Designing appropriate interventions in urban settings: Health, education, livelihoods and registration for urban refugees and returnees
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Adapting to urban displacement: Forced Migration Review, Issue 34
Feb 2010 ... ... and cities – with nearly 1.5 billion people living in precarious informal and slum settlements. ... Over one billion of these urban dwellers live in slums and informal ‘spontaneous’ settlements ...... -
UNHCR Côte d'Ivoire Situation Update, 16 June 2011
16 Jun 2011 ... support • The Minister of Interior recently approached humanitarian agencies for their assistance to 6,000 families (30,000 persons) living in the slum areas of Abidjan, who are affected by flood. ...... -
The refugees learning to reconnect
24 Jul 2015 ... Terrified, Budiaki hid in the slums of Kinshasa, but soon realised that her best chance of survival was to flee. She would never again see her parents, who lived and farmed in the countryside, or her ...... -
Afghanistan at the crossroads: Afghan returnees assess the lay of the land
19 Nov 2008 ... Located 45 kilometres north-east of Kabul in Parwan province, this township is now home to more than 450 families of returnees and IDPs who used to live in slums in Kabul. Some inhabitants think it ...... -
Pakistan: UNHCR welcomes government response to reports of Afghan harassment
24 May 2002 ... The latter were threatened with jail if they were seen on the streets. UNHCR has also received a number of reports about random police raids in slum areas inhabited by Afghans, during which police ...... -
Colombia launches campaign for the rights of displaced people
6 Feb 2007 ... While the tourists enjoy the beauty of the old town, many displaced people in Cartagena live in virtual slums. Like many others displaced in the country, they face daily problems with housing, ...... -
A ray of hope from Colombia's badlands
15 May 2002 ... since 1985. Many internally displaced persons (IDPs) have moved from the countryside to the grim slums that surround Barrancabermeja, the region's main city. "People don't want to move unless they ...... -
Head of UNHCR's Executive Committee visits displaced in Colombia
12 Jun 2007 ... Mtesa also visited the Altos de Cazucá shanty town on the outskirts of Bogota. Some 40 percent of the 18,000 people living in the slum are estimated to be internally displaced people (IDPs). At the ...... -
UNHCR's help for displaced Zimbabweans produces tangible results
17 Feb 2010 ... It helped some 220 people in Manicaland last year and UNHCR is expanding the programme to cover the whole country this year. Florence and her mother were displaced as a result of slum clearance in ......