South Sudan – Internal Displacement rises
South Sudan – Internal Displacement:
Norwegian Refugee Council reports that from December 2013 to-date, 900.000 people have fled due to political disagreements between the current government and opposition forces. People are living in the bushes, under the trees trying to escape the harsh climate, while being exposed to mosquito bites. The usual April rains are going to hamper the relief efforts further.
Sudha Rajput
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Dr. Sudha G. Rajput is the author of Internal Displacement and Conflict: The Kashmiri Pandits in Comparative Perspective (Routledge). Her 31-year career at the World Bank touched on multiple aspects of international development, working on thirteen countries of the former Soviet Union. Her co-authored book chapters appear in Scientific Explorations of Cause and Consequence across Social Contexts (Praeger) and in State, Society, and Minorities in Southeast Asia (Lexington Books). She writes for the Forced Migration Review. Her doctoral research has investigated issues of conflict-induced displacement in Kashmir, with a focus on societal and policy reform, leading her efforts to the development of a graduate course, Refugees and IDP Issues, drawing students from fields of conflict resolution, international development, humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding. She is a Senior Researcher at the Refugee Law Initiative, a U.K. based think-tank. She is a Consultant/Trainer for USAID, designing and conducting capacity building workshops in Khartoum, Sudan, promoting cross-border co-existence. As a Professional Lecturer, at George Washington University, she teaches at the Elliott School of International Affairs, where she brings multi-disciplinary approaches to her course on Refugee and Migrant Crisis. She is a trainer for the Forage Center for Peacebuilding Education, where during a 4-day humanitarian assistance simulation, she coaches students on systematic understanding of protracted displacements. She teaches at the University of Maryland Global Campus, delivering the MBA program for the military students. Her interests on post-conflict issues include her past travels to: Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Sudan, and Ukraine. Sudha’s blog on internal displacement can be found at www.internaldisplacement.info. Dr. Rajput lives in Washington, D.C. and can be reached at sudha_rajput@yahoo.com
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South Sudanese who fled to Sudan due to the ongoing war, have been subjected to many challenges regarding their social identity. The host country Sudan, denied recognizing them as refugees, instead it considered their case neither refugees nor IDPs status. Each of these terms maintain specific rights supported by national and international conventions. They have been granted incomplete definition to their status and this may deprive them of fundamental rights, first they were not legalized to be recruited in government jobs or to posses any assets inside Sudan, secondly they may lose packages of international assistance as refugees. Although the two countries have signed an agreement of (Four Freedoms) which grant the right of work, posses, movement, to the citizenship of both countries but implementation still suspended due to political complications. South Sudanese must be identified in a proper manner as refugees in Sudan at least to receive appropriate protection and reliefs.
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Gareeb
Thank you for your posting
What you describe resembles the cases of the ‘stateless’ people in Burma and elsewhere
Tour insights are very valuable
Sudha Rajput