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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Introduction : First Edition of Refugee Watch Online, 2013

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

Supreme Court Promises to Look into Citizenship Rights or Refugee Status to Thousands of Displaced in Assam

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In an article in Outlook India, Supreme Court reportedly “agreed to examine the plea for grant of citizenship or refugee status to thousand...

Right to Return for Bru Displacees

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In the first edition of Refugee Watch Online we had published an interview with representatives from Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum w...

Stateless People

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Despite the September 2011 agreement on protocol of exchange concerning 51000 people in 162 enclaves between India and Bangladesh, there h...

Being Minority, Being Migrant: A Note on the Muslims of West Bengal, 1947-1950

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Anwesha Sengupta On August 15, 1947 Calcutta and West Bengal was in a festive mood. Slogans like Bande Mataram, Jai Hind, Hindu-Musalman e...

The Inhabitants of Bangladeshi Chhitmahals in India

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Atig Ghosh Approximately 200 Indo-Bangladesh enclaves, which are sprinkled along the international border of Rajshahi state, Bangladesh, a...

Partitioned Lives: Reading Narendranath Mitra’s Jaiba

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by Tista Das There is a problem that is associated with the word ‘violence’. One can never be quite sure as to what constitutes violence. ...

Nair, Neeti. Changing Homeland: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India, Harvard University Press 2011, pp 1- 343

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by Sohini Majumdar In this book, Neeti Nair questions the teleological assumptions about the inevitability of partition that mark a domina...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Introduction for the III Edition, 2012

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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...

Protection of Rohingya Refugees: Bangladesh Rejects International Appeals

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Bangladesh continued to “push back” the Rohingyas feeling sectarian violence in the Northern Rakhine State of Myanmar ruling out appeals fr...

Obama Holts Deportation of Young “Illegal Immigrants”

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President Barack Obama’s administration has announced a policy directive on 15 June 2012 which is to halt deportation of young immigrants, ...

Rights of a Refugee. The Court as Refuge

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Arani Sanyal and Anwesha Sengupta Say this city has a million souls, Some live in mansions, some live in holes: Yet there is no place fo...

Bangladesh’s Obligation for the Protection of Refugees

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Srabani Mia [Is an LL.M. Student at Stamford University Bangladesh and an Intern at the South Asian Institute of Advanced Legal and Human R...

Opinion: South Asian Framework for Refugee Protection

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Emdadul Haque [Is a Faculty Member at the Department of Law and Justice, Southeast University, Dhaka, Bangladesh] Amid scores of shortcomi...

4th Asia Pacific Consultation on Refugee Rights (APCRR4), from August 22-24th, 2012

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This event will be hosted by the Asia Pacific Refugee Right Network(APRRN), Human Asia, the Graduate School of International Studies of Kor...

Review of The Plight of the Stateless Rohingyas: Responses of the State: Society & the International Community, Edited by Imitiaz Ahamed

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Priyanca Mathur Velath The month of June traditionally celebrates World Refugee Day. However the month of June in 2012 brought back intern...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Introduction to II Edition, 2012

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

Pending Questions: UNHCR Recommendations Rgarding the Cessation Clause for Rwandan Refugees

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Guillaume Cliche-Rivard The 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees defines that the refugee status is temporary. Articles...