Designing appropriate interventions in urban settings: Health, education, livelihoods and registration for urban refugees and returnees
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Challenges for Persons of Concern to UNHCR in Urban Settings 26 November 2009
4 Dec 2009 ... ... to live in marginal parts of cities (e.g. slums and shanty towns) that are ill-serviced, often ... A billion people live in unstable and overcrowded slums. Women and youth are considered to be at a ...... -
Disability, Displacement and Climate Change
Apr 2021 ... ... particularly for those with a disability. Many forcibly displaced people settle in camps and in slums, where infrastructure and services are weak and inaccessible, impacting the autonomy and dignity ...... -
Statement by Ms. Erika Feller, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to the First Meeting on Solidarity Resettlement in the Americas: "Global Trends in Refugee Resettlement: Challenges and Opportunities" (Quito, Ecuador, 2 February 2006)
2 Feb 2006 ... ... are close to 40 protracted refugee situations in which UNHCR is involved and it is dismal indeed to witness young and old alike condemned to existence in camps or urban slums in long-standing exile. ...... -
UNHCR mobile teams seek out vulnerable people in Darfur
25 May 2005 ... ... By destroying village life and forcing nearly 2 million people into instant slums on the outskirts of Darfur's bigger cities, the Janjaweed have re-engineered society in this troubled region, one the ...... -
Support for internally displaced people needs to be 'urgently stepped up'
16 Apr 2020 ... ... Sometimes they’re in camps set up by a government or by humanitarian organizations, but they also live in informal sites, which could be a slum or an abandoned or unfinished building. Some live in ...... -
How climate change is multiplying risks for displacement
2 Dec 2020 ... ... But cities in the region can be inhospitable places for rural newcomers. A shortage of jobs and housing often force them into slum areas where they are vulnerable to street gang violence and ...... -
UNHCR chief opens Yemen conference on Gulf of Aden crossings
19 May 2008 ... ... Last Thursday, he travelled to Kharaz Refugee Camp, 140 kilometres west of Aden. He also met with urban refugees in Aden's Basateen slum area, where Somalis live alongside needy Yemenis. He talked ...... -
UNHCR protection chief launches fresh look at Afghan situation
27 Feb 2008 ... ... Some 83,000 refugees live in Sistan-Baluchistan, including Mohamed Rustum, who resides with his family in the Shir Abad slum area of the provincial capital, Zahedan. "Why should I go back to ...... -
Head of UNHCR operations division shocked by condition of Somali displaced
4 May 2007 ... ... Somalia, so many people are poor that it is sometimes difficult to make a distinction between internally displaced people and the local poor population, as all live in slum-like conditions," she said. ......