Refugee Watch Online

A little more than a month ago, India celebrated her 70 th Independence Day. Whenever we talk of independence of India from British domi...

Cartoons published in the infamous French magazine, Charlie Hebdo , brought the complexities of representation and politics to the fore, i...

"2016, the Mediterranean is a mass grave," Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).  This calendar year has already been marked by se...

Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen Increasing efforts have been taken to incorporate displacement into the transitional justice agenda. It is an ack...

Shuvro Prosun Sarker The principal objective behind any research on statelessness in India should be to find out the communities/groups wi...

Ishita Dey It is important to highlight at the outset that social media is personal and public in nature. The personal status messages rang...

Priyanca Mathur Velath and Aparajita Das While the world is reeling under the increasing burden of the Syrian refugees, there is need to ...

Ishita Dey In this edition of Refugee Watch online, we want to move beyond the understanding of Partitioning of the Indian Sub of partitio...

Anuradha Gunarathne With the theme of 2012 “Refugees have no choice. You do” the World Refugee Day was celebrated in June by the UNHCR and...

Priyanca Mathur Velath The current issue of RWO draws our attention to rights against exclusion and homelessness through the lens of ...

Ishita Dey and Sahana Basavapatna How does one assess the achievements of the last 60 years of the functioning of refugee protection regime?...

Sahana Basavapatna and Ishita Dey As we wind up 2011 edition of Refugee Watch Online (RWO), we at RWO realize that this year, like the years...

Sahana Basavapatna and Ishita Dey [Sahana Basavapatna is a lawyer, practicing in the Delhi High Court in the areas of intellectual property ...

July 2011 (This edition has been compiled by Anuradha Gunarathne) Introduction Ishita Dey In the July edition of Refugee Watch...

In this issue of the Refugee Watch Online, we decided not to focus on the experience of any particular country. Instead, the accent in this ...

Sahana Basavapatna [Lawyer, New Delhi] The question of a legal framework for refugee care in South Asia has long occupied academics, activi...

Geetisha Dasgupta [is a graduate student at the SUNY, Binghamton] A researcher of forced migration is continually plagued by concerns like t...

Priyanca Mathur Velath [a member of APRRN, IASFM and an alumni of the CRG Winter Course on Forced Migration, Velath is currently completing ...