Regional Focus: Africa - Pt. 1

Region-specific sessions at "UNHCR at 70" virtual conference:

Can the Global Compact Ease East Africa’s Refugee Burden?, 19 January 2021 [info]

- Hosted by the Institute for Security Studies.

Local Integration of Refugees: The Southern African Experience, 19 January 2021 [info]

- Hosted by the Centre for Human Rights at Pretoria University.

The Role of Connected Learning in Advancing Protection Efforts, 19 January 2021 [info]

- Hosted by the Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium.

Strategies on Refugee Protection in Southern Africa, 19 January 2021 [info]

- Hosted by the Centre for Human Rights at Pretoria University.

Partnerships for Managing Protracted Displacement in West Africa, 21 January 2021 [info]

- Hosted by the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of Ghana.

Refugee Protection in West and Central Africa:  Legal and Policy Frameworks, Solutions, and Challenges, 21 January 2021 [info]

- Hosted by the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of Ghana.

Blog posts & press:

*Containment Development and Africa’s Time-Space Trap (Asile Project Forum, Dec. 2020) [text]

"COVID-19 and refugee management in the Great Lakes region," Rights in Exile News, no. 119 (Jan. 2021) [text]

"Ethiopia: A partial view of the humanitarian fallout emerges in Tigray," The New Humanitarian, 12 Jan. 2021 [text]

*New Pact’s focus on migrant returns threatens Africa-EU partnership (Asile Project Forum, Dec. 2020) [text]

Statement attributable to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on the situation of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s Tigray region (UNHCR, Jan. 2021) [text]

Reports:

ARUA MHPSS Survey Report: Study Conducted in Rhino Camp and Imvepi Refugee Settlements (UNHCR, July 2020) [text]

- "Report on suicide assessment conducted in Imvepi and Rhino Camp Refugee Settlements [in Uganda] to establish the cause of suicidal ideation, most affected populations and possible remedial measures to be put in place."

Civil Society Input to EU-AFRICA Cooperation on Migration: The Case of The Gambia, Working Paper, no. 12 (ECRE, Dec. 2020) [text]

Niger: A Consultative Process for Adopting a National Law on Internal Displacement (Global Protection Cluster, Nov. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

South Sudan: Building Consensus on the Drafting of a National Law on Internal Displacement (Global Protection Cluster, Nov. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Unintended Consequences for Exclusions, Advocates' Migration Brief, no. 1 (Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa, Dec. 2020) [text]

- Focuses on South Africa.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: Africa (29 Dec. 2020)