scholarly journals Malaysia’s Policy towards the Rohingya Refugees (Polisi Malaysia terhadap pelarian Rohingya)

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-453
Author(s):  
Nur Syazwani Muzafarkamal ◽  
Ishtiaq Hossain
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
To Come

This paper focuses on Malaysia’s policy towards the Rohingya refugees in the country. The first part of this paper analyses the reasons for the Rohingyas to choose to come to Malaysia. The next part discusses the Immigration Act 1967 as part and parcel of any adopted policy. Interviews and related documents have been used to guide this research in order to achieve this objective. Finally, the last part explains the perceptions of government agencies, as well as the NGOs towards the arrival of the Rohingya to Malaysia. In addition, the role of the UNHCR in Malaysia is elaborated. Keywords: Rohingya immigrants, Immigration Act 1967, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Non-governmental Organizations. Abstrak Kajian ini memberi tumpuan kepada polisi Malaysia terhadap pelarian Rohingya di negara tersebut. Ianya terbahagi kepada empat bahagian. Bahagian yang pertama untuk jilid ini mengkaji sebab-sebab pelarian Rohingya memilih untuk datang ke Malaysia. Bahagian seterusnya membincangkan Akta Imigresen 1967 sebagai sebahagian daripada polisi yang telah diambil. Temu bual dan dokumen-dokumen yang berkaitan telah digunakan sebagai rujukan di dalam kajian ini supaya dapat menemui objektifnya. Akhir sekali, bahagian yang terakhir menerangkan mengenai tanggapan agensi kerajaam dan juga ahli Pertubuhan Bukan Kerajaan terhadap kedatangan pelarian Rohingya ke Malaysia. Sebagai tambahan, peranan Pesuruhjaya Tinggi Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu untuk Pelarian di Malaysia juga akan dihuraikan. Kata Kunci: Pendatang Rohingya, Akta Imigresen 1967, Pesuruhjaya Tinggi Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu untuk Pelarian, Pertubuhan Bukan Kerajaan.  

From words to action

1993 ◽  
Vol 33 (296) ◽  
pp. 355-358
Author(s):  
Yves Sandoz
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
To Come ◽  
War Victims

Eight hundred and fifteen delegates from 160 States, 39 Ministers, 20 Deputy Ministers and 12 Secretaries of State, the United Nations Secretary-General, the High Commissioner for Refugees and the Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement represented by the Presidents of the ICRC and the Federation and the Chairman of the Standing Commission, and all the major governmental and non-governmental organizations active in the sphere of armed conflict the Swiss government succeeded within the space of a few months in arranging for all these to come together in Geneva for a three-day meeting to discuss the protection of war victims and adopt a substantive declaration on the issue. The International Conference for the Protection of War Victims was undeniably a success.

scholarly journals Article 1: Definition of a Child

2022 ◽  
pp. 407-412
Author(s):  
Gerison Lansdown ◽  
Ziba Vaghri
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Human Being ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
To Come ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Polish Government

AbstractWhile all international human rights treaties apply to children, only the Convention explicitly elaborates who is defined as a child. Article 1 defines the child as a human being who is below the age of 18 years. Majority is set at age 18 unless, under domestic law, it is attained earlier. During the negotiations of the text of the Convention, there was significant debate regarding definitions of both the commencement and the ending of childhood. The initial text, proposed by the Polish Government, drawing on Principle 1 of the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child, 1959, provided no definition of childhood at all (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Rädda barnen (Society: Sweden), 2007, p. 301). However, government delegates on the Working Group immediately highlighted the need for clarification. The first revision of the text therefore proposed that a child is a human being from birth to the age of 18 years unless majority is attained earlier. However, with regard to the beginning of childhood, the Working Group were unable to come to a consensus. An unresolvable division persisted on whether childhood, in respect of the Convention, commenced from the point of conception, or from birth (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Rädda barnen (Society: Sweden), 2007, pp. 301–313). The conflict was ultimately resolved by removing any reference to the start of childhood.

‘Perfect Vision’: An Examination of the Role of Census and Profiling Practices in Visualizing and Crafting Refugee ‘Groups’ under Contemporary Group-resettlement Programmes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Christian Batarseh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Identity Fraud ◽  
United Nations High Commissioner ◽  
Group Processing ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Boundary Making

Abstract This article demonstrates how the characteristically visual practices of boundary-making around prospective refugee groups comprise an important and instrumentalized version of what Rogers Brubaker (2004) calls ‘groupism’—the assumption that ‘discrete, sharply differentiated, internally homogeneous and externally bounded groups’ are the ‘basic constituents of social life’ (2004: 8). Unlike individual resettlement, group-resettlement schemes (known as ‘Group Processing’ in Canada, ‘Priority-2 group referrals’ in the United States and the ‘Group Methodology’ at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)) involve the resettlement of entire refugee groups. Preoccupations with security and the possibility of identity fraud in these programmes have led to a preference for what are perceived as easily identifiable, finite and homogenous refugee groups. Census and profiling practices permit authorities to visualize and draw boundaries around these types of groups. These practices are the preconditions for the writing of specific narratives of risk, persecution and flight in UNHCR group profiles. An examination of group resettlement reveals how officials do not just choose between pre-existing refugee groups based on racial, national and ethnic categories, but rather attempt to construct an idealized conception of groups reflected in Brubaker’s notion of groupism.

scholarly journals Refugee Repatriation and the Problem of Consent

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mollie Gerver
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
The Past ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Existing Data

Over the past decade, millions of refugees have fled their countries of origin and asked for asylum abroad. Some of these refugees do not receive asylum, but are not deported. Instead they are detained, or denied basic rights of residency, some forced into enclosed camps. Hoping to escape such conditions, they wish to return to unsafe countries, and ask for help from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In such cases, should NGOs and the UN assist refugees to return? Drawing on original data gathered in South Sudan, and existing data from around the world, I argue that they should assist with return if certain conditions are met. First, the UN and NGOs must try to put an end to coercive conditions before helping with return. Secondly, helping with return must not encourage the government to expand the use of coercive policies to encourage more to return. Finally, NGOs and the UN must ensure that refugees are fully informed of the risks of returning. Organizations must either conduct research in countries of origin or lobby the government to allow refugees to visit their countries of origin before making a final decision.

scholarly journals ASSESSING INCOME GENERATION ACTIVITIES IN WEST AND CENTRAL DARFUR STATES

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
Badreldin Mohamed Ahmed Abdulrahman ◽  
Tarig Ibrahim Mohamed Abdelmalik
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Income Generation ◽  
Alternative Source ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

Income defines as the money that an individual or business receives in exchange for providing a good or service or through investing capital and it is consume to fuel day to day expenditure. This study has been conducted in 2014. The objective of this study is to assess income generation activities in Darfur, particularly in Geneina and Zalingei localities of West and Central Darfur (WCD) by using questionnaire its size 80 individuals, we obtained the following results a. Agriculture is the main and alternative source of income in WCD b. Financing is the main problem in WCD c. The role of National and local government and united nations (UN) agencies in generating income is less than that played by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs).

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