Support to the UNHCR's State Pledges Process
To commemorate its 60th Anniversary, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is facilitating a ministerial-level meeting on 7 and 8 December 2011 to review protection gaps and measures to address them. States are being encouraged to make voluntary pledges at this meeting. The pledging process will serve as an opportunity for States to identify issues and challenges of importance to them and promote realistic ways to respond.
The Refugee Studies Centre, as a leading centre for multidisciplinary, independent and critical scholarship on the causes and consequences of the forced displacement of populations, is supporting this process by highlighting a number of the RSC’s resources which are relevant to the proposed pledges and which, we hope, will help States in their thinking about the issues at stake.
These key resources are listed below, organised thematically under the pledge themes.
ADDRESSING STATELESSNESS
RSC Research Project: Stateless diasporas
RSC Research Project: The Bedouin Health Project
Conference report: Refugee Status Determination and rights in Southern and East Africa
RSC Policy Briefing 3: Statelessness, protection and equality
Forced Migration Review issue 32: Statelessness
Working Paper 55: Prima facie determination of refugee status: An overview and its legal foundation
PREVENTING DISCRIMINATION
RSC Research Project: Young undocumented migrants in the UK
RSC Research Project: The Bedouin Health Project
Book: Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe: Poverty, Ethnic Mobilization, and the Neoliberal Order
RSC Policy Briefing 4: Iraq's refugees-beyond 'tolerance'
Forced Migration Review issue 35: Disability and displacement
Forced Migration Review issue 30: Burma’s displaced people
Forced Migration Review 27: Sexual violence: weapon of war, impediment to peace
Forced Migration Review issue 14: Older displaced people: at the back of the queue?
Forced Migration Review issue 9: Gender and displacement
FMO Research Guide: Gender and displacement
FMO Research Guide: Children and adolescents in conflict situations
FMO Research Guide: Reproductive health
FMO Research Guide: Forced migration and public health
Working Paper 74: Sexual orientation in Refugee Status Determination
Working Paper 67: Negotiating childhood: Age assessment in the UK asylum system
Working Paper 52: Understanding and addressing the phenomenon of 'child soldiers'
RESOLVING PROTRACTED REFUGEE SITUATIONS
Book: Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications
Book: Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East
Forced Migration Review issue 36: Democratic Republic of Congo: Past. Present. Future?
Forced Migration Review issue 33: Protracted displacement
Forced Migration Review issue 30: Burma’s displaced people
Forced Migration Review issue 26: Palestinian displacement: a case apart?
Working Papers 77-79: Unlocking crises of protracted displacement
Working Paper 62 Livelihoods under protracted conflict: A case study of Sri Lanka
IMPROVING HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE
RSC Research Project: Costs and impacts of forced migration
Book: Refugees and International Relations
Conference report: Faith-based humanitarianism
Workshop report: Dynamics of conflict and forced migration in the Democratic Republic of Congo
RSC Policy Briefing 2: Development assistance and refugees: Towards a North-South grand bargain?
Forced Migration Review issue 36: Democratic Republic of Congo: Past. Present. Future?
Forced Migration Review issue 34: Adapting to urban displacement
Forced Migration Review issue 31: Climate change and displacement
Forced Migration Review issue 29: Humanitarian reform: fulfilling its promise?
FMO Research Guide: Urban refugees
Working Paper 72: Humanitarian assistance as containment: New codes for a new order
Working Paper 63: The African Union, the United Nations and civilian protection challenges in Darfur
Working Paper 58: Civilian protection in Sri Lanka under threat
Working Paper 50: UNHCR as an autonomous organisation: Complex operations and the case of Kosovo
Working Paper 46: ‘Voluntary repatriation’ and the case of Afghanistan: A critical examination
Working Paper 40: Return in dignity: A neglected protection challenge
These and many more resources are available on the RSC Resources DVD – 2011 edition. The disk is available free of charge and does not require an internet connection. Sign up online to receive a copy
