Resource A Rights in Crisis Guide to Influencing This guide is an essential resource for all those wanting to understand how the humanitarian system works, who to influence and what issues to campaign on in order to ensure respect for the rights of women, men, girls and boys at risk or affected by conflicts and disasters.
Resource Protection beyond reach: State of play of refugee and migrant children's rights in Europe With this report, Save the Children aims to assess how children have been affected since the beginning of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’. We look at five key themes: protection at Europe’s outer borders; immigration detention; access to asylum and residency; family reunification; and guardianship.
Resource Bridging the Digital Divide in Migrant Education: Critical Pedagogy and Inclusive Education Approach This review paper explores the relationship between migration and issues of social justice, inequalities, and access to education which have been exacerbated recently with the emergence of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and have taken on a new dimension with the digitalization of education specifically for refugees among other immigrants.
Resource Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2021 Continuing a worrying decade-long rising trend, the number of people forced to flee due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order climbed to 89.3 million by the end of 2021. This is more than double the 42.7 million people who remained forcibly displaced at the end of 2012 and represents a sharp 8 per cent increase of almost 7 million people in the span of just 12 months.
Resource Covid-19 pandemic: key messages for advocacy This document provides HelpAge International staff, network members and partners with key messages to advocate for the effective inclusion of older people in preparedness planning and ongoing responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Resource Becoming an Adult in Internal Displacement The report is intended to raise awareness on the need to include young IDPs in plans to prevent and respond to displacement, to ensure adequate support for all, and to make the most of the resilience and resources young people can display under such circumstances.
Resource Unlocking Futures: A Global Overview of Education in Emergencies Financing This timely analysis highlights persistent challenges and untapped opportunities, offering a guide to all those working to address the chronic underfunding of education in crisis contexts. The four persistent challenges explain why EiE continues to be underfunded and not prioritised as highly as other sectors. The three opportunities point a way forward to mobilise more funding for EiE.
Resource Mobile is a Lifeline: Research from Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania This report explores the socio-economic impact of connectivity for refugees in a large, rural camp setting in Tanzania. Nyarugusu is one of three large refugee camps in the Kigoma region.
Resource Continuity education in emergency and conflict situations: the case for using open, distance and flexible learning [ODFL] Emergency and conflict in countries such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Haiti and Afghanistan have made us more aware of the long-term serial disruption and psychosocial damage faced by people caught up in emergency and conflict areas. Open, distance and flexible learning (ODFL) has sometimes been employed in these regions to maintain a degree of continuity in education.
Resource Global Impact of Funding Cuts on Children and their Protection in Humanitarian Contexts This briefing note is based on a data-gathering exercise led by the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action to understand the impact of humanitarian funding cuts on children and their protection. A global survey was completed by 250 child protection practitioners working in humanitarian settings across 55 countries.