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Refugees Magazine Issue 100 (Refugee women) - Outside, looking in
1 Jun 1995 After generations of living on the fringes, Guatemalan women began standing up for their rights while living as refugees in Mexico. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 100 (Refugee women) - Do we really care?
1 Jun 1995 UNHCR started trying to improve its protection and assistance for women refugees a decade ago. One of the main obstacles has been entrenched attitudes within the organization. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 100 (Refugee women) - The difficulty of educating Leyla
1 Jun 1995 In the struggle to educate Afghan refugee women and girls, some approaches work better than others. And the result remains unacceptable: most never attend school. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 100 (Refugee women) - Refugees, feminine plural
1 Jun 1995 The special needs of women, ranging from prevention of rape to the provision of sanitary towels, are all too often overlooked in vast, sprawling refugee camps. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 100 (Refugee women) - Strategy for survival
1 Jun 1995 A recent study of Southeast Asian refugees who were resettled in Canada challenges many preconceptions about the extent to which refugees depend on the state. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 99 (Regional solutions) - Final act: closing down the CPA
1 Mar 1995 The Comprehensive Plan of Action was as vast and unprecedented as the boat-people exodus that spawned it. Now 41,000 screened-out Vietnamese and Laotians must head home by the end of 1995. (Editor's note: This issue of Refugees focuses on the growing international trend toward comprehensive or regional solutions to refugee problems. This topic is also examined in UNHCR's biennial report, The State of the World's Refugees: The Search for Solutions, published by Oxford University Press in November 1995.) -
Refugees Magazine Issue 99 (Regional solutions) - The Cartagena Declaration: a decade of progress
1 Mar 1995 Ten years after negotiators laid out the basis for Latin America's innovative and generous Cartagena Declaration, U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Gerald Walzer analyzes the enduring significance of their work. (Editor's note: This issue of Refugees focuses on the growing international trend toward comprehensive or regional solutions to refugee problems. This topic is also examined in UNHCR's biennial report, The State of the World's Refugees: The Search for Solutions, published by Oxford University Press in November 1995.) -
Refugees Magazine Issue 99 (Regional solutions) - Package deals
1 Mar 1995 From Central America to Liberia, Indo-China and the Great Lakes, regional and comprehensive responses may be the only possible solution to the complexity and magnitude of today's refugee problems. Editor's note: This issue of Refugees focuses on the growing international trend toward comprehensive or regional solutions to refugee problems. This topic is also examined in UNHCR's biennial report, The State of the World's Refugees: The Search for Solutions, published by Oxford University Press in November 1995. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 99 (Regional solutions) - A volatile ethnic mix
1 Mar 1995 The war in Chechnya underscores the urgency of international efforts to set out a comprehensive approach to the problems of refugees and displaced people in the former Soviet Union and the Baltic states. (Editor's note: This issue of Refugees focuses on the growing international trend toward comprehensive or regional solutions to refugee problems. This topic is also examined in UNHCR's biennial report, The State of the World's Refugees: The Search for Solutions, published by Oxford University Press in November 1995.)