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[refugee-rights] UNHCR warns of worsening global displacement over next ten years

NEW YORK, United States, May 31 (UNHCR) – UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres warned on Thursday that factors causing mass population flight are growing and over the coming decade more people on the move will become refugees or displaced within their own country.

In comments marking the launch in New York of "The State of the World's Refugees: In Search of Solidarity," Guterres said displacement from conflict was becoming compounded by a combination of causes, including climate change, population growth, urbanization, food insecurity, water scarcity and resource competition.

All these factors are interacting with each other, increasing instability and conflict and forcing people to move. In a world that is becoming smaller and smaller, finding solutions, he said, would need determined international political will.

"The world is creating displacement faster than it is producing solutions," said Guterres. "And this means one thing only: more people trapped in exile over many years, unable to return home, to settle locally, or to move elsewhere. Global displacement is an inherently international problem and, as such, needs international solutions – and by this I mainly mean political solutions."

The new publication details these and other changes to the environment for the displaced since 2006, when the previous edition of the book was published. It presents a decidedly gloomier outlook: larger and more complex displacement challenges, increased threats to the safety of humanitarian workers, and states needing to strengthen their cooperation.

Notable among these changes is the emergence of internal displacement as a dominant challenge. Today, most of the world's 43 million people forced to flee their homes are not refugees but people who are displaced within their own countries, commonly referred to as internally displaced people, or IDPs. Globally, some 26 million people fall into this category, compared to around 15-16 million refugees and a further 1 million asylum-seekers.

For humanitarian workers, an ensuing implication is that helping the displaced is becoming more costly and dangerous. In countries such as Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen or Iraq, getting help to internally displaced populations means working in environments where access is difficult and conflict or criminality can present deadly risk.

"The State of the World's Refugees" looks at these problems and the state of cooperation among countries. "The space for humanitarian intervention is shrinking exactly when the need for humanitarian help is increasing. Pressures on the international protection system are clearly growing. In some industrialized countries in particular we see fortress mentalities that serve only to shift responsibility and compassion elsewhere. In a world where societies are becoming multi-cultural and multi-ethnic, it is essential to promote the values of tolerance and to fight the manifestation of xenophobia," said Guterres.

Several chapters in the book look at emerging challenges, including the growing numbers of urban refugees as well as displacement from climate change and natural disasters. The book notes that more people are displaced annually by natural disasters than by conflict. And it carries a warning about gaps in international protection when it comes to people who flee across borders to escape climate change impacts or natural disasters. They are not recognized as refugees under international law.

The book describes how UNHCR and its partners have developed innovative practices in response to evolving displacement challenges. However, it also elaborates the struggle UNHCR often faces in promoting state compliance with customary international law as it relates to the forcibly displaced, or the compliance of signatory states to their obligations under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol. It looks, too, at the problems of the world's estimated 12 million stateless people – without citizenship of any country, they are often trapped in legal and human rights limbo.

Eighty per cent of today's refugees live in the developing world. Greater international solidarity is needed to address this challenge, the book concludes. This encompasses providing more resettlement opportunities for refugees in the industrialized world, focusing development cooperation projects to foster sustainable voluntary return or local integration, and supporting host communities. A new deal in burden and responsibility sharing is needed in the whole cycle of refugee protection from prevention of conflict to solutions.

 

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[women-rights] Gender and Humanitarian Action e-learning course (30 May-10 July 2012)

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HREA will be offering a new e-learning course Gender and Humanitarian Action from 30 May-10 July 2012. Through this e-learning course staff members of (international) development agencies and NGOs will be introduced to the relevance of gender to humanitarian programming. "There is increasing recognition that humanitarian crises affect people differently and that there is a need to ensure that the differing needs of men, women, boys and girls are met within humanitarian response", says course instructor Aisling Swaine.

The course identifies why addressing gender matters in humanitarian response and will make participants familiar with key frameworks underpinning gender mainstreaming approaches. For further information and to apply online, please visit: www.hrea.org/gender-and-humanitarian-action

The Gender and Humanitarian Action course will be part of a new certificate programme "Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment" that HREA will launch in September. The certificate programme will consist of four e-learning courses (the Gender and Human Rights foundation course, a required specialised course "Gender Mainstreaming" or "Monitoring Women's Rights", and two elective courses such as "Gender and Peacebuilding"; "Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity"; and "Women in War and Armed Conflicts") and a five-day advocacy institute.

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[WCAR] India: UN members should act to end caste discrimination, urges Human Rights Watch

More Than 260 Million Affected Worldwide

(Geneva) May 14, 2012 – United Nations member states should make ending caste-based discrimination a priority when they review India’s human rights record at the UN Human Rights Council in late May 2012. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of India at the Human Rights Council is scheduled for May 24.

“United Nations member states should call for effective implementation of laws and policies to address caste-related human rights violations in India,” said Julie de Rivero, Geneva advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. “Numerous UN human rights bodies and civil society groups are demanding that the Indian government move from promises to action to improve the lives of people who have long endured horrific discrimination.”

Over 260 million people worldwide face extreme forms of discrimination, exploitation, and violence based on caste. According to government statistics, nearly 167 million Indians, or 16 percent of the population, belonged to so-called Scheduled Castes, who call themselves Dalits.

Dalits face widespread discrimination, which imposes enormous obstacles to the full attainment of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. They are segregated in housing, schools, and access to public services. They are denied access to land, forced to work in degrading conditions, and routinely abused by the police and upper-caste community members who enjoy the state’s protection. This entrenched discrimination that the government fails to address violates Dalit rights to education, health, housing, property, freedom of religion, free choice of employment, and equal treatment before the law.

Dalits also suffer routine violations of their right to life and security of person through state-sponsored or sanctioned acts of violence, including torture. Caste-motivated killings, rapes, and other abuses are a daily occurrence in India.

Human Rights Watch and IDSN urged UN member states to press the Indian government to take effective measures to protect the rights of Dalits, address widespread impunity for crimes committed against them, and ensure access to justice and basic services.

“It would be a great injustice to over 160 million Dalits in India if the UN review of India’s human rights record does not directly and comprehensively address serious concerns for the ongoing human rights violations against them,” de Rivero said.

Human Rights Watch and IDSN, whose members and associates include key Dalit organizations, have made a number of recommendations that should be raised at the review, including:

- Appropriate reforms to eliminate police abuses against Dalits and other marginalized communities;
- Vigorous implementation of laws and government policies to protect Dalits, and Dalit women in particular, from physical and sexual violence;
- Eradication of caste-based segregation in residential areas and schools, and in access to public services; and
- Effective eradication of exploitative labor arrangements and effective implementation of rehabilitation schemes for Dalit-bonded and child laborers, manual scavengers, and Dalit women forced into sex work.

“India all too often sweeps caste discrimination under the rug,” said Rikke Nöhrlind, coordinator of IDSN. “The upcoming UN review provides an opportunity for the Indian government to demonstrate a genuine commitment to address the full extent of this problem. UN member states have an obligation to demand that the rights of those discriminated against on the basis of caste not be ignored.”

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[women-rights] USA: House bill puts immigrant women at risk

Committee Vote Undermines Violence Against Women Act

(Washington) May 9, 2012 –The full US House of Representatives should reject a dangerous version of a bill to renew the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), Human Rights Watch said today. The bill would undermine the law and expose immigrant women and families to abuse, Human Rights Watch said. The House Judiciary Committee on May 8, 2012 approved a version that makes multiple changes to VAWA’s existing provisions addressing immigrant victims of domestic and sexual violence.

“Renewing the Violence Against Women Act should take us one step closer to becoming a society in which all women are safe from violence in their homes and on the streets,” said Meghan Rhoad, women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The bill approved by the House Judiciary Committee does the opposite. It rejects progress and rolls back protections that have been proven effective in helping women escape abuse.”

VAWA is the primary federal law providing legal protection and services to women, men, and children who are victims of domestic and sexual violence and stalking. It supports victims’ services such as rape crisis centers, temporary housing for domestic violence survivors, and programs to address violence against people with disabilities. Since it was first enacted in 1994, VAWA has included protections to address the particular challenges confronting immigrant victims of violence.

Congress has reauthorized VAWA twice and the law is now up for its third renewal.A bipartisan reauthorization bill (S. 1925) passed the Senate 68 to 31.

The version of the reauthorization bill approved by the House Judiciary Committee (H.R. 4970), was introduced by Representative Sandy Adams, Republican of Florida, and has 36 additional sponsors. Representative Gwen Moore, Democrat of Wisconsin, has introduced an alternative version of the VAWA renewal bill in the House with 75 co-sponsors. Representative Judy Biggert, Republican of Illinois, has proposed a third version, with one co-sponsor.

The Adams bill proposes sweeping changes to existing legal protections for immigrant victims of sexual and domestic violence, Human Rights Watch said. The bill would change the requirements for applications for immigration status for abused immigrant spouses of US citizens and permanent residents. These changes include imposing a stricter standard of proof than required for asylum applications and allowing government adjudicators to break confidentiality and interview an accused abuser about the spouse’s immigration application.

“VAWA has always been about ensuring that all victims of abuse, including immigrant victims, have somewhere to turn in the face of violence,” Rhoad said. “The Adams bill tells battered immigrant women that if they come forward, not only could they eventually be deported, but the government may put their lives at risk by informing their abuser that they are seeking help.”

The Adams bill further erodes protections for immigrant victims of violence by undermining the U visa program, Human Rights Watch said. The U visa is a temporary visa allowing an immigrant victim of a serious crime to stay in the US to assist law enforcement in investigating and prosecuting the crime. The Adams bill provides that crime victims awarded a U visa would no longer be eligible for permanent residency after the temporary visa expires. The prospect of eventual deportation would provide abusers with leverage to keep victims in violent relationships and inhibit victim cooperation with law enforcement, Human Rights Watch said.

In contrast, the bill passed by the Senate would maintain current protections for immigrant victims of abuse and make a limited number of additional U visas available. Other provisions from the Senate bill that are missing from the Adams bill would restore Native American tribal courts’ criminal jurisdiction over crimes of domestic violence or dating violence committed on reservations and tribal lands in cases in which the victim is a tribal member but the defendant is not. Currently, those cases fall outside the jurisdiction of both tribal and state courts and are rarely prosecuted by federal authorities.

In addition, the House Judiciary Committee rejected amendments that would explicitly provide protection for LGBT victims of sexual and domestic violence. While such violence affects LGBT victims at approximately the same rate as non-LGBT victims, discrimination can prevent them from accessing social services like domestic violence shelters or legal remedies like orders of protection.

“The Adams bill, with both its striking omissions and retrogressive provisions, constitutes an attack on the principle that protection from violence should be available to everyone,” Rhoad said. “It does a great disservice to VAWA’s 18-year history and a greater injustice to the victims of domestic and sexual violence whom it abandons.”

Human Rights Watch Press release

 

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