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.
L’invisibilité des populations mobiles vulnérables
L’Objectif 6 du millénaire pour le développement (OMD 6) (1) cherche à améliorer l’accès aux services de prévention du VIH et au soutien, aux soins et au traitement du sida, ainsi qu’à freiner et à inverser la contamination de l’épidémie du VIH d’ici 2015.
Migration forcée et VIH/SIDA en Asie : quelques observations
Une discussion approfondie sur comment et pourquoi la migration forcée est susceptible d’augmenter les risques de transmission du VIH dans la région exigerait l’examen d’une myriade de dynamiques sociales, culturelles, économiques et même physiologiques.
‘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.
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.
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.