Search Results For “ UNHCR ” 9 articles

This analysis counters the assumption that processes of identification within intellectual discourses of forced displacement have created a space for the empowerment of women*. I argue that they have in fact contributed to the perpetuated exploitation of non-cisgender refugees who identify as wo..

The UNHCR and UN-Habitat have recently launched a new report assessing the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon by studying issues of housing, land and property. Entitled Housing, Land and Property Issues in Lebanon: Implications of the Syrian Refugee Crisis, the report is authored by lawye..

The crowd in front of the police station is chatting in clusters in the brutal summer heat. Refugee applicants occasionally stop their conversation to say hello to friends and acquaintances who arrive on foot or on bicycles. It is Wednesday, the signature day (rooz-e emzaa..

[Photos by Brian Sokol/UNHCR, text by UNHCR.]

What would you bring with you if you had to flee your home and escape to another country? More than 1 million Syrians have been forced to ponder this question before making the dangerous flight to neighboring Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, I..

[The following report was issued by Refugees International on 5 December 2012.] 

Syrian Refugees: Reliance on Camps Create..

[The following report was published by Tilburg University and Europe External Policy Advisors on 26 September 2012.]

Human Trafficking in the Sinai: Refugees Betwee..

[The following press release and guidelines were issued by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees on 21 September 2012.]

Press Release

The UN refugee agency on Friday issued new guidelines on t..

As the violence and conflict intensifies in Syria, it is important to remember the growing movement of displaced persons and refugees. The recent experiences of Iraqis, Libyans, and Palestinians offer lessons on how to address the needs of internally displaced pers..

In September 2011, the month that Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud ‘Abbas, submitted Palestine’s statehood bid at the United Nations (UN), Qusai Abdul-Raouf of the Lebanon-based Palestinian Human Rights Foundation was undertaking the task of documenting the increasing number of attacks a..