The State of the World's Refugees 2000
Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Price: £25.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924106-4
Publication date: 9 November 2000
352 pages, 90 halftones & line illus, 246x189 mm
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| - 'This account of the tragedies of the past half-century should be widely read throughout civil society and by those in power, both to realise the full scale of human suffering and to engender the necessary political will' - Development Policy Review
- 'The volume's perspective on crises in which it has been involved is invaluable, and the impact of global events on the institution's evolution is intriguing' - Journal of Refugee Studies
- 'The book is a goldmine of valuable information and a 'must-read' for all those involved in humanitarian assistance, educators, and students of forced migration, the media, and law' - Development in Practice
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| Description | | - Publishing on the 50th Anniversary of the creation of the UNHCR
- The refugee issue is one of the hottest topics in international politics and current affairs, and the UNHCR is seldom out of the news
- The book is filled with accessible and informative photographs, pictures, diagrams, maps, and tables
| UNHCR - the world's leading refugee organization - examines the major refugee crises of the last 50 years and the changing nature of international responses to the problem of forced displacement.
Refugees and other displaced people are the victims of events beyond their control: persecution, armed conflict, and human rights violations. Increasingly, they are also recognized as an important
factor affecting both national security and world politics. With over a million people forced to flee their homes in Kosovo, East Timor, and Chechnya in 1999 alone, it is clear that the problem of forced human displacement will remain a major concern of the international community in the 21st century.
This book describes the development of international refugee law and the establishment of
institutions devoted to the protection of refugees and other displaced people. It traces the major crises in which UNHCR has been involved since its establishment 50 years ago. Beginning with the mass displacement in Europe after the Second World War, the book addresses the flight of refugees from Hungary in 1956, crises associated with process of decolonization in Africa, the Bangladesh refugee
emergency in 1971, the sustained exodus from Indochina which began in the 1970s, and the large outflows resulting from the protracted wars of the 1980s in Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and Central America.
Looking at the challenges of the 1990s, the book examines the popular shifts in the former Soviet region, the Kurdish exodus from northern Iraq following the Gulf war, the increasingly
restrictive asylum policies in Europe and North America, and the recent crises in the Balkans, the Great Lakes region of Africa, East Timor, and the Caucasus.
In this timely and important publication, UNHCR emphasizes the need to find lasting solutions to problems of forced displacement. Without human security, it argues, there can be no peace and stability. |
Readership: Scholars and students in international relations, refugee studies, international law, modern history, journalists, researchers, scholars, students working in the field of international relations, refugee studies, international law; politicians, civil servants, lobbyists, charity and aid workers; the interested general public.
| Contents |
Introduction
Part I: ESTABLISHING A REFUGEE REGIME
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Early years
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De-colonisation in Africa
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Rupture in South Asia
Part II: INTERNATIONALISATION OF REFUGEE CRISES
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Flight from Indo-China
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War in Africa, Afghanistan and Central America
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Peace-Keeping, Peace-Building
Part III: CURRENT CHALLENGES
7.
Asylum in the Industrialised World
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Population Movements in the Former Soviet Region
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Military Intervention in Iraq and the Balkans
10.
Genocide in the Great Lakes
Part IV: LOOKING FORWARD
11.
The Future of Refugee Protection
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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