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Le potentiel de perversion du statut de réfugié

Il y a deux types de problèmes associés avec les droits internationaux des réfugiés : des problèmes ‘formels’ associés à la définition des concepts légaux relatifs au statut, au refuge et à l’asile des réfugiés ; et des problèmes ‘pratiques’ liés à la mise en œuvre de ces droits par les états nations.

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La route de Kaboul

Un ancien proverbe afghan fournit le titre d’une nouvelle étude du HCR qui examine les expériences d’enfants afghans non accompagnés qui ont fait le long voyage par voie terrestre jusqu’à l’Europe.

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‘Catch me if you can!’ The Lord’s Resistance Army

The Lord’s Resistance Army’s increasingly violent attacks against civilians in Uganda from the 1990s and well into the 2000s – through large-scale and systematic abductions, massacres, maiming and military use of children – led to an unprecedented humanitarian crisis characterised by massive population displacement.

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Dilemmas of Burma in transition

Throughout decades of brutal conflict, which have seen thousands of villages destroyed and millions of people displaced, Burma’s ruling regime has made no effort to provide support for affected civilians. As a result, Burma’s ethnic non-state armed groups (NSAGs) – thought to hold territory covering a quarter of the country’s landmass – play a crucial role as protectors and providers of humanitarian aid.

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The economic relationship of armed groups with displaced populations

Practically all armed groups are heavily dependent on external support. Armed groups primarily seek support from both other states and from the diasporas, displaced populations and other armed groups, in order to prevent the burden of  the war effort from falling entirely on the civil population they claim to protect, a situation that has its own political costs. States too need external support to deal with outbreaks of instability and violence; during the Cold War this was normal and it still continues today in most current armed conflicts.

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