BY CARLOS SLUZKI Internally displaced people (IDP), estimated at over 27 million individuals according to United Nations data (UNHCR 2010), are a byproduct of political violence or warfare not only in Sudan, Colombia, or Iraq (which are the three areas with the largest IDP population), but also in Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Democratic [...]
BY DAVID W. HAINES As Senator Edward Kennedy began hearings on the bill that would become the Refugee Act of 1980, he commented for the record that “I believe our national policy of welcome to the homeless has served our country and our traditions well. But we are here this morning to explore how we [...]
BY SUSAN BENESCH Once unimaginable, prosecutions for state-sponsored atrocities are multiplying rapidly. They continue to deliver new milestones, both by expanding transnationally and by reaching previously untouchable defendants. Some trials astonish even their own proponents, as this symposium illustrated: Peru’s conviction of its former head of state Alberto Fujimori in April left Ronald Gamarra Herrera [...]
BY DAVID W. HAINES In 1939, as the St. Louis sailed first to Cuba and then along the east coast of the United States, the U.S. government refused to land the Jewish refugees on board—even though some 700 already had affidavits of support. They and many other Jews over the next several years would be [...]
BY CARLOS E. SLUZKI No less than 20 million of people, escaping wars, civil wars, persecution, ethnic cleansing and the like, are currently living as refugees beyond the borders of their own countries, and a still larger number are living as displaced persons within the boundaries of their country. Their protection is the core mission [...]