Author: Stephanie Anna Motz
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004427309
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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This is the first comprehensive study on the refugee definition for persons with disabilities. It proposes a disability-specific approach to refugee status analysing the different elements of the refugee definition in light of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Author: Mary Crock
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1786435446
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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This ground-breaking book focuses on the ‘forgotten refugees’, detailing people with disabilities who have crossed borders in search of protection from disaster or human conflict. The authors explore the intersection between one of the oldest international human rights treaties, the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, with one of the newest: the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Drawing on fieldwork in six countries hosting refugees in a variety of contexts – Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Uganda, Jordan and Turkey – the book examines how the CRPD is (or should) be changing the way that governments and aid agencies engage with and accommodate persons with disabilities in situations of displacement. The timeliness of the book is underscored by the adoption in mid-2016 of the UN Charter on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action adopted at the World Humanitarian Summit.
Author: Cathryn Costello
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198848633
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1337
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This Handbook draws together leading and emerging scholars to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of international refugee law. This book provides an account as well as a critique of the status quo, setting the agenda for future research in the field.
Author: Nujeen Mustafa
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062821253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, now tells the inspiring true story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose harrowing journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in a wheelchair is a breathtaking tale of fortitude, grit, and hope that lends a face to the greatest humanitarian issue of our time, the Syrian refugee crisis. For millions around the globe, sixteen-year-old Nujeen Mustafa embodies the best of the human spirit. Confined to a wheelchair because of her cerebral palsy and denied formal schooling in Syria because of her illness, Nujeen taught herself English by watching American soap operas. When her small town became the epicenter of the brutal fight between ISIS militants and US-backed Kurdish troops in 2014, she and her family were forced to flee. Despite her physical limitations, Nujeen embarked on the arduous trek to safety and a new life. The grueling sixteen-month odyssey by foot, boat, and bus took her across Turkey and the Mediterranean to Greece, through Macedonia to Serbia and Hungary, and finally, to Germany. Yet, in spite of the tremendous physical hardship she endured, Nujeen's extraordinary optimism never wavered. Refusing to give in to despair or see herself as a passive victim, she kept her head high. As she told a BBC reporter, "You should fight to get what you want in this world." Nujeen's positivity and resolve infuses this unforgettable story of one young woman determined to make a better life for herself. Told by acclaimed British foreign correspondent Christina Lamb, Nujeen is a unique and powerful memoir that gives voice to the Syrian refugee crisis, helping us to understand that the world must change—and offering the inspiration to make that change reality.
Author: Martin Geiger
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030329763
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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In 2016, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) became part of the United Nations. With 173 member states and more than 400 field offices, the IOM—the new ‘UN migration agency’—plays a key role in migration governance. The contributors in this volume provide an in-depth and comprehensive insight into the IOM, its transformation, current structure and projects, as well as its capacity, self-understanding and political agenda.
Author: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199281300
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 847
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The situation of refugees is one of the most pressing and urgent problems facing the international community and refugee law has grown in recent years to a subject of global importance. In this long-awaited third edition each chapter has been thoroughly revised and updated and every issue, old and new, has received fresh analysis.
Author: Bruce Burson
Publisher: International Refugee Law
ISBN: 9789004288584
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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La 4e de couverture indique : "Does human rights law help us to define who qualifies as a refugee? If so, then how? These deceptively simple questions sit at the heart of an intense contemporary debate over whether, or how, interpretation of the refugee definition in the Refugee Convention should take account of human rights law. In Human Rights and the Refugee Definition, Burson and Cantor bring a fine-grained comparative perspective to this debate. For the first time, they collect together in one edited volume over a dozen new studies by leading scholars and practitioners that explore in detail how these legal dynamics play out in a range of national and international jurisdictions and in relation to particular thematic challenges in refugee law."
Author: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
ISBN: 0199652430
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 785
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"This Handbook critically traces the birth and development of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, and vividly illustrates the vibrant and engaging debates that characterize this rapidly expanding field of research and practice. The contributions highlight the key challenges faced by academics and practitioners working with and for forcibly displaced populations around the world, as well as identifying new directions for research in the field. Since emerging as a distinct field of study in the early 1980s, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being of concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy analysts to become a global field with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement, either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer interdisciplinary programmes across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences". --Publisher.
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789241565004
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"The world's institutions have increasingly become dumping grounds for children with disabilities, including psychosocial disabilities. An abundance of evidence shows that these settings cause extensive physical and psychological harm. Low numbers of staff, lack of training, poor quality of care, harmful treatment practices, violence, abuse and overall neglect preclude any positive outcomes for children and as a result, many remain in institutional care for the rest of their lives, and many others die prematurely. This report underscores the urgent need for countries to move from institution-based care to community-based care. It provides guidance, based on promising practices from around the globe, on the key services and supports that need to be in place to ensure that children are able to live and thrive in the community. A firm commitment to redirecting investments toward community alternatives is critical, if we are to end these institutional abuses, and provide children with the best possible start at life."-- Back cover.
Author: United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1508
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