Avant-propos
Des enfilades de huttes qui s’alignent sur un terrain desséché et poussiéreux. Des entrepôts sous tentes, contenant de la nourriture, des couvertures, du matériel pour construire des abris et des outils. Un marché de fortune où l’on vend des denrées comme des piles, des seaux, du savon et des vêtements d’occasion. Et des pompes à main autour desquelles se pressent des masses de gens (des femmes pour la plupart) qui attendent pour collecter la provision d’eau de la famille.
Initiatives citoyennes en Haïti
Etablir un dialogue avec des groupes armés
Certains déplacements forcés peuvent être légaux en vertu du Droit international humanitaire (DIH) s’ils permettent d’assurer la sécurité d’une communauté ou s’ils sont motivés par des raisons militaires impératives. Néanmoins, dans la plupart des cas les populations abandonnent leurs maisons parce que l’une ou les deux parties au conflit ont violé le DIH.
A scandal that needs to end
As of 31 July 2010, an estimated 1.9 million people were internally displaced in North and South Kivu, Orientale, Katanga and Equateur provinces of DRC. And it should not be forgotten that IDPs represent just a fraction of the people in need in DRC. The situation of returnees, host families and large numbers of populations in non-conflict affected areas is often dire.
The Kivus
Talking to armed groups
Forced displacement can be lawful under international humanitarian law (IHL) if it makes a community safer or if imperative military reasons require it. However, in most cases people leave their homes because one or both sides to a conflict has been violating IHL. When a community experiences or fears murder, rape, kidnapping, destruction of their homes or looting, flight is a natural reaction.
HIV/AIDS, security and conflict: What do we know? Where do we go from here?
The articles in this collection together with the findings from the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative (ASCI) consolidate a growing body of social science, public health, policy and operational research that challenges earlier assumptions about the interactive effects of HIV/AIDS and insecurity. Contributing authors draw attention to the social factors associated with forced displacement and migration and their central role in shaping HIV exposure risks.
From the Editors
The striking fact that for the first time in human history there are now more people living in towns and cities than outside them is not in itself a reason for FMR to be covering urban displacement. Behind that fact,…
From the Editors
Some two-thirds of displaced people in the world today are not in classic emergency situations but are trapped in protracted displacement – situations characterised by long periods of exile and separation from home. When people remain displaced for a long…
From the Editors
A ‘stateless person’ is someone who is not recognised as a national by any state. They therefore have no nationality or citizenship (terms used interchangeably in this issue) and are unprotected by national legislation, leaving them vulnerable in ways that…