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Identity, Movement and Control

Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand Course: Identity, Movement and Control, July-August 2009 Course Coordinator: Darshan Vigneswaran See attached file for syllabus IMC_Course_Syllabus_2009.pdf

Parenting the Missing

The ICRC recently estimated that more than 12,000 persons disappeared during the Government of Uganda – Lord’s Resistance Army conflict. Their whereabouts remain unknown to date. The full numbers of disappeared in Uganda as a whole remain a mystery, but the relatives of the missing continue to grieve, even years after the person disappeared, unable … Continue reading Parenting the Missing

Implementation of a Mental Health Care Package for Children in Areas of Armed Conflict: A Case Study from Burundi, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Sudan

In our 27th edition, we again consider psycho-social interventions with children in areas of armed conflict. Here we present this overview of a large scale child psychosocial and mental health research/practice programme, implemented in five countries. Each country project used a school population based multi-tiered model of care – with a triage system enabling children … Continue reading Implementation of a Mental Health Care Package for Children in Areas of Armed Conflict: A Case Study from Burundi, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Sudan

Documentary: Hidden Bruises

We are glad to share with you our latest documentary titled “Hidden Bruises”. This documentary highlights the challenges faced by refugee women and girls living in Kampala city where they find themselves caught in a web of survival. Many of them have suffered sexual and gender based violence such as rape leaving them with children born … Continue reading Documentary: Hidden Bruises

Working Paper 24: Promoting Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Against Men: A Comparative Legal Analysis of International and Domestic Laws Relating to IDP and Refugee Men in Uganda.

Refugee Law Project, in collaboration with the International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law is pleased to announce the publication of “Working Paper 24: Promoting Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Against Men: A Comparative Legal Analysis of International and Domestic Laws Relating to IDP and Refugee Men in Uganda.” This … Continue reading Working Paper 24: Promoting Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Against Men: A Comparative Legal Analysis of International and Domestic Laws Relating to IDP and Refugee Men in Uganda.

MA in Migration and Displacement

APPLY FOR A MASTERS OF ARTS IN MIGRATION AND DISPLACEMENT Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa | 2014 intake The African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) is the continent’s leading institution for teaching, research and outreach on human mobility For more than a decade, the ACMS has offered interdisciplinary postgraduate degrees in migration studies that are … Continue reading MA in Migration and Displacement

Somali Women’s Studies Centre

Our vision is to be a catalyst for positive change in the lives of Somali women through enhancing their capacity to undertake research and providing them a forum to tell their stories, to articulate their specific needs, and to exert their agency by calling for solutions that will effectively address the marginalization they experience in … Continue reading Somali Women’s Studies Centre

International Law and the Right to a Nationality in Sudan

Manby, B. (2011). International Law and the Right to a Nationality in Sudan. Africa Governance Monitoring Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) & Open Society Justice Initiative. Summary Among the many critically important choices that Sudan is facing in the context of the referendums on the status of South Sudan and Abyei are the criteria that will be established to determine … Continue reading International Law and the Right to a Nationality in Sudan

Displaced women in northern Ghana: Indigenous knowledge about ethnic conflict

This article presents the findings of field research in Ghana in 2002 about internal displacement stemming from multiethnic violence in northern Ghana in 1994, known as the “Guinea Fowl War.” Indigenous, gender-specific knowledge from displaced Ghanaian women is presented in the context of feminist perspectives on the consequences of regional wars on non-combatants. The research … Continue reading Displaced women in northern Ghana: Indigenous knowledge about ethnic conflict

Citizenship Law in Africa: A Comparative Study

Manby, B. (2010). Citizenship law in Africa: A comparative study. Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) & Open Society Justice Initiative. Summary Laws and practices governing citizenship in too many African countries effectively leave hundreds of thousands of people without a nationality. These stateless Africans are among the continent’s most vulnerable populations: they can neither vote nor … Continue reading Citizenship Law in Africa: A Comparative Study