UNHCR: Urban Displacement Feature

As part of its ongoing effort to highlight the challenge of urban displacement, UNHCR has been running a series of stories on this issue, a list of which can be found below.

• 27 January 2010: Down and out in Budapest: Somali refugees face winter struggle [text]
• 22 January 2010: Lancet article calls for changes in health care practice for conflict-afflicted [text]
• 11 January 2010: You can't grow crops in asphalt: displaced Colombians struggle in the city [text]
• 4 January 2010: Displaced Colombians turn an unwanted corner of a major coastal port into a decent home [text]
• 23 December 2009: Education helps young refugees in Jordan cope with exile and the past [text]
• 21 December 2009: After feeling rural massacre, former tobacco farmer sells coffee in the city [text]
• 17 December 2009: Zimbabwean teenage asylum-seeker learns the high cost of freedom [text]
• 8 December 2009: Some 3000 Afghan refugees to leave Islamabad slum for new home [text]
• 7 December 2009: Urban refugee women teach themselves knitting - and self-confidence [text]
• 7 December 2009: Urban refugees struggle to make ends meet in South Africa [text]
• 7 December 2009: Responding to a growing challenge - protecting refugee in towns and cities [text]
• 4 December 2009: Africa on the front line as more refugees flock to cities [text]
• 4 December 2009: Protecting refugees in towns and cities across the Middle East - innovative operations but no durable solution in sight [text]
• 4 December 2009: Protecting refugees in towns and cities across Asia [text]

In addition, here are a few other UNHCR reports and discussion papers issued in conjunction with the HC's Dialogue on Protection Challenges that focused on people of concern in urban settings:

Designing appropriate interventions in urban settings: Health, education, livelihoods and registration for urban refugees and returnees (UNHCR, Dec. 2009) [text]

Refugee Education in Urban Settings: Discussion Paper for the High Commissioner's Dialogue (UNHCR, Dec. 2009) [text]

Refugee Education in Urban Settings: Case Studies from Nairobi, Kampala, Amman, Damascus (UNHCR, Dec. 2009) [text]

Refugee Livelihoods in Urban Settings: Discussion Paper for the High Commissioner's Dialogue (UNHCR, Dec. 2009) [text]

Return to, and Reintegration into, Urban Settings: Discussion Paper for the High Commissioner's Dialogue (UNHCR, Dec. 2009) [text]

Urban Refugee Health: Discussion Paper for the High Commissioner's Dialogue (UNHCR, Dec. 2009) [text]

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