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06/09/2014
Asylum Access and The Refugee Work Rights Coalition release Global Refugee Work Rigths Report
Asylum Access and the Refugee Work
Rights Coalition have recently released the publication, Global
Refugee Work Rights Report 2014: Taking the Movement from Theory to Practice. We reproduce hereafter the abstract of
this major paper (as posted on Asylum Access Refugee Work Rights blog).
The report examines the laws,
policies and practices for refugee work rights in 15 countries around the
globe (affecting a total of 30% of the world’s refugee population). The
reports' findings reveal that almost half of the 15 countries examined in the
report have a complete legal bar to refugee employment, and in the countries
where some legal right to work exists, significant de-facto barriers to
employment, like strict encampment, exorbitant permit fees or widespread
discrimination, undermine refugees’ ability to access lawful employment.
In simple terms, refugees’ work rights
are respected as the exception, not the rule.
The publication also calls upon
stakeholders – governments, UN agencies, civil society, refugee and local
communities – to take concrete steps to bring national employment laws and
policies around the world into line with international human rights and refugee
law standards. In doing so, the report (i) provides a breakdown of the right to
work under international law, which may be used by advocates to inform policy
makers of their legal commitments; (ii) an explanation of the economic
arguments in favor of granting refugees’ work rights, which may be used to
supplement legal arguments; and (iii) concrete recommendations for achieving
legal reform, and administrative and judicial support for work rights
domestically.
02/09/2014
Brochure on the right to work of refugees in Kenya (in French, Somali and Oromo)
The International Rescue Committee and the Refugee Consortium of Kenya have produced brochures to inform refugees residing in Kenya of their right to work. This brochure perfectly illustrates the need for awareness campaigns to inform refugees of their rights.
Right to Work Brochures
Refugees' Right to work is vital to individual dignity said Kenyan High Court (July 2013)
We reproduce hereafter an extract of the first High Court ruling (26 july 2013) quashing the Kenyan government directive planning to send urban refugees living in Nairobi into refugee camps. This extracts recalls that the right to work of urban refugees contributes to human dignity and allows for self-sufficiency of refugees.
Right to dignity
The petitioners and other refugees have established roots in the country and are productive residents and if the policy is implemented they will be uprooted from their homes and neighbourhoods in what is intended to be a security operation.
The petitioners and other refugees have established roots in the country and are productive residents and if the policy is implemented they will be uprooted from their homes and neighbourhoods in what is intended to be a security operation.
Kenya: decades of integration efforts by refugees at stake
We would like to reproduce an article by James Stapelton, International
coordinator at the Jesuit Refugee Service and Professor of Human Rights
published in June 2014 on the situation of urban refugees in Kenya
(see also our previous post on the same topic: Unlawful Refugees' transfer to violate human rights dating 22/01/2013).
The right to work and live a decent life of self- sufficient urban
refugees is again at stake in Kenya...
JRS | KENYA: DES DÉCADES D’INTÉGRATION DES RÉFUGIÉS MISES À MAL, publié le 20 août 2014
22/01/2013
Unlawful refugees' transfer plan in Kenya to violate human rights
The Kenyan authorities should halt their plan to forcibly move 55,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers from cities to overcrowded and under serviced refugee camps, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. Citing a number of grenade attacks in 2012, the authorities contend the move will improve Kenyan national security and lead to the return of Somali refugees to Somalia.
The plan would violate refugees’ free movement rights and would almost certainly involve the unlawful forced eviction of tens of thousands of refugees from their lodgings in the cities, Human Rights Watch said. The longstanding humanitarian crisis in Kenya’s refugee camps also means the relocation would affect refugees’ ability to make a living and unlawfully reduce their access to adequate food, clothing, housing, health care and education.
15/12/2012
Refugee Livelihood and the Humanitarian Innovation project
The Forced Migration Current Awareness blog has brought to our attention the Humanitarian Innovation Project (HIP) website where we found the following excerpts:
“It is unacceptable that many refugees are left indefinitely dependent on international assistance, deprived of the right to work or freedom of movement. By developing a bottom-up approach to humanitarian innovation, the Humanitarian Innovation Projects aims to support sustainable, market-based solutions that build upon refugees’ own skills, aspirations and entrepreneurship” declared Alexander Betts, director of the Humanitarian Innovation Project.
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