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Displaying 30 of about 32 resultsThe world’s response to the COVID-19 crisis must encompass and focus on all, including those forced to flee their homes. The elderly among the world’s forcibly displaced population are particularly vulnerable, warned today UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, launching its initial COVID-19 appeal.
UNHCR is urgently seeking an initial US$33 million to boo…
By Daniela Carlucci
Work is beginning to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 to almost 140,000 refugees and nearby communities in Cameroon.
The projects have been enabled by the Migration Emergency Response Fund (MERF), which has released funding, following a crisis alert on 20 March. The ‘anticipation alert’ was raised as aid a…
GENEVA - Widespread abuse of migrant workers and multiple examples of human rights violations were vividly highlighted by experts in the Asia and the Pacific Region speaking in a UNDRR-hosted webinar on “Human Rights Dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic”.
The webinar’s 840 participants from 66 countries heard a call from the UN Office of the High Commis…
By Mieke Kox and Ilse van Liempt
Asylum seekers’ lives are on hold during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Arriving asylum seekers were temporarily unable to claim asylum and pending asylum procedures are – except for a pilot with remote video hearing – suspended. This raises the question what the current uncertainty means for those asylum seekers w…
By Global Science Advice
Overview of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
Imagine losing everything in a disaster or conflict – your home, your valuable possessions, even a person you hold dear. Imagine watching everything you have worked hard towards a comfortable life crumble to the ground. Imagine being forced to move out of your home to anothe…
idRc 2020, with the theme “ Resilience of/in Megacities ”, is organized by the international peer-reviewed Resilience Journal and its editorial group.
Resilience is described as the capacity of a system, community, or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt by resisting or changing in order to reach and maintain an acce…
The world is gripped by a truly global public health emergency. From New York to Wuhan, attention and resources are being directed to fight the spread of COVID-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus (officially, SARS-CoV-2). On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the situation a pandemic. Healthcare system…
As concerns mount about the number of reported infections from a new coronavirus and its spread to at least 18 countries, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) stands ready to offer technical support to governments, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), to enable people to travel in a healthy manner and help enact public…
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak expanded rapidly throughout China. Major behavioral, clinical, and state interventions were undertaken to mitigate the epidemic and prevent the persistence of the virus in human populations in China and worldwide. It remains unclear how these unprecedented interventions, including travel restricti…
By S. Nanthini
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Irregular migrants already struggling with poverty, displacement and discrimination, will be one of the hardest hit communities by the COVID-19 pandemic. Facing stigmatisation and a lack of resources, they are often overlooked in policy conversations despite their especially high vulnerability to the virus.
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This paper analyzes the specific ways migrants have been affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID) pandemic and presents a diversity of measures adopted in migrants’ host and home countries to prevent, mitigate and address its negative impacts. By doing so, it aims to provide insights for more inclusive and effective COVID-19 policies and o…
GENEVA - The COVID-19 pandemic is causing enormous hardship for millions of migrants and displaced who need to be included in both response and economic mitigation measures being put in place across Asia and the Pacific, the world’s most disaster-affected region.
“This pandemic has exposed us to what a future 21st century disaster would look like. We c…
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In the week ending June 20, just over half -- 51% -- of the 3,471 people tracked said they had never heard of COVID-19.
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The migrants are often young men from rural parts of neighbouring Ethiopia. Most have no education, and some are from communities where internet access is low, Bean said. She doubted that anything had been lost in transl…
By Alexandra Bilak, Director, IDMC
Nearly 46 million people, almost twice the global number of refugees, have been uprooted within their own countries because of conflict and violence worldwide, and more than 5 million more as a result of disaster.
In the 22 years in which we have been counting, the global number of internally displaced people (IDPs)…
By Alex Randall
Roughly 15 million people are displaced every year by climate and weather related disasters, including floods. This year much of that displacement will take place against the backdrop of a pandemic. This talk explores how the coronavirus pandemic collides with current patterns of climate-linked migration and displacement, and what…