On a assisté ces dernières années à des efforts concertés des acteurs humanitaires pour inclure les personnes handicapées dans la programmation et la prestation de services. Toutefois, les personnes identifiées comme handicapées sont dans la majorité des cas des personnes…
De nombreuses femmes qui voyagent à travers la Grèce pour échapper au conflit et atteindre un lieu de sécurité sont déjà enceintes lorsqu’elles s’enfuient de chez elles ou le deviennent pendant leur voyage. Ce dernier peut prendre des mois et…
La violence qui a éclaté au Sri Lanka en 1983 et qui, à plusieurs occasions subséquentes, a déclenché un exode d’une dizaine d’années au cours duquel les Tamouls sri lankais ont cherché asile en Inde et dans d’autres pays en…
Since 2014, when refugees started arriving in Trieste, in north-east Italy on the Balkans route, every day between 30 and 100 people have camped in tents and cardboard boxes with makeshift beds inside the building known as Silos. This is…
At the height of the war between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army, close to 90% of the Acholi population was displaced and living in more than 150 forced encampments known as ‘protected villages’, many within a…
The UN-Habitat New Urban Agenda adopts human rights language, with repeated references to the principle of non-discrimination “regardless of their migration status”.[1] Unlike its predecessor Habitat II, the Agenda calls for inclusion of urban refugees within existing city structures; however,…
Successive French governments have responded to the large undocumented migrant population in the northern port of Calais by heightening security around the border and by controlling migrants’ access to shelter in the immediate vicinity of Calais. There has been a…
Refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in informal settlements or in rented housing are among those most at risk of eviction.[1] Traditional humanitarian shelter responses in urban areas have tended to favour ownership or collective centres, often lacking means…
Hosting of displaced families by local families might be spontaneous or planned, a first or an intermediate step in a multi-stage process of accommodating the displaced, and often starts before humanitarian actors arrive and lasts long after they leave. The…
The war in Ukraine has left 1.6 million people displaced inside the country and uprooted another 1.4 million who have fled to neighbouring countries since the conflict began in 2014.[1]This displacement began slowly and then exploded, with the first wave…