Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1

Blog posts & press:

"Asylum seekers take to the UN to reclaim inalienable human rights," Al Jazeera, 10 Dec. 2022 [text]

Explaining Public Attitudes Toward Refugees (Political Violence at a Glance, Dec. 2022) [text]

- Focuses on Syrians in Turkey.

Warring Parties in Yemen Silent Amid Reports of Migrant Abuse (Human Rights Watch, Dec. 2022) [text]

Reports & book chapters:

Independent evaluation of CAMEALEON: Evaluation report (NRC, Oxfam & Solidarités International, Nov. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Syrians in Lebanon; CAMEALEON = Cash Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning Organizational Network. 

“It’s like we are not human”: Forced returns, abhorrent detention conditions of Ethiopian migrants in Saudi Arabia (Amnesty International, Dec. 2022) [text]

“They beat him in the head, to check if he was dead”: Evidence of crimes under international law by Morocco and Spain at the Melilla border (Amnesty International, Dec. 2022) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Follow link for text in English and Arabic; see also French and Spanish versions.

"What UNRWA Tells Us about Refugees and the United Nations," Chapter 15 in Does the UN Model Still Work? Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Multilateralism (Brill, Nov. 2022) [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (6 Dec. 2022)