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Innovative Solutions to Refugee Crises Needed

The United Nations refugee agency is calling on staff, partners and refugees themselves to suggest innovative solutions to the challenges faced by displaced people.

Africa: UN Calls for Innovations to Aid Its Work With Refugees

SciDev.Net, 7 September 2013

The UN's refugee agency hopes to use crowdsourced innovations to improve how it works with refugees. Read more »

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A UN staff member with Congolese refugees in Uganda.

Africa: Alternatives to Immigration Detention Prove Cheaper, More Humane

UNIRIN, 30 August 2013

Countries around the world are increasingly responding to influxes of irregular migrants and asylum seekers by simply locking them up. States cite national security concerns and… Read more »
Africa: Refugee Shelter for the Future

UNIRIN, 5 August 2013

Tents have long played an essential role in the emergency phase of humanitarian responses to refugee influxes. They are relatively light and cheap, and they can be stockpiled,… Read more »
Africa: HIV and Emergencies - the Data Quandary

UNIRIN, 7 August 2013

More information about groups vulnerable to HIV infection during emergencies - including those labelled "most at-risk populations" (MARPs) - is needed to improve humanitarian HIV… Read more »
Somalia: Doubts Arise Over Repatriating Refugees

UNIRIN, 28 June 2013

As plans to facilitate the return of hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees from neighbouring Kenya gather steam, serious doubts persist about whether conditions in Somalia are… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Beyond Emergency Needs in DRC

UNIRIN, 30 May 2013

Humanitarian response in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) should broaden beyond emergency needs to encompass underlying dynamics of conflict, according to a report by the… Read more »
Africa: The Plight of LGBTI Asylum Seekers, Refugees

UNIRIN, 7 May 2013

Refugees and asylum seekers face a host of challenges when crossing borders, but the obstacles are particularly pronounced for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex… Read more »
South Africa: Cape Town's Asylum Seekers Struggle to Get Documented

UNIRIN, 16 May 2013

When Jean Baptiste*, a medical student from Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), arrived in South Africa in September 2012, he headed straight for Cape Town,… Read more »

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Alternatives to Detention for Illegal Migrants

There is little evidence that threats of detention discourage illegal migrants from their perilous journeys but the physical and psychological scars of incarceration are well ... Read more »
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