Pakistan coercion, UN complicity : the mass forced return of Afghan refugees /
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Author / Creator: | Simpson, Gerald, author. |
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Imprint: | [New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2017]. |
Description: | 1 online resource : color illustations, color map, color photographs. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11008306 |
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Pakistan coercion, UN complicity : the mass forced return of Afghan refugees. |
Table of Contents:
- Summary
- Key Recommendations: To the Pakistani Government
- To the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- To the Humanitarian Country Teams in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- To Donor Governments, including European Union Member States, Providing Support to Pakistan
- To European Union Member States
- Methodology
- I. Background: Pakistan's Refugee-Hosting History: Pakistani Police Abuses in 2015
- II. Pakistan's Mass Refoulement of Afghan Refugees: International Law Prohibiting Forced Return to Harm
- Coercive Factors Driving Out Afghan Refugees: Police Extortion, Arbitrary Detention and Destruction of Refugee Cards
- Increasingly Insecure Legal Status and Deportation Threats
- Police Raids
- Closure of Afghan Refugee Schools and Exclusion of Afghan Refugee Children from Pakistani Schools
- Police Theft and Unlawful Use of Force
- Other Factors Driving Out Afghans: Cash Grant
- Hostility from Pakistani Communities
- Government Announcements Directing Pakistanis Not to Rent to Afghans and Increased Rent
- Afghan Officials Promising Land for Returnees
- New Regulations Governing Afghans' Cross-Border Movements
- Relatives Leaving
- III. Forced Return of Refugees among Undocumented Afghans in Pakistan: Undocumented Afghans in Pakistan
- Undocumented Afghans Returning to Afghanistan after June 2016
- Likely Refugees among Undocumented Afghans Unable to Obtain Protection
- IV. UNHCR's Response to Pakistan's Mass Refoulement: Supporting the Voluntary Repatriation of Afghan Refugees from Pakistan
- UNHCR's Response to Decreasing Refugee Return
- Doubling the Cash Grant to Returning Refugees
- UNHCR's Complicity in Mass Forced Refugee Return in the Second Half of 2016: UNHCR Rules on Voluntary Return
- UNHCR's Failure to Criticize Pakistan's Coerced Refugee Return
- UNHCR's Promotion of Involuntary Refugee Return
- Failure of Humanitarian Country Teams and Other UN Agencies to Criticize Pakistan
- Risk of Further UNHCR Complicity in Refoulement in 2017
- V. The Situation Returnees Face in Afghanistan: Returning Refugees Becoming Internally Displaced Persons
- Humanitarian Response to Needs of Returnees
- VI. The European Union's Response to the Afghan Refugee Crisis: Increasing Rejection of Afghan Asylum Seekers
- Plans to Increase Deportations of Rejected Asylum Seekers
- Risk of Increased Deportations Fueling Instability
- VII. Detailed Recommendations: To the Pakistani Government
- To the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- To the Humanitarian Country Teams in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- To Donor Governments, including EU Member States, Providing Support to Pakistan
- To European Union Member States
- Acknowledgements.