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26 Refugee Reports 1 (2005)

handle is hein.immigration/refgrpt0026 and id is 1 raw text is: D . A News Service of U.S. Committee for Refugees and Ihm Sefugee Reports VOLUME 26 SPECIAL EDITION Anti-Warehousing Work around the World The following is a round-up of just some of the efforts that faith communities, labor unions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), politicians, scholars, ordinary in- dividuals, and refugees themselves are making to win rights for refugees. This work focuses on freedom of move- ment and rights to earn livelihoods. Have you or your organization been doing similar work? Let us know! AUSTRALIA-Advocating and Educating for an End to Refugee Warehousing Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) discussed refugee warehousing as one of three non-durable solutions for managing refugees in the international protection frame- work in its February 2005 Intake Submission to the Australian Government. Non-durable solutions refers to those situations where refugees are unable to return to their country of origin, have no effective protection in the country of first asylum and little prospects of being selected for resettlement. According to RCOA, ware- housing is a very serious problem that has been neglected for too long. RCOA acknowledges that while camps are beneficial in the emergency phase of an exodus, in dis- tributing supplies and offering protection, they are a prob- lem when they become the permanent solution, and no steps are taken to resolve the initial crisis or provide the refugee with meaningful optio that despite awareness of the housing, and the Office of the for Refugees' (UNHCR) guide international community's fail warehousing has resulted in wa Warehousing has also precipita lutions, such as involuntary ret ary movement. The National Council of Chur passed an anti-warehousing sta ers of 13 of its 15 member d The NCCA endorsed the inter warehousing, and called on its end the practice. Its website h with information and links to o (www.ncca.org.au/cws/rdp/iss Also in July, the Uniting Chur own anti-warehousing resoluti INTERNATIONAL-Campaign Gr Since its launch in June of 200 communities and notable indi the Statement Calling for Sol IN THIS ISSUE: Lead Story Anti-Warehousing Work around the World ................. 1 Book Review The Content of Protection: Hathaway's Rights of Refugees under International Law ............................................... 11 Refugee Voices Interview with Pastor David Bolombe ....................... 14 Updates New Book on U.S. Refugee Resettlement Agencies and Volunteers ..................................................................... . . 15 Statistics Summary of U.S. Refugee Admissions (as of August 31, 2005) ................................................................................. . . 16 igranits ns. RCA goes on to to say problems caused by ware- e UN High Commissioner elines for addressing it, the ure to sufficiently combat sted lives in refugee camps. ited other non-durable so- urn and irregular second- ches in Australia (NCCA) tement signed by the lead- enominations on July 23. rnational campaign to end members to advocate to as a page on warehousing, ther sites on refugee rights. ies/warehousedrefugees) ch of Australia offered its on. Ows 4, nearly 300 NGOs, faith viduals have signed on to lutions to End the Ware-

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