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Des principes Nansen à l’initiative Nansen

Les travailleurs humanitaires et les étudiants en droit international se souviennent avant tout de Fridtjof Nansen comme le premier Haut-Commissaire pour les Réfugiés, dont le «passeport Nansen» a apporté un certain degré de protection internationale à de nombreux réfugiés sans…

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Luxembourg-UNHCR-Skype synergies

Some 44% of UNHCR staff work in the field, often in remote, ‘hardship’ duty stations. They may be separated from their families and friends for months at a time, sometimes at very short notice, and have limited or occasionally no…

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Open access to scholarly research

Practitioners and policymakers have a wealth of research on forced migration at their disposal online: literature reviews, case studies, conference proceedings, working papers, government documents, policy briefs, unpublished reports, and much more. What they will not find in abundance – at least, not for free – are the final products of research, that is, articles published in scholarly journals. Price and permission barriers have effectively rendered research findings inaccessible to many of those who need them most.

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Engaging armed non-state actors in mechanisms for protection

In many instances, armed non-state actors (ANSAs) play a significant role generating forced displacement around the world; they are also responsible for many abuses of human rights. On the whole, however, ANSAs have not been considered as being central to finding solutions for these problems. As non-state entities, they cannot participate in the creation of the international legal norms regulating these issues, nor can they become parties to international treaties – yet efforts to improve the protection of civilians during armed conflict cannot afford to ignore ANSAs.

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