Administrative challenges and IDPs in Odisha: experience from Subernarekha irrigation project, India
Madhulika Sahoo Senior Research Fellow, Anthropological Survey of India, Nagpur and former Refugee studies graduate of University of East London madhulika.sahoo@hotmail.co.uk . The morning was quite, birds were chirping on the trees Sun was bright, stream water trying to break the paths to hose the dry roots Women getting ready to go for the daily […]
Why is the Destruction of Women, as Women, a Reality, But Absent in International law?
Kali Goldstone Human Rights/Refugee Lawyer e-mail: omkali78@gmail.com . Abstract: Gender persecution is “aggression against and exploitation of women, because [they] are women, systemically and systematically.” Even though women can be abused similarly to the ways in which men are abused, women are also violated in specific ways in which men are not. Women are routinely violated every […]
Educar la empatía para construir una humanidad solidaria
Juan Carlos Melero Trabaja para la Fundación EDEX e-mail: prevencion@edex.es web: www.edex.es . [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/6178037″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”200″ iframe=”true” /] . Resumen Desde su origen en África, la historia de la humanidad es la historia de los desplazamientos de personas y grupos por todo el mundo. Movimientos que han dado lugar a la diversidad humana […]
Building Resilience Through the Child-to-Child Approach
Celine Woznica Director of Child-to-Child/Americas, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health e-mail: nanamericas@gmail.com web: www.child-to-child.org . Abstract: Resilience in children is the ability to recover from traumatic experiences and develop the skills to overcome future challenges. In dealing with adversities, children draw from personal strengths often divided into external (I have), internal (I am), […]
Refugiados do clima: reflexões para o Dia Internacional dos Refugiados
Valdir Lamim-Guedes Biólogo e Mestre em Ecologia pela Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto e-mail: dirguedes@yahoo.com.br web: http://naraiz.wordpress.com/ . Resumo: Refugiado é a pessoa que por motivos de raça, religião, nacionalidade, grupo social ou opiniões políticas está fora de seu país e não pode retornar. Refugiados climáticos são pessoas que se fogem devido às condições ambientais. […]
Like a Rollercoaster. Detention Centres for Foreigners in Poland
Gawel Walczak Project Coordinator at Polish Migration Forum Foundation gawelwalczak@gmail.com . Abstract: In October 2012 a group of foreigners located in detention centres in Poland started a hunger strike. Many of them were asylum seekers who awaited decisions regarding their status behind the bars and barbed wire. They demanded better conditions of staying in those places. […]
To Support Democratic Transformation and Good Governance Interventions
Huwayda Mohamed Ibrahim Projects designer and developer at Consultancy office at Sudan huwayda1@hotmail.com . The signed peace agreement for Darfur is conducive environment for participation of all segments of the community to build the peace process which intend need strengthening of civil society and to empower women to establish peace forums, rebuild confidence, and give […]
20 de junio: Día Internacional del Refugiado
Monica di Marco Responsable de Sensibilización y Movilización social aapss@saharasevilla.org website: http://www.saharasevilla.org/ . Un año más, llegan a Sevilla los niños y niñas saharauis, desde los campamentos de Tinduf (Argelia), donde nacieron refugiados y en el exilio, porque sus padres tuvieron que escapar de su país, el Sahara Occidental, ocupado por Marruecos por la fuerza y […]
Brief on UDYAMA
Pradeep Mohapatra Secretary & Team Leader at UDYAMA (India) e-mail: udyama.pradeep@gmail.com website: http://www.udyama.org/ . Since last one and half decades, UDYAMA has demonstrated few evidence based initiatives working directly with community and engaging partner NGOs in coastal, tribal areas and carved out good learning on community resilience process. Learning–Linking- Livelihoods is the core areas of UDYAMA […]
Interview with “Mama” Hawa Aden Mohamed, 2012 Nansen Refugee Award
Resource: 2012 UNHCR/F.Juez Javier Collado Ruano: Dear readers, it is a big pleasure present Ms. “Mama” Hawa Aden Mohamed: a Somali humanitarian, educator and women´s rights advocate which won the 2012 Nansen Refugee Award. Ms. “Mama” Hawa is a big activist which solidarity showed us many valuable lessons in peacebuilding activism. السلام عليكم(Salaam Aleikum) Ms. “Mama” Hawa, thank you very much for accepting our invitation in […]
