Thematic Focus: Persons with Disabilities

Event:

Seminar: EU Asylum Law and Disabled Refugees – Is the UK Reservation to the CRPD in the Context of Asylum Law Redundant?, London, 16 March 2016 [info]

Publications:

Disability in Humanitarian Context: Views from Affected People and Field Organisations (Handicap International, July 2015) [text via ReliefWeb]

Disabled and Displaced: The Plight of Somalia's Most Vulnerable (RI Blog, Feb. 2016) [text]

Life in Limbo: Disabled Syrian Refugees in Jordan (Syria Deeply, Feb. 2016) [text]

Mean Streets: Identifying and Responding to Urban Refugees’ Risks of Gender-based Violence - Refugees with Disabilities (Women's Refugee Commission, 2016) [access]
- Scroll down to access thematic report.

Responding to Raids of Disabled Central American Refugees (Yale Law School, Jan. 2016) [access]
- Follow link for texts of several letters and press releases.

"The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Persons with Disabilities," International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, vol. 6, no. 2 (June 2015) [open access]

Thematic Study on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities under Article 11 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, on Situations of Risk and Humanitarian Emergencies, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/31/30 (UN General Assembly, Nov. 2015) [text via Refworld]

"'Up to Now I Am Suffering': Justice, Sexual Violence and Disability amongst Refugees in Uganda," International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, vol. 1, no. 4 (2015) [preprint via SSRN]

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