Jesuit Refugee Service

Dispatches No. 274 - 29 January 2009

Chad: efficient and flexible approach leads to significant improvements

Despite the serious security concerns, 2009 saw significant strides in the delivery of services to Sudanese refugees, internally displaced persons and local Chadians in the east of the country. At the end of the year, JRS Chad was operating eight programmes in 12 refugee camps and other sites for internally displaced persons.
 [29/01/10]

  

News:

Statements : USA: renewing hope, seeking justice

On 15 December, JRS USA welcomed the introduction of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR ASAP) as a first step in providing a solution to fix our broken immigration system.
 [15/12/09]

Other news:

Statements : Latinoamérica y El Caribe: Las dificultades en el acceso a la documentación [18/12/09]

Reports : Uganda: reintegration of child soldiers requires expertise and commitment [29/01/10]

Alerts : Haiti: voices after the earthquake zone [15/01/10]

  

Publications:

JRS leaflet: Flee for your life and risk imprisonment without crime

Leaflet cover For over 20 years JRS has been serving, accompanying, and defending the rights of, refugees held in detention. JRS staff around the world - in Europe, the US, South Asia, Asia Pacific, Southern Africa, Eastern Africa and in the Caribbean - visit people in detention who have not been charged with, or convicted of, any crime. These people have been deprived of their liberty simply for entering or remaining in a country or moving without authorisation. JRS is concerned about the inadequate conditions in which refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are being held in detention and about their lack of access to proper procedures. [19/06/06]

Other publications:

GOD IN EXILE: Towards a Shared Spirituality with Refugees [01/10/05]

JRS Leaflet: Forced Home by Food Cuts [01/01/06]

THE WOUND OF THE BORDER: 25 Years with the Refugees [01/10/05]

 
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:15:55 UTC