"State of the World?s Refugees, 2000"

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"UNHCR?s 50 years of humanitarian action". Though this report is a good introcution to refugee studies, it has rather few references to Burma. UNHCR in its wisdom has not given us the option of downloading the full text (thinking, perhaps, that 18MB or so would be indigestible), so we have to access it by individual chapters and therefore cannot do a full-document search. The chapters with the main Burma references (according to the index of the print version) are: Chapter 3 (mainly Box 3.3,"The plight of the Rohingyas"); another reference to the Rohingyas in Chapter 8 (Box 8.1, "Statelessness and disputed citizenship"). Chapter 9 (Box 9.1) refers to IDPs in Burma; The report contains: Preface by the UN Secretary-General; Foreword by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees; Introduction. The chapters are: 1 The early years; 2 Decolonisation in Africa; 3 Rupture in South Asia; 4 Flight from Indochina; 5 Proxy wars in Africa, Asia and Central America; 6 Repatriation and peacebuilding in the early 1990s; 7 Asylum in the industrialized world; 8 Displacement in the former Soviet region; 9 War and humanitarian action : Iraq and the Balkans; 10 The Rwandan genocide and its aftermath; 11 The changing dynamics of displacement. There are useful tables in the Annexes and a good bibliography under Further Reading.

Source/publisher: 

UNHCR

Date of Publication: 

2000-00-00

Date of entry: 

2010-12-20

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  • Individual Documents

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English

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