Ce qui pourrait apparaître comme une violence généralisée ou indiscriminée en Syrie est souvent, en réalité, une violence ciblant des populations particulières en raison de leurs prétendues opinions politiques, c’est-à-dire de leur soutien supposé pour l’une des parties au conflit.…
L’étendue géographique du déplacement causé par la crise syrienne et sa nature prolongée aggravent encore son ampleur. Des Syriens ont été forcés de fuir vers les pays voisins comme le Liban, la Jordanie, l’Iraq et la Turquie, alors que d’autres…
Plus de 40 % de la population actuelle de Jordanie est originaire d’un pays étranger ; le pays compte deux millions de palestiniens, jusqu’à 1,3 million de Syriens et 29 000 Irakiens. Afin de protéger son identité nationale dans de telles circonstances,…
L’attention portée par les acteurs humanitaires au mariage des enfants parmi la population syrienne déplacée est un exemple d’intervention n’ayant pas su faire participer correctement les bénéficiaires. Les données semblent indiquer que la pratique du mariage des enfants n’a pas…
“I failed but still I want to go abroad. I need to get [to] my destination because here in Afghanistan there is no work or education.” (Amini, aged 17, Nangarhar) Many Afghan minors who previously left Afghanistan for the West…
It is still unclear at the time of writing whether there will be an international military presence after 2014, and the diplomatic atmosphere has long been marked by uncertainty and strained relations between the government and troop-contributing nations. These are,…
Thousands of families from Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan and a number of other provinces in southern Afghanistan have reportedly recently returned to their home districts from the cities where they had sought refuge for months and even years. However, the conditions…
A group of people in eastern Afghanistan – known to the authorities and others as Bangriwala or Vangawala in this area – have reported recently been forcibly relocated because of their lack of identity documents. These people lead a nomadic…
On 25 November 2013, the Government of Afghanistan approved a National IDP Policy[1] which had been nearly two years in the making. In the context of some 500,000 Afghans internally displaced as a result of conflict, with perhaps a further…
Afghan refugees long constituted the world’s largest refugee population and one of the most protracted situations in the world. They have also been the subject of the largest repatriation ever undertaken – which is still ongoing. Since 2002 more than…