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Centro de Documentación. Boletín nº 40-2015
20/11/2015
INFORMES REALIZADO POR ORGANIZACIONES DE
DERECHOS HUMANOS.
Para poder acceder al informe, hacer clic en aceptar en la pestaña que
aparece al pinchar en el link.
CEAR-EUSKADI Y EL INSTITUTO DE DERECHOS HUMANOS PEDRO
ARRUPE DE DEUSTO
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El Instituto de Derechos Humanos Pedro Arrupe ha editado un trabajo de
CEAR-Euskadi en su colección de Cuadernos Deusto de Derechos Humanos:
¿Migración o desplazamiento forzado? Las causas de los movimientos de
población a debate.
Esta obra aborda la caracterización de los movimientos de población que se
están produciendo en el contexto actual de capitalismo neoliberal y crisis
ecológica. Se analizan las consecuencias de la violación de los derechos
económicos, sociales y culturales y las nuevas realidades vinculadas al despojo
de los recursos. Se examinan los conceptos presentes en los instrumentos de
protección del Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos y se ofrecen
conclusiones para la construcción de una categoría a medio camino entre la
migración económica y el asilo: el desplazamiento forzado.
Este estudio ha sido elaborado por Raquel Celis Sánchez, coordinadora del
equipo de Incidencia y Participación Social de CEAR-Euskadi y el sociólogo
Xabier Aierdi Urraza, fundador de Ikuspegi, con la colaboración de muchas
otras personas de Colombia y del estado español que han compartido sus
experiencias y conocimientos sobre la defensa del territorio y de los derechos
humanos de las personas migrantes, refugiadas y desplazadas.
Esta investigación ha sido financiada por la Agencia Vasca de Cooperación para
el Desarrollo.
http://cear-euskadi.org/desca/?page_id=538
AMNISTÍA INTERNACIONAL
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República Dominicana: “Sin papeles no soy nadie: Personas apátridas en la
República Dominicana. (19/11/2015). Index number: AMR 27/2755/2015. Una
sentencia de 2013 del Tribunal Constitucional (Sentencia 168-13) ha convertido
la apatridia en una cuestión jurídica para varias generaciones de dominicanos y
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dominicanas de ascendencia extranjera. El presente informe muestra la situación
de apatridia en la que continúan varios grupos de personas –en su mayoría de
ascendencia haitiana– que viven en el país. En la República Dominicana, a las
personas que son apátridas y carecen de documentación de identidad se les
niegan una serie de derechos humanos y se les impide participar plenamente en
la sociedad.
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/AMR2727552015SPANISH.PD
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Slovenia: Submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination (88th session, 23 November – 11 December 2015).
(18/11/2015). Index number: EUR 68/2899/2015. Amnesty International is
submitting this briefing in advance of the Eighty-eighth session of the
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, in which it provides
information relevant to the examination of the State party report on Slovenia and
evaluates the situation of ethnic and national minorities, particularly the Roma
and non-citizens (specifically the “erased”). Amnesty International demonstrates
that the government has failed to adequately address the Committee’s concerns
and recommendations in these areas from its last examination of Slovenia in
2010 and notes with concern that the legal and institutional human rights
framework is not effective in upholding the right to non-discrimination, or
providing effective remedies for its violation.
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/EUR6828992015ENGLISH.pdf
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Miedo y vallas: Los planteamientos de Europa para contener a las personas
refugiadas. (17/11/2015). Index number: EUR 03/2544/2015. En lo que se ha
convertido en la peor crisis global de refugiados desde el final de la Segunda
Guerra Mundial, Europa ha visto, a lo largo de 2015, cómo llegaba a sus costas,
de manera irregular, un número sin precedentes de personas.
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/EUR0325442015SPANISH.PD
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
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“What Are You Doing Here?” Police Abuses Against Afghans in Pakistan.
(18/11/2015). This 37 page report documents myriad rights violations against
Afghans in Pakistan since December 2014. The Pakistani government is
obligated to ensure that all law enforcement and other government officials treat
Afghans living in Pakistan with dignity and respect for their human rights in
compliance with domestic and international law. Ending police abuses and
ensuring that Afghans are treated fairly should be a first step towards
formulating a viable legal framework to manage the Afghan population in
Pakistan.
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/pakistan1115_4up.pdf
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INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
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Kenya’s Somali North East: Devolution and Security. (17/11/2015). Africa
Briefing N°114. Devolved government in Kenya’s newly formed north-eastern
counties, designed to address decades of political marginalisation and
underdevelopment, has been undermined by dominant clans monopolising
power and growing corruption. Violent clan competition and antipathy between
elected county elites and the remaining national administrative structures have
allowed the violently extremist Al-Shabaab movement to expand and operate
with relative impunity across large areas of the North East. Its attacks exposed
security-service disarray and caused a sharp reversal of already stretched state
services in this vast and poor region that shares a porous 680km border with
Somalia. To end the violence and capitalise on devolution’s potential, county
elites must be more inclusive of minorities, cooperate across local boundaries
for inter-county peace and recognise the continued role for neutral national
institutions. National government should recognise where pragmatism can trump
convention and back new security approaches that combine national and county
responses.
http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/africa/horn-of-africa/kenya/b114kenya-s-somali-north-east-devolution-and-security.pdf
COMITÉ EUROPEO PARA LA PREVENCIÓN DE LA TORTURA (CPT)
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Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Gibraltar.
(19/11/2015). The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture
and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) published today the
report on its November 2014 visit to the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar,
together with the Government of Gibraltar’s response as submitted by the
Government of the United Kingdom.
http://www.cpt.coe.int/documents/gbr/2015-40-inf-eng.pdf
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Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Ireland.
(17/11/2015). The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture
(CPT) has today published a report on its sixth periodic visit to Ireland, which
took place from16 to 26 September 2014, together with the response of the Irish
Government. Both documents have been made public at the request of the Irish
authorities.
http://www.cpt.coe.int/documents/irl/2015-38-inf-eng.pdf
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Council of Europe anti-torture Committee publishes report on Bulgaria.
(12/11/2015). The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture
and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) published today the
report on its most recent visit to Bulgaria (13 to 20 February 2015), together
with the response of the Bulgarian authorities.
http://www.cpt.coe.int/documents/bgr/2015-36-inf-eng.pdf
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EUROPEAN UNION AGENCY FOR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS (FRA)
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Handbook on European law relating to the rights of the child. (Noviembre
2015). Children are full-fledged holders of rights. They are beneficiaries of all
human and fundamental rights and subjects of special regulations, given their
specific characteristics. This handbook aims to illustrate how European law and
case law accommodate the specific interests and needs of children.
http://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-ecthr-2015-handbookeuropean-law-rights-of-the-child_en.pdf
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Surveillance by intelligence services: fundamental rights safeguards and
remedies in the EU. (Noviembre 2015). This report, drafted in response to the
European Parliament’s call for thorough research on fundamental rights
protection in the context of surveillance, maps and analyses the legal
frameworks on surveillance in place in EU Member States.
http://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-2015-surveillanceintelligence-services_en.pdf
FIDH
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Demystifying Human Rights Protection in Asia. (19/11/2015). From the start,
any critical analysis of human rights protection in Asia has to contend with
semantics. Circumscribing the Asian continent is not simple because of the
variations in boundaries across time,1 and the fact that people in positions of
authority as well as social groups have not been inclined to regard the continent
as a coherent geographical whole; moreover, the addition of human rights to the
equation further exposes the analysis of human rights protection in Asia to a
series of opposing forces – among which the tension between universalism and
relativism plays a central role.
https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/asie669anglaisbassdef.pdf
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION (IOM)
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Europe/Mediterranean - Migration Crisis Response Situation Report.
(19/11/2015).
http://www.iom.int/sites/default/files/situation_reports/file/IOM-Europe-MedMigration-Response-Sitrep-19-Nov-2015.pdf
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Iraq - Crisis Response. (15/11/2015). Situation Report 27, 15 October 2015 15 November. Armed conflict continues to cause displacement in various areas
of Iraq. IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) has identified 533,773
displaced families since the onset of the crisis in January 2014. However, as
displacement continues, there is an increasing trend of Iraqis returning to their
areas of origin.
http://www.iom.int/sites/default/files/situation_reports/file/IOM-Iraq-CrisisResponse-15-November-2015.pdf
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REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL
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“You Are Either With Us or Against Us": Persecution and Displacement in
Burundi. (18/11/2015). Since April 2015, Burundi has been descending into
chaos, forcing more than 200,000 civilians to flee to neighboring countries. But
these well-documented refugee flows are only part of a larger, more disturbing
story. The impunity and targeted persecution that exists in Burundi today has
resulted in the internal displacement of untold thousands of Burundians, with
some in hiding and too scared to even seek humanitarian assistance. Some of
these displaced are trapped inside their own country, unable to leave because of
abusive government agents and armed militias along the country’s borders.
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/506c8ea1e4b01d9450dd53f5/t/564bf6e9e4b
0b8eacea88098/1447819007352/Persecution+and+Displacement+in+Burundi
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Malaysia: Rohingya Refugees Hope for Little and Receive Less.
(17/11/2015). It’s been six months since as many as 1,000 Rohingya fleeing
from Myanmar died in the Andaman Sea. And still, neighboring nations remain
resistant to recognizing the Rohingya people’s rights as refugees. Even after
neighboring governments met earlier this year and agreed to protect the
Rohingya at sea, no nation has taken a leadership role in permitting them to
disembark from boats safely and legally. The absence of a regional plan leaves
the Rohingya vulnerable to the challenges of a perilous sea voyage, and further
strands those Rohingya who have lived in Malaysia and other regional nations
for up to three generations without legal rights or protection.
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/506c8ea1e4b01d9450dd53f5/t/564a7be4e4
b06eb2db984987/1447722996779/Malaysia%3A+Rohingya+refugees.pdf
RELIEFWEB
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Sudan: Humanitarian Bulletin Issue 46. (Report from OCHA). (15/11/2015).
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/OCHA_Sudan_Weekly_Hu
manitarian_Bulletin_Issue_46_%289_-_15_November_2015%29.pdf
ECRE
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AIDA Update Ireland: proposed asylum reform fails to squarely address
Direct Provision. (12/11/2015). The updated AIDA report on Ireland provides
information on the reform of the protection system, on the basis of the General
Scheme of the International Protection Bill presented in March 2015. The text of
the bill is due to be published in the coming days. Amongst other changes the
draft International Protection Bill proposes a single asylum procedure to replace
the existing multi-layered system as well as abolishing the independent Office of
the Refugee Applications Commissioner and subsuming it within the
Department of Justice and Equality.
http://www.asylumineurope.org/sites/default/files/reportdownload/aida_ie_update.iv__0.pdf
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UNRWA
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Gaza situation report 119. (20/11/2015). On 16 November an AdCom special
session was held on Gaza 2020, including a panel discussion involving the
Director of UNRWA Operations in Gaza, Mr. Bo Schack, the Water Sector
Advisor at the Office of the Quartet, Mr. Fuad Bateh, the Director of Women
Affairs Centre in Gaza, Amal Siyam as well as the Director of “PalThink” for
Strategic Studies, Mr. Omar Shaban. The panel made clear that without drastic
action, Gaza is at risk of being unliveable by 2020 and the daily lives of
Palestine refugees will be dramatically worse.
http://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/emergency-reports/gaza-situation-report-119
UNHCR/ACNUR
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Q&A: The challenges to ending displacement in Nigeria. (19/11/2015).
Violent clashes between Government forces and Boko Haram rebels in the north
of Nigeria have forced millions of civilians from their homes.
http://www.unhcr.org/564d8a429.html
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Asylum-seekers await application results at historic Berlin airport.
(17/11/2015). Berlin Tempelhof Airport provides temporary home to 2,000
asylum-seekers, including 500 children, as their claims are assessed.
http://www.unhcr.org/564ae4796.html
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UNHCR chief says it is "absolute nonsense" to blame refugees for terror.
(17/11/2015). UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said
today it was "absolute nonsense" to try to blame refugees for terror attacks,
stressing that they were its "first victims" and could not be held responsible for
what happened in Paris, Beirut and elsewhere.
http://www.unhcr.org/564b5b586.html
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Some 3,300 people a day still arriving on Lesvos. (13/11/2015). Despite
dangerous sea conditions and the approach of winter, the number of refugees
and migrants arriving each day remains high.
http://www.unhcr.org/5645eb7f9.html
IRIN
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Balkan countries impose "national segregation" at borders. (19/11/2015). At
least three countries on the Balkan route, the main thoroughfare for migrants and
refugees seeking to reach northern Europe from Greece, abruptly imposed new
border controls overnight, allowing only certain nationalities to progress.
http://www.irinnews.org/report/102228/balkan-countries-impose-nationalsegregation-at-borders
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How the refugee crisis is hurting foreign aid. (18/11/2015). Faced with the
arrival of record numbers of asylum seekers and shrinking levels of public
sympathy, more and more European countries are using their foreign aid budgets
to foot the bill of feeding and housing the newcomers.
http://www.irinnews.org/report/102225/how-the-refugee-crisis-is-hurtingforeign-aid
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Nigeria says ‘go home’, but is it safe from Boko Haram? (17/11/2015).
http://www.irinnews.org/report/102221/nigeria-says-go-home-but-is-it-safefrom-boko-haram
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Syrian refugees respond to their ‘worst nightmare’. (16/11/2015).
http://www.irinnews.org/report/102219/syrian-refugees-respond-to-their-worstnightmare
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