Au moment de la rédaction de cet article, l’autorité de fait continue de résider entre les mains de brigades armées qui contrôlent matériellement de nombreux sites, emplacements et installations. Par exemple, sur plus de 20 centres de détention qui existaient…
Héritant de près d’un demi-siècle de totalitarisme et d’isolement, la nouvelle Libye est en situation vulnérable, exposée au risque de perpétuer les infractions aux droits humains du régime sortant. Sous le règne de Kadhafi, les droits internationaux des migrants en…
Les multiples crises humanitaires simultanées de 2011-2012 au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord (MOAN) ont posé plusieurs défis au système humanitaire traditionnel en matière de difficulté d’accès, d’adaptation et de financement. Parallèlement, des acteurs « non traditionnels » ont eu un…
Dans les zones de conflit, les travailleurs migrants internationaux sont souvent plus vulnérables que la population locale, par exemple parce qu’ils ne parlent pas la même langue ou ne partagent pas la même culture, qu’ils connaissent mal la géographie du…
L’année dernière, la guerre civile en Libye a pris le monde par surprise. Personne n’y était préparé, et moins encore le pays voisin, la Tunisie qui se trouvait immergée dans sa propre révolution. Dès le 27 février, plus de 10 000…
People living with disabilities may be left behind during flight, or may not survive the journey; they are often not identified or counted in registration or data collection exercises; they are excluded from or unable to access mainstream assistance programmes and forgotten when specialised services are set up. They are often the most exposed to protection risks, including physical and sexual violence, exploitation, harassment and discrimination.
Current literature suggests that data on disabilities among refugee and IDP communities are often uncollected or unknown by the larger NGOs and UN agencies that are providing the bulk of relief services.[i] Standard procedures such as rapid assessments and registration processes often do not include collection of information specific to the circumstances, needs and presence of refugees and IDPs with disabilities.
During focus group discussions with women in IDP camps in Western Darfur – as part of a larger research project on vulnerability[i] – several women highlighted the increased difficulties persons with disabilities faced throughout the displacement process, beginning with their initial flight from their villages.
Undoubtedly, the context of Sri Lanka is a complex one. The country has suffered from sporadic civil war since 1983 and in 2008, at the time when the assessment was conducted, Sri Lanka had entered a new period of open conflict, after the abrogation of the ceasefire in early January of that year. The field assessment revealed a number of connections between conflict, displacement and disability.
The rebellion by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda left a terrible legacy of poverty, mutilation and sickness. It is estimated that 14% of the population suffer from a disability – significantly higher than in other parts of the country. Yet disability has been largely left out of reconstruction and in the villages people with disabilities are often shunned and isolated.