Pages

16 February 2024

Regional Focus: Africa

Opportunities:

Refocus: An Online Summer Forced Migration in Africa Workshop Series, every Wednesday in April 2024 [info]
- The theme is "Forced Migration and Regionalism in Africa today." Follow the link to register your interest.

CFP: Making Sense of Forced Displacement in The Horn of Africa Conference, Online, 27-28 June 2024 [info]
- Submit abstracts by 28 February 2024.

Short pieces:

A Commentary on the Provisions of the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (CHRLP Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

Donkeys are unsung heroes in Ethiopia’s humanitarian crisis – and they could do even more with better support (The Conversation, Feb. 2024) [text]

Explainer: UNHCR's Emergency Transit Mechanism Centre in Rwanda (UNHCR, Feb. 2024) [text]

Sudan Conflict Fuels World’s Largest Internal Displacement (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 2024) [text]

UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection appeals to South Africa to uphold and preserve asylum system for refugees and asylum-seekers (UNHCR, Feb. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Bearing Witness: Atrocities and Looming Hunger in Darfur - A Report Informed by Darfur Refugees in Eastern Chad (Refugees International, Feb. 2024) [text]

Cross-border household multisector survey in Somalia and Kenya (AVSI, Dec. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Experiences of refugees and migrants fleeing Sudan to Addis Ababa as a result of the 2023 conflict (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2023) [text]

Experiences of refugees and migrants fleeing Sudan to Juba as a result of the 2023 conflict (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2023) [text]

Implications of Choice of Second Stage Selection Method on Sampling Error and Non-Sampling Error: Evidence from an IDP Camp in South Sudan, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 10675 (World Bank, Jan. 2024) [text]

Migrants’ Right to Health: Legal and Policy Instruments Related to Migrants’ Access to Health Care, Social Protection and Labour in Selected East African Countries (IOM, Feb. 2024) [text]

Movements, challenges and abuses of refugees and migrants in Eastern Sudan (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

*"Breathing Life into the Kampala Convention: Towards Workable Enforcement Mechanisms," Journal of African Law, vol. 67, no. 3 (2023) [open access]

"Cross-sectional survey data on the socio-demographic characteristics associated with substance use among internal displaced persons in Maiduguri, Nigeria," Data in Brief, vol. 52 (Feb. 2024) [open access]

"The Entanglement Between Tangible and Intangible Factors in Shaping Hadiya Migration Aspirations to South Africa," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 6 Feb. 2024 [open access]

"The Kampala Convention and Challenges to Geopolitical Security," Strategic Review for Southern Africa, vol. 45, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

"Symptoms of posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and depression, along with their associated factors, among Eritrean refugees in Dabat town, northwest Ethiopia, 2023," BMC Psychology, 12:62 (Feb. 2024) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

No comments:

Post a Comment