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5 days ago · The Rethinking Refuge platform from the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre offers short, research-based articles aimed at rethinking refugee issues from various angles, including politics, international relations, normative political theory, law, history, and anthropology.
5 days ago · Individually as well as collectively, women take action to cope with, overcome, or at times purposefully avoid vulnerabilities – as explicit strategies and as a part of their daily lives. Examples of everyday practices against violence are diverse.
3 days ago · The UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees was adopted on July 28, 1951. The UNHCR has since been working in the interests of refugees around the world. On 17 December, 2018, the UNGA approved the Global Compact on Refugees. It has four primary objectives: easing pressure on host countries, enhancing refugee self-reliance, expanding ...
3 days ago · The United States Congress passed the 1980 Refugee Act that adopted the United Nations’ definition of “refugee” as a person who is outside of his or her country and is unable or unwilling to return to it “owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.”
1 day ago · By USCRI July 25, 2024. On July 25, USCRI hosted a webinar to discuss the role of refugee-led organizations in the Uganda refugee response. The webinar featured Refugee Led Organization Network of Uganda’s Jerry Lukendo Mbokani, Tomorrow Vijana’s Kubana Alexis, Youth Social Advocacy Team’s John Jal Dak, and Hodari Foundation’s Janvier ...
4 days ago · The cities of refuge ( Hebrew: ערי המקלט ‘ārê ha-miqlāṭ) were six Levitical towns in the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah in which the perpetrators of accidental manslaughter could claim the right of asylum. Maimonides, invoking talmudic literature, expands the city of refuge count to all 48 Levitical cities. [1]
1 day ago · In 2016, when the first International Olympic Committee (IOC) Refugee Olympic Team geared up to take the stage in Rio de Janeiro, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) counted 60 million forcibly displaced people worldwide. As the 2024 Refugee Olympic Team sets their eyes on Paris, that number has nearly doubled.
