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Refugee Studies Mind Map on UNHCR, created by ellywhitehead on 23/04/2013.
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UNHCR
Between a Rock and a Hard Place?
Budgetary Constriants
97% based on voluntary contributions
makes long term planning difficult
'earmarking' by donors
Choice of Commissioner
Puppet for Major donors?
National soverignty
States decide who qualifies unless UNHCR asked to help
during conflict?
3 durable solutions of 1951 Convention
Resettlement onto a third country
Integration into country that they fled to
Voluntary repatriation to country of origin
CASE STUDIES
RWANDA and the GREAT LAKES
Invasion in 1994 by RPF leads to mass exodus of Hutus
Hutus flees to neighboring countries and set up Camps
DRC 1.2m
Tanzania 580,000
Implications
Economic cost - initial response and local economy
Social Cost - racial tension; Cholera
Political: DRC, Rwanda attack militarized camps
Environmental; wood for fire etc
Security
Interhamwe administered camps
Radio Mill Collines continues to broadcast in camps
UNHCR funding war?
close to borders, provoking Rwandan attacks
SGBV in camps
HEALTH issues
VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE
Post 1975
After US withdrawal from Vietnam South flee to Hong Kong
Thatcher pledged 'PORT OF FIRST ASYLUM'
open centres run by UNHCR
employment opportunities
91% resettlement rate
1982
Camps CLOSE
LOCAL XENOPHOBIA
1988 Screening Process
illegal until screened
90% REJECTION
1989 - Comprehensive Plan of Action and Voluntary Repatriation Programme
Financial inducements
mandatory repatriation
apauling camp conditions
1992 25% budget cuts
1996 US program of return
1997 Hong Kong handover
YUGOSLAVIA
UNHCR as lead agency
Area of expertise
Bureaucratic presence
War situation
response to ethnic cleansing
Majority of funding goes to UNPROFOR (Military)
1995 - Srebrenica
7000 men and boys killed
30 Dutch Peacekeepers taken hostage
28th Aug - Market bomb kills 37
Resolution
NATO - 2 week intensive bombing
DAYTON
All actors agree to let people return safely
People able to claim back property
Freedom of movement
LESSONS LEARNED?
UNHCR not used to operating in war
Military uncomfortable with humanitarian role
division of leadership (UNHCR/UNPROFOR)
UNHCR associated with blue helmets
UNPROFOR 6 month rotation disrupts continuity
UNHCR forced to use 'safe havens' sue to donor interests
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