We founded the Syrian and Greek Youth Forum (SGYF) in 2018 to support community-building activities among refugees, asylum seekers, second-generation Syrians and Greek nationals. Our long-term goal is to help these and other communities become fully active citizens. Athens is…
Between January 2015 and December 2019 more than 82,000 refugees arrived in Hamburg in northern Germany, a city of 1.77 million people. Refugees in Germany are assigned to the country’s 16 federal states according to a distribution system based on…
A review was recently conducted of good practice by humanitarian aid agencies (local and international non-governmental organisations, UN agencies, and members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement) in contexts of conflict, violence, displacement and natural disasters, including…
There is a persistent gap in the availability of accurate estimates of the scale of urban displacement. Even when such information is locally available, it is generally insufficient to inform prevention, response and durable solutions. Other types of data on…
The turn of a decade is always a good opportunity to take a step back and assess some of the deeper trends driving our ever-shortening news cycles. As we look back over the last ten years, surely one of the…
Dear participants and Dr Deng, The Norwegian Refugee Council had the pleasure of being invited by NTNU to co-organise this seminar, a task we accepted with great satisfaction. For many years NRC has made efforts to raise awareness of internal…
It is a great pleasure to be in Trondheim to address such an impressive gathering of scholars, academics, students and policy makers focusing on an issue that has preoccupied me since I was appointed as the Representative of the UN…
The outcome was the launch of the online Global IDP Database (www.idpproject.org) in December 1999. The backbone of the database has been a set of comprehensive country profiles which provide users with frequently updated information and direct access to source…
Because the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement is a non-binding instrument –deriving legitimacy from cross-referencing other international instruments within the field of human rights, humanitarian law and refugee law – there is a need to understand the value of these…
To what extent are displaced Guatemalans able to access justice, pursue the right to remedy and receive legal aid and translation facilities to do so. Is the Guatemalan legal system responsive or repressive to IDPs? Does it seek to emancipate…