Download or read book Central America written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refugee Problems in Central America written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central America written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO provided information on the conditions of Salvadoran and Nicaraguan refugees and displaced persons in Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. GAO found that: (1) about 120,000 Central American refugees, including about 28,000 refugees from El Salvador and about 48,000 from Nicaragua, registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and were receiving food, education, and health care assistance; (2) the number of refugees not registered with UNHCR is believed to be several times greater than the number of registered refugees; (3) over 200,000 Salvadorans have been displaced within their own country; (4) camps in Costa Rica had running water and electricity, but refugee camps in Honduras and displaced persons sites in El Salvador did not; and (5) although many refugees have repatriated, continuing conflicts in the region have discouraged others from returning to their countries.
Download or read book Refugees and Displaced Persons in Central America written by Patricia Weiss Fagen and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the situation of refugees and displaced persons in Central America with particular emphasis on assistance and protection issues and on the US Government's policy in the region. It is divided into five parts. The first contains an overview of refugee exoduses and movements of displaced persons within Central America and Mexico. The author suggests that the US Government has not paid sufficient attention to the problems of refugees and displaced persons in Central America, despite the fact that US contributions to UNHCR have been an essential component in the international refugee programmes in that region. The legal status of refugees and protection issues in each country are examined in the second and third parts. The author notes that Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama and, recently, Guatemala and El Salvador are signatories to the UN 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol. At the same time, she observes that there are no refugee programmes in Guatemala and that the UNHCR has neither been invited to investigate the conditions of the 70,000 Salvadorians there nor to establish programmes to help them. It is pointed out that, while adhering to the principle of non-refoulement, the Mexican Government has been under pressure both internally and also from the US Government to pursue repatriation negotiations with the Guatemalan Government, and that some Salvadorian refugees may have been sent back across the border to Guatemala. The author argues that displaced persons are on the whole more vulnerable than refugee groups to repression and assault, and she notes that the situation in El Salvador has been recognized as a major humanitarian emergency by the Government. The two final parts of the report contain the conclusions and recommendations. The author's recommendations include: 1) assistance programmes should be channelled through local churches or other independent agencies; 2) the US Government should ensure that its assistance programmes be administered by social service agencies, not the military as is the case in Guatemala; 3) there should be an increased international presence in Nicaragua to exert a humanitarian influence in issues concerning Miskito Indians; 4) the US should continue to support ICRC programmes in Nicaragua; 5) US assistance programmes in El Salvador should be less politicized; and 6) the US Government should avoid allowing political and military considerations to take precedence over the protection of refugees. In conclusion, the author suggests that the restoration of peace in the region would result in voluntary repatriation.
Download or read book Latin America and Refugee Protection written by Liliana Lyra Jubilut and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at refugee protection in Latin America, this landmark edited collection assesses what the region has achieved in recent years. It analyses Latin America’s main documents in refugee protection, evaluates the particular aspects of different regimes, and reviews their emergence, development and effect, to develop understanding of refugee protection in the region. Drawing from multidisciplinary texts from both leading academics and practitioners, this comprehensive, innovative and highly topical book adopts an analytical framework to understand and improve Latin America’s protection of refugees.
Download or read book Conditions Creating Refugees and U S Asylum Seekers from Central America written by Thomas J. Schulz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central America written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Central American Refugees written by Elizabeth G. Ferris and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing Solutions for Central American Refugee Problems written by Jonathan Moore and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central America Conditions of Refugees and Displaced Persons written by United States. General Accounting Office. National Security and International Affairs Division and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refugees and U S Asylum Seekers from Central America written by Nancy R. Kingsbury and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refugees in Central America written by World Council of Churches. Refugee Service and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This May issue is devoted to a consideration of the situation in Central America. Central America refugees are concentrated in countries in the region with relatively stable governments: Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Canada and the USA. It is estimated that 85% are in North America. As the political situation in Central America has deteriorated, NGOs and churches have had increasingly difficult relations with governments and with UNHCR. In Central America refugees and displaced persons are often considered subversives and those who work with them are suspected of supporting subservice movements. Very considerable packages of economic assistance are being prepared for the region but it is not yet clear whether aid will be channelled solely through governments or partly through NGOs. The role of UNHCR is also unclear. Some of the factors affecting the climate for NGOs and churches include: the proliferation of NGOs; the tendency of Central American governments to create their own 'NGOs' to administer funds and programmes for refugees; the tendency of UN agencies to become operational rather than to work through NGOs; and the growing importance of refugee organisations. The article then discusses the situation in various countries of the region: in Costa Rica, where the main refugee population is Nicaraguan; in Honduras, where the majority of refugees are from El Salvador; in Mexico, where there is a large refugee population including many in transit to the USA. Entry into the USA and Canada has become much more difficult recently and there is fear that the immigration 'crisis' will be used to justify hard-line deterrence policies in the USA and the construction of major detention centres along the Mexico border. Given the trend of developments in the region and the waning prospects of peace and justice it is more important than ever that NGOs work together to protect the interests of refugees.
Download or read book Central America written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Repatriation Under Conflict in Central America written by Mary Ann Larkin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Out of the Ashes written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet reproduces and describes some of the work and creativity of refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala. In the first part of the book, refugees tell why they were forced to leave their homes. The situation in El Salvador and Guatemala is then described, together with the number of refugees who have fled these countries and the reception they receive in the countries of asylum. The second part of the publication contains a series of personal reflections on life in the refugee communities. Refugees flee their homes with nothing, leaving most of their possessions behind. Once they cross the border, they settle in refugee camps, in shanty towns in urban areas, some are resettled in farming cooperatives, others try to find sanctuary in the United States. The experiences of refugees in all of these situations are recounted. Wherever they find asylum, the displaced persons and refugees begin to organize themselves and create new communities and it is this aspect that is next covered. The first priority is to organize food distribution and a hygienic sanitation system. Refugee Coordination Committees are established, new huts built for community centres, health and nutrition clinics, a church, etc. In order to become self-sufficient, crops are planted, workshops are set up for producing handicrafts. Providing facilities for education and skills training is also a major priority. Most of the refugees live with the hope of one day returning to their homes and the refugees express these feelings in the final part of the publication. Suggestions are also given on how the reader can help refugees from Central America.
Download or read book Central America written by Stati Uniti. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
