Designing appropriate interventions in urban settings: Health, education, livelihoods and registration for urban refugees and returnees
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Media Advisory: Half of the world's refugees now live in cities
7 Dec 2009 ... both absorbed hundreds of thousands of victims of armed conflict who swell ill-serviced slum areas. ... Forced to live in overcrowded slums and shanty towns, with little or no access to health and social ...... -
Opening Remarks by Mr. António Guterres, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, at the High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges for Persons of Concern in Urban Settings, Palais des Nations, Geneva, 9 December 2009
9 Dec 2009 ... ... of thousands of victims of armed conflict, swelling slums which were already poorly serviced. ... poverty alleviation, disaster-risk reduction, slum-clearance and similar initiatives must respond ...... -
Refugees and their host communities in India hard hit by coronavirus lockdown
1 Jul 2020 ... Atri said that with the monsoon and dengue season, those living in congested slum-like conditions ... challenging because many of them live in slums [shacks] where it’s difficult for them to ...... -
Kenya: UN to launch $40 million consolidated appeal
15 Jan 2008 ... Last week, UNHCR provided the Kenya Red Cross Society with some 400 family kits for distribution to an estimated 2,000 needy families living mainly in Nairobi's slum areas. A total of 3,200 family ...... -
Report of the High Commissioner's 2009 Dialogue on Urban Settings
1 Mar 2010 ... ... neighbourhoods and structures controlled by slums lords and criminal gangs. 6. Refugees have ... What are the essential elements of an urban policy that integrates slum- dwellers and refugees/...... -
UNHCR prepares to evacuate 300 urban refugees from Nairobi
22 Jan 2008 ... Most of these people came from the sprawling Kibera slum and the densely populated areas of Kariobangi and Huruma in eastern Nairobi. Many refugees told UNHCR they had been threatened in their home ...... -
World Refugee Day 2003 Information Kit - Section 4: Refugee Youth Stories - Assumani, a 15 year old Congolese separated minor living in South Africa
1 Jun 2003 ... After two months of flight, Assumani arrived in South Africa in February 2002. At first, he stayed at a shelter for unaccompanied minors in an inner city slum of Johannesburg. An experience when ...... -
Refugee camps in Chad: planning strategies and the architect's involvement in the humanitarian dilemma, Manuel Herz
10 Dec 2007 ... ... according to UN-Habitat, 99 per cent of urban settlements in Chad can be classified as slums 4 . ... developmental aid in various projects such as slum upgrading, creates solutions that preferably ...... -
UNHCR chief calls for end to displacement chapter during Iraq visit
24 Jan 2011 ... "These people are living in dramatic circumstances. They are homeless or living in slums and feel a high level of despair," Guterres said. "We need to provide more humanitarian assistance to the most ......