohiko Omata |
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| FMR 38 What Ushahidi can do to track displacement |
Ushahidi is an interactive mapping tool for use in crisis situations, which humanitarian workers can use to help them target assistance. |
Galya Ruffer |
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| FMR 38 Phoning home |
Simply having access to technology does not resolve the problem of communication between displaced people and their families. |
Linda Leung |
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| FMR 38 Web-based monitoring in an insecure environment |
UNHCR has developed Project Tracking and IDP databases for its work in Iraq in order to facilitate its operations at a lower risk to all stakeholders and to improve financial accountability, oversight and transparency. |
Andrew Harper |
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| FMR 38 Remote visual evidence of displacement |
Geospatial technologies such as satellite imagery provide a means of 'reaching' a conflict zone when on-the-ground reporting may be too dangerous, a region too remote, or access denied. |
Susan Wolfinbarger, Jessica Wyndham |
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| FMR 38 Open access to scholarly research |
Forced migration authors hold the key to enabling free and unfettered access to the full text of research articles. |
Elisa Mason |
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| FMR 38 Luxembourg-UNHCR-Skype synergies |
A recent strategic partnership between UNHCR, the Government of Luxembourg and communications software provider Skype is keeping UNHCR staff in hardship locations in touch with their families and friends. |
Antoine Bertout, Marc de Bourcy, Mohammad Faisal |
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| FMR 38 Access to information - inclusive or exclusive? |
Do new technologies increase access to information and knowledge for all, or are they deepening a technological divide? |
Sandra Krause, Diana Quick |
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| FMR 38 Early warning of mass atrocity crimes |
The use of new technologies for early warning systems can help reduce people's vulnerability to mass violence. |
Phoebe Wynn-Pope |
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| FMR 38 Technology in aid of learning for isolated refugees |
The lack of higher education opportunities for refugees, many of whom flee before being able to complete their education, is a widely acknowledged problem. |
Petra Dankova, Clotilde Giner |
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| FMR 38 The only constant is change |
Advances in information and communications technology are offering new solutions to a range of operational challenges experienced in the field. Can the humanitarian community's providers of telecommunications services keep up with the pace of change? |
Mariko Hall |
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| FMR 38 Disaster Response 2.0 |
The traditional disaster response community is only now beginning to assimilate the vast changes that new technologies could bring for information management in their field. |
Jeffrey Villaveces |
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| FMR 38 Citizen initiatives in Haiti |
The 2010 earthquake in Haiti ushered in a new era for the role and power of technology and communication systems in disaster response, especially for how local responders used them. |
Imogen Wall |
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| FMR 38 Foreword |
Foreword to issue 37 of Forced Migration Review. |
T Alexander Aleinikoff |
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| FMR 36 The road from Kabul |
New UNHCR research investigates the motivations for and challenges associated with the migration of young Afghans to Europe. |
Lucia Cipullo, Jeff Crisp |
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| FMR 36 The pervertibility of refugee status |
The desire to categorise all those seeking refuge throws up continuing challenges to traditions of hospitality and to the realisation of migrants' rights. |
Ana Paula Penchaszadeh |
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| FMR 36 The Kampala Convention and protection from arbitrary displacement |
The Kampala Convention breaks new ground in elevating the right to be protected from arbitrary displacement to a binding legal norm. |
Maria Stavropoulou |
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| FMR 36 Safe and suitable return for women fleeing conflict in Liberia |
When women migrants return, they can face daunting challenges to re-integration but can also contribute to development and transforming societies. |
Victoria Ijeoma Nwogu |
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| FMR 36 The displaced also protest |
Displaced people in Colombia are resorting to mass demonstrations to persuade their government to assume its responsibilities towards them. |
Freddy A Guerrero, Estefanía Vanegas |
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| FMR 36 Rumour versus information |
Central to Iraqi refugees' efforts to resolve the question of their immediate future is their access to good information about resettlement and return. |
Adam Saltsman |
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| FMR 36 What hope for IDPs in a new Sudan? |
The most probable outcome of the 2011 referendum is that Southern Sudan secedes from the North, breaking Sudan into two independent nation states. |
Taghrid Hashim Ahmed |
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| FMR 36 Foundations for repatriation and peace in DRC |
Parties to the protracted Congolese conflict have long promoted fear of 'the other' and a thirst for revenge; these attitudes must be addressed if peace is to have a chance. |
Vanessa Noël Brown |
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| FMR 36 Of tripartites, peace and returns |
After international agreements covering the return of refugees to Equateur and North Kivu, the challenge is to create local structures that can make the agreements work. |
Steve Hege |
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| FMR 36 Return in the political context of North Kivu |
Durable returns of IDPs and refugees into some of the most densely populated areas in eastern DRC are never going to be a simple exercise. |
Fergus Thomas |
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| FMR 36 Refugee return and root causes of conflict |
Since independence, violent conflicts in eastern DRC have been linked to access to land, affirmation of ethnic identities and competition for political control. |
Maria Lange |
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| FMR 36 Training trainers in reproductive health |
The cascade training model has brought clinical training closer to the areas in DRC most in need of skilled staff to serve conflict-affected women experiencing complications in pregnancy and childbirth. |
Boubacar Toure, Hélène Harroff-Tavel, Sara Casey, Tegan Culler |
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| FMR 36 ICRC: careful analysis is the key |
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) combines its protection and assistance activities and focuses on 'priority zones' where armed actors are present. |
Alena Koscalova, Elena Lucchi, Sabine Kampmüller |
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| FMR 36 Innovation in cash-voucher programming |
Cash vouchers offer flexibility, enabling payment for school fees as well as for basic necessities. They also empower people who, in displacement, have been deprived of choice. |
Kokoévi Sossouvi |
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| FMR 36 The Data Centre for IDPs in North Kivu |
Effective provision of aid and protection for those displaced in eastern DRC requires reliable data which the new Data Centre in North Kivu is helping to provide. |
Laura Jacqueline Church |
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| FMR 36 Civil society and the displaced persons of Bandundu |
Local organisations in Bandundu province located in western DRC are struggling to meet the needs of displaced persons in the absence of government or international assistance. |
Pierre Sossou, Boanerges M’Paty, Fulgence Buzika |
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| FMR 36 DRC: a donor perspective |
Donor engagement in DRC is more important than ever but donors need to reassess their strategies. |
Seb Fouquet |
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| FMR 36 Too big to fail |
The UN integrated mission in DRC and the piloting of humanitarian reform there have been necessarily innovative in a challenging context. |
Ross Mountain |
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| FMR 36 Press-ganged children |
Addressing the fate of children who are recruited into armed conflicts is not as simple as demanding their exclusion from those conflicts. |
Axel Poullard |
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| FMR 36 Evictions from DRC's protected areas |
There is an increasing number of people who are being evicted from DRC's 'protected areas' both by the government and by international conservation organisations. |
Kai Schmidt-Soltau |
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| FMR 36 Not going home: displaced youth after war |
In preparing for a post conflict DRC, we should be more aware of young people's aspirations, the opportunities open to them, and the challenges they face in building a decent life. |
Timothy Raeymaekers |
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| FMR 36 Land, IDPs and mediation |
Unmanaged resettlement of IDPs in eastern DRC might threaten an already fragile security situation. |
Baptiste Raymond |
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| FMR 36 Land and property disputes impeding return and reintegration |
A survey conducted by UNHCR in 2009 in IDP camps in North Kivu shows that access to land is the second factor after security which prevents people from returning to their zone of origin. |
Oumar Sylla |
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| FMR 36 Preventing sexual violence |
While there has been more focus on assistance to survivors of sexual violence after they have been attacked, not enough resources or political attention are devoted to preventing these acts of violence from occurring in the first place. |
Melanie Teff, Camilla Campisi |
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| FMR 36 Protection from sexual violence in DRC |
While service provision for survivors of sexual violence is the top priority, protection for women and girls can also be improved in DRC. |
Sarah Mosely, Talita Cetinoglu, Marit Glad |
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| FMR 36 Beyond the silence: sexual violence in eastern DRC |
The sexual violence laws introduced in DRC in 2006 have had only limited impact. A much louder condemnation of rape and a far more proactive approach to prevention are urgently needed. |
Jessica Keralis |
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| FMR 36 Displacement trends in DRC |
Internal displacement has plagued the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for nearly 20 years. This article provides an overview of the scale and causes of displacement. |
Greta Zeender, Jacob Rothing |
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| FMR 36 The role of governance and research |
Forced migration is not new to DRC but its extent and its consequences are still shocking. Good governance and research must play a stronger role if life is to improve for the citizens of DRC. |
Bernard Mumpasi Lututala |
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| FMR 36 The dynamics of instability in eastern DRC |
The conflict in eastern Congo has been the most deadly one since the second World War, and its social consequences have been disastrous. Solutions to the conflict must look to the long term. |
Pierre Jacquemot |
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| FMR 36 A scandal that needs to end |
While the crisis in the Kivus has been a focus of action and advocacy by the international community for decades, further conflicts have been proliferating in all four corners of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). |
John Holmes |
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| FMR 35 Local integration of refugees in Brazil |
Local integration is a complex economic, political, social and cultural process. |
Julia Bertino Moreira, Rosana Baeninger |
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| FMR 35 Amnesty for clandestine refugees in Brazil |
The story of clandestine refugees in Brazil. |
Alex André Vargem |
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| FMR 35 Enhancing refugees' integration: new initiatives in Brazil |
Recent initiatives in Brazil have strengthened protection and enhanced integration opportunities for refugees. |
Liliana Lyra Jubilut |
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| FMR 35 Brazil and the spirit of Cartagena |
The Declaration of Cartagena is important as it includes elements that link the three threads of international protection, humanitarian law, human rights and the rights of refugees, in legislation, interpretation and operation. |
Luiz Paulo Teles Ferreira Barreto, Renato Zerbini Ribeiro Leão |
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| FMR 35 Protection in natural disasters |
Preparing for, responding to and recovering from natural disasters is as much about human rights as about delivery of relief items and logistics. |
Elizabeth Ferris |
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| FMR 35 Migration, mobility and solutions: an evolving perspective |
There is growing recognition that refugees' mobility is a positive asset that can contribute to their lasting protection. |
Katy Long, Jeff Crisp |
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| FMR 35 Responding to IDP reproductive health needs |
Despite the administrative, logistical, political and cultural challenges of working in Darfur, the Gereida Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care Centre has made significant progress in a short time. |
Shanon McNab, Isabella Atieno |
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| FMR 35 To return or stay? |
The views of Sri Lankan refugees in India challenge some of the assumptions inherent in promoting repatriation as the most desirable durable solution to protracted displacement. |
John Giammatteo |
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| FMR 35 Accountability to disaster affected populations |
The hardest aspect of accountability to disaster-affected persons seems to be managing the tensions between the timeliness and the quality of a response. |
Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response |
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| FMR 35 The case for a Conclusion |
Why support UNHCR's proposed ExCom Conclusion on Disability. |
Brendan Joyce |
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| FMR 35 In-house (dis)ability |
In May 2007 UNHCR established an internal working group to look at developing in-house policies for people with disabilities both for the benefit of people of concern to us and for staff members. |
Safak Pavey |
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| FMR 35 Social inclusion: a Pakistan case-study |
An inclusive approach to water and sanitation provision can facilitate good hygiene behaviour, improve self-reliance and reduce the prevalence of many preventable diseases. |
Munazza Gillani, Mohammad Bilal Chaudhry, Niazullah Khan |
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| FMR 35 Negotiating inclusion in Sri Lanka |
In providing effective assistance to displaced people with disabilities in Sri Lanka, partnerships and negotiating skills have proved essential. |
Valerie Scherrer, Roshan Mendis |
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| FMR 35 Disability in the UN cluster system |
The cluster system offers space for raising awareness among humanitarian actors and for putting disability on the agenda, but it impairs local and cross-cutting dynamics at field level. |
Adele Perry, Anne Héry |
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| FMR 35 Services and participation in Yemen |
Assessing the needs of refugees and asylum seekers with disabilities has traditionally been much neglected in refugee assistance programmes. |
Aisha M Saeed |
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| FMR 35 Education access for all |
Despite the challenges and barriers experienced by displaced learners with disabilities and the evident need for further human and financial resources, inclusive education in crisis contexts is possible. |
Helen Pinnock, Marian Hodgkin |
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| FMR 35 Brokering the culture gap |
Although refugees who enter the United States are encouraged to integrate into American life, many struggle to navigate the country's service delivery system, especially those with disabilities. |
Rooshey Hasnain |
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| FMR 35 Resettlement for disabled refugees |
Over the past few decades there have been some positive (albeit inconsistent) changes in US refugee admissions policy as well as in UNHCR's guidelines for resettlement, especially relating to refugees with disabilities. |
Mansha Mirza |
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| FMR 35 Reception of asylum seekers with disabilities in Europe |
With regard to the reception of asylum seekers in the European Union, provisions for the protection of people with disabilities are found in a wide range of regulatory sources. |
Ana Beduschi-Orti |
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| FMR 35 Failing London's disabled refugees |
Small, refugee led community organisations are disproportionately taking the strain for supporting London's disabled asylum seekers and refugees. |
Neil Amas, Jacob Lagnado |
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| FMR 35 Early engagement |
New Zealand welcomes refugees with disabilities, but this article investigates how well they are supported after arrival. |
Celia Brandon, Candy Smith |
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| FMR 35 New Zealand: beyond the quota |
The New Zealand government accepts refugees with disabilities and has established structures and partnerships to facilitate their participation in society. |
Rowan Saker |
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| FMR 35 The Convention: on paper and in practice |
While various international instruments are in place to protect the rights of persons with disabilities, knowledge of these at a grassroots level is limited. |
Cassandra Phillips, Steve Estey, Mary Ennis |
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| FMR 35 Displacement limbo in Sierra Leone |
When does war end and peace begin? When a peace accord is signed? When the intervention forces leave and those responsible are put on trial? Or when civilians can return home and resume their livelihoods? |
Sam Duerden |
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| FMR 35 Kakuma's first raffle |
In the face of continuing funding cuts to programmes, residents and staff in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya have had to find new ways to support persons with disabilities. |
Menbere Dawit with the Kakuma Syndicate Disabled Group |
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| FMR 35 Shifting community views: reducing stigma in Dadaab |
Among the greatest protection risks facing refugees with disabilities in Dadaab are discrimination and stigmatisation. |
Devon Cone |
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| FMR 35 Intersection of disability and HIV/AIDS |
Intersection of disability and HIV/AIDS. |
Myroslava Tataryn |
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| FMR 35 More than a ramp |
People with disability live in families and live in communities. We cannot be separated from society. (Simon Ong'om, Chairperson of the Gulu Disabled Persons Union). |
Gulu Disabled Persons Union |
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| FMR 35 Perception and protection in Sri Lanka |
An assessment conducted in Sri Lanka in 2008 revealed that displaced people with disabilities were extremely vulnerable to protection incidents and their vulnerability was increased by their lack of voice. |
Francesca Bombi |
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| FMR 35 Vulnerability and disability in Darfur |
The difficulties faced by persons with disabilities throughout the displacement process contribute to their increased vulnerability. |
Maria Kett, Jean-Francois Trani |
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| FMR 35 Addressing the data challenge |
The humanitarian relief community needs to collect disability-specific data through rapid needs assessments, registration processes, accessing local knowledge and disability monitoring. |
Kathleen B Simmons |
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| FMR 35 Second African Decade of Persons with Disabilities |
Forced Displacement and African Persons with Disabilities. |
Aïda Sarr, Kudakwashe Dube |
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| FMR 35 Disability in displacement |
People with disabilities face many additional difficulties before, during and after displacement but provision of appropriate assistance and protection for all is feasible. |
Aleema Shivji |
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| FMR 35 A shared vision |
Comments from United Nations Special Rapporteur on Disability. |
Shuaib Chalklen |
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| FMR 35 From the Editors |
Disability and displacement. |
Editors |
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