Items tagged:
Refugees
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Kampala sets example for how cities can help refugees
On World Refugee Day Diane Archer looks at how one city in Africa is exploring ways to support its refugee and migrant population
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Getting Lebanon’s water flowing: using new SDG data in an urban crisis
Anna Walnycki explains how reliable, disaggregated data on water access – supported by the framework of the SDGs – could help tackle the challenges facing Lebanon's water sector
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Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities
People forced to leave their homes are often displaced for many years, and most end up in urban areas. So how can host cities become more resilient while managing such crises? A meeting last week shared learning from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, reports Diane Archer
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Refugee livelihoods in Ugandan cities: mind the gap between policy and practice
Uganda has one of the most open-door refugee policies in the world. But improving the lives of urban refugees on the ground requires government and community organisations to work together to put these policies into practice
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Critical theme: Conflict, climate and migration in Syria – did the media get it right?
Our October Critical Theme seminar was about how the media have been reporting on the connections between migration, climate change and the conflict in Syria. Keynote speaker Alex Randall, the programme manager at the Climate and Migration Coalition, an alliance of refugee, human rights, and migration rights organisations, argued that the story presented about the connection between climate change and the Syrian conflict has not always been accurate
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Responding to transit refugees in Croatia
How do local authorities and humanitarian agencies collaborate when refugees are in transit? An IIED-supported research project is looking at the transit refugee response in Croatia
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Revealing the hidden refugees in African cities
A growing number of refugees and displaced people are living in cities in East Africa and the Horn of Africa – but governments are slow to recognise and meet their needs
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Why urbanisation matters in responding to humanitarian crises
While the plight of Syrian refugees trying to get to Europe is grabbing attention, far more are living in cities and towns in the region. IIED hosted a recent workshop to look at how their needs can be best met
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In this war of words, no one is the victor
The Syrian crisis has been described as the worst humanitarian emergency since the Second World War. It is time to put aside the semantics of migrants versus refugees, and face up to the human suffering as a global community
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Climate refugees of the future
Bangladesh is calling for the rights of environmental refugees to be recognised as the country battles rising sea levels and chronic poverty
