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06/18/2013More than a quarter of Syria’s population – 5.75 million people – have been displaced in the country’s two-year civil war. Media coverage, UN debates, and diplomatic interventions have focused largely on the implications of the refugee crisis for the stability of neighboring countries – particularly Jordan and Lebanon, which are now each sheltering approximately 475,000 Syrians. Less attention has been paid to what the UN General Assembly recently called the “very dire situation” of the more than 4.25 million Syrians uprooted within their own country.
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06/18/2013
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06/18/2013
The Sahel remains a sparsely populated region, and desiccated savannah dominates the landscape – stretching for miles into the distance. But look a bit closer, and you will see that the Sahel is really one big, busy highway - traversed not by humans, but by their massive herds of livestock. For untold generations, people here have consumed their milk and meat or sold it in nearby markets. Now however, as climate change has begun to hit the Sahel, herds are thinning out and their owners are suffering.
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06/18/2013
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06/17/2013
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06/17/2013In 2009/10, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolutions 1888 and 1960 establishing Women’s Protection Advisors (WPAs). These officials are tasked with building capacity to address conflict-related sexual violence UN within peacekeeping missions and reporting incidents for the monitoring and reporting arrangements as a basis for Security Council action against perpetrators. Today, six WPAs are assigned to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. The rollout of WPAs in that country has been marked by recruitment delays and training gaps which have ultimately led to poor practice in data collection, endangering sexual violence survivors. While Refugees International welcomes the initiative to address conflict-related sexual violence within peacekeeping missions, immediate measures must be taken to ensure that WPAs use an approach centered on the wellbeing of the survivor, following internationally recognized guidelines on safe and ethical researching, documenting, and monitoring of sexual violence in emergencies.
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06/14/2013Nila is tired. Two weeks ago, she arrived in Yida camp, South Sudan, with her three young children in search of safety and food. But unlike those that fled before her, when Nila arrived in Yida she was told her family would not be given any food.
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06/12/2013
In the United States, the green card signifies permanent resident status. The Diversity Visa Program, known as "the green card lottery," gives 50,000 people from across the world the chance to relocate to the U.S. It was hard to believe when, on May 2, 2013, I realized that I had been selected...
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06/10/2013
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06/10/2013Africa’s Sahel region is home to some of the world’s poorest and least developed countries. But in recent years, more erratic weather coupled with political unrest, has had grave impacts on Sahelian populations. Instability brought on by conflict and growing food insecurity has forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. And these impacts are only likely to increase in the decades to come as millions of vulnerable, agriculture-dependent families across the region face increased climate variability.
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06/07/2013
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06/07/2013Many I-Kiribati recognize that despite both their desire to stay on their sacred land and their efforts to minimize the impact of climate change on their community, relocation to another country may be inevitable.
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06/06/2013
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06/05/2013The I-Kiribati (as the citizens of Kiribati are known) are a strong and proud people, and they are doing what they can to mitigate some of the effects of climate change.
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06/04/2013
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06/04/2013It is not just exposure to climate change-related phenomena that makes a country vulnerable to harm. Rather, it is the ability of its people and government to prepare for a disaster, and effectively respond once it hits, that determines overall vulnerability.
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06/03/2013
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06/03/2013Samuel totters on uneven footing in the doorway of the thatch hut and gapes, open-mouthed, at the strangers in his house. He’s just a year old and has lived his entire life here in Yida.
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