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Centro de Documentación. Boletín nº 17-2016
06/05/2016
INFORMES REALIZADO POR ORGANIZACIONES DE
DERECHOS HUMANOS.
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AMNISTÍA INTERNACIONAL
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International Law Commission: Second Report on Crimes Against
Humanity: positive aspects and concerns. (05/05/2016). Index number: IOR
40/3606/2016. The concerns raised and recommendations made to the
International Law Commission in this document often restate past positions of
Amnesty International on international criminal law issues and relate to the six
new draft articles for a Convention on Crimes against Humanity proposed by the
Special Rapporteur. Amnesty International is planning to issue papers exposing
a more extensive analysis of the current and subsequent proposals made by the
Special Rapporteur.
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/IOR4036062016ENGLISH.pdf
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Togo: Human rights - a long way to go. (04/05/2016). Index number: AFR
57/3852/2016. Amnesty International Submission to the UN Universal Periodic
Review, October - November 2016.
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/AFR5738522016ENGLISH.PDF
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
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“The Nail That Sticks Out Gets Hammered Down”. LGBT Bullying and
Exclusion in Japanese Schools. (06/05/2016). The report, “„The Nail That
Sticks Out Gets Hammered Down‟: LGBT Bullying and Exclusion in Japanese
Schools,” examines the shortcomings in Japanese government policies that
expose LGBT students to bullying and inhibit access to information and selfexpression. Bullying is widespread and brutal in Japan‟s schools, yet
government policies addressing bullying do not specifically address LGBT
students, who are among the most vulnerable to bullying. Instead, the national
bullying prevention policy promotes social norms at the expense of basic rights.
LGBT students told Human Rights Watch that teachers have told them that by
being openly gay or transgender, they are being selfish and should expect not to
succeed in school.
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/japan0516web.pdf
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“Like Fish in Poisonous Waters”. Attacks on Media Freedom in Somalia.
(02/05/2016). The report, “„Like Fish in Poisonous Waters‟: Attacks on Media
Freedom in Somalia,” documents killings, threats, and arbitrary detention of
journalists since 2014. The Somali federal government and regional authorities
have used various abusive tactics to affect media coverage, including arrests and
forced closures of media outlets, threats, and occasionally, criminal charges. AlShabab has targeted journalists as part of its campaign against the Somali
government and for reporting deemed unfavorable. Government authorities have
failed to adequately investigate and prosecute those responsible for abuses,
leaving journalists to live in fear.
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/somalia0516web.pdf
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
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Boko Haram on the Back Foot? (04/05/2016). Boko Haram is losing ground,
resources and fighters. But defeating the group and preventing a future
insurgency needs more than military success. The 14 May summit in Abuja is an
opportunity for Nigeria and its Lake Chad basin neighbours to prepare and
implement what's been long overdue: a holistic response to the extremist group.
http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/africa/west-africa/nigeria/b120-bokoharam-on-the-back-foot.pdf

Tunisia: Transitional Justice and the Fight Against Corruption
(03/05/2016). Polarisation over transitional justice after the 2011 fall
of Tunisia‟s old regime is obstructing basic progress. Accounting for past
actions cannot include the early idea of “revolutionary justice”, but can become
a tool to reconcile citizens, tackle corruption and give the economy a much
needed new impetus.
http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/Middle%20East%20North%20Africa/
North%20Africa/Tunisia/168-tunisie-justice-transitionnelle-et-lutte-contre-lacorruption.pdf
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION (IOM)
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“If We Leave We Are Killed: Lessons Learned from South Sudan
Protection of Civilian Sites 2013-2016”. (05/05/2016). In December of 2013,
violent clashes erupted across South Sudan, displacing nearly 2.4 million people.
Fearing for their lives, thousands of civilians sought refuge at UN bases
throughout the country. The protection of civilian (PoC) areas within the bases
were not adequate to accommodate the tens of thousands of internally displaced
persons (IDPs) that arrived, and the UN and humanitarian actors struggled to
provide protection, food, shelter, medical and other assistance required at these
sites. As many as 200,000 IDPs continue to seek shelter in these UN PoC sites
as they flee the vicious civil war. Today, an independent report, “If We Leave
We Are Killed: Lessons Learned from South Sudan Protection of Civilian Sites
2013–2016,” was launched in Juba to take stock of the PoC response to date and
offer guidance for future action. The report, authored by Michael J. Arensen,
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was commissioned by IOM and the Swiss Agency for Development and
Cooperation.
https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/if_we_leave_0.pdf
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Egyptian Unaccompanied Migrant Children. A case study on irregular
migration. (29/04/2016). In a new report, the International Organisation for
Migration (IOM) analyses the specificities of irregular travel to Europe
undertaken by Egyptian unaccompanied minors. The report is based on a casestudy of a boat carrying 132 Egyptian unaccompanied minors directed towards
Italy, which was rescued off the Greek island of Crete in August 2015. IOM
interviewed the minors to assess their specific vulnerabilities and understand the
smuggling networks in relation to children.
https://publications.iom.int/system/files/egyptian_children.pdf
ODI
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Education Cannot Wait: a fund for education in emergencies. (04/05/2016).
75 million children aged 3-18 years, living in 35 crisis-affected countries, are in
desperate need of educational support. Education for these children has long
been neglected, but there is a growing recognition of its central importance.
Built on extensive consultation and dialogue among a range of stakeholders,
Education Cannot Wait is an education crisis fund designed to transform the
global education sector, including both humanitarian and development
responses. Launching at the World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016, the
platform aims to deliver a more collaborative, agile and rapid response to
education in emergencies in order to fulfil the right to education for children and
young people affected by crises. It is about both restoring hope to millions of
children and demonstrating that the governments who signed the 2030
Sustainable Development Goal pledge intend to keep their promise.
https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/resource-documents/10497.pdf
https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/resource-documents/10498.pdf
IDMC
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Quarterly Update January - March 2016. (04/05/2016). This Quarterly
Update covers the activities of the Geneva-based Internal Displacement
Monitoring Centre (IDMC) between 1 January and 31 March 2016.
http://www.internal-displacement.org/assets/publications/2016/IDMC-quarterlyupdate-2016-QU1.pdf
CONSEJO DE EUROPA
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State of Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law. A security
imperative for Europe. (27/04/2016). Human rights, democracy and security
are threatened across the continent, according to the latest annual report from the
Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland. “Europe is
currently struggling with many serious challenges, including terrorism,
migration and conflict. This is being successfully exploited by nationalists and
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populists in many places, and trust in national and European institutions is
dwindling,” said the Secretary General.
https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent
?documentId=0900001680646af8
WOMEN’S REFUGEE COMMISSION
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A Girl No More: The Changing Norms of Child Marriage in Conflict.
(Marzo 2016). Parents' decision to marry off their young daughters is influenced
by concerns about poverty, protection from rape and its stigma, prevention of
pregnancy outside marriage, and from the influence of other communities – all
issues exacerbated by displacement. Rather than solving these problems, child
marriage isolates girls from what opportunities exist. Nine of the top 10
countries with the highest rates of child marriage are fragile states. Yet married
girls are invisible in humanitarian programming. This research suggests that
when girls have access to education and other programming and when families
have their basic needs met, child marriage can be reduced.
https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/girls/resources/document/downloa
d/1311
EPIM
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Evaluation of EPIM III 2012-2015. (Abril 2016). In 2012, EPIM
commissioned RAND Europe to undertake an evaluation of EPIM‟s third
funding phase. The report “Evaluation of EPIM III: 2012-2015″ has now been
published. The report looks at the projects from civil society organisations
which EPIM supported between 2012 and 2015 and which aimed to influence
EU policies and their national implementation in three defined focus areas:
asylum seekers; undocumented migrants; and equality, integration and social
inclusion of vulnerable migrants.
http://www.epim.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FINAL_Evaluation-ofEPIM-III_RAND-Europe.pdf
UNHCR / ACNUR
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Workshop teaches Tuareg artisans new skills in exile. (04/05/2016). Taking a
sheaf of palm fronds in her hand, Tuareg artisan Bintou starts to weave a
decorative mat to be fixed on a newly designed desk lamp that may one day light
up homes in Europe and elsewhere.
http://www.unhcr.org/5729bc956.html
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Syrian refugee carries Olympic torch through Brasilia. (03/05/2016).
Flanked by cheering Brazilians, 12-year-old Syrian refugee Hanan Dacka held
the Olympic flame aloft and trotted with it through Brasilia at the start of a relay
across the host country in the run up to the Olympic Games in August.
http://www.unhcr.org/5728cd996.html
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Horrified shipwreck survivors watched as hundreds drowned. (02/05/2016).
All Yasin Osman Ibrahim and his three-year-old son Abdulrahman could do was
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watch in horror as more than 500 migrants and refugees drowned two weeks
ago, in one of the Mediterranean's worst shipwrecks in modern history.
http://www.unhcr.org/572753416.html
CLIMATE AND MIGRATION COALITION

Syria and climate change: did the media get it right? (29/04/2016). During
2015 the media started connecting climate change with the conflict in Syria and
subsequent refugee movements across Europe. Many reports were in direct
response to new research making this connection. Other reports mentioned this
research while examining other major events such as the drownings in the
Mediterranean, the refugee camp in Calais and the terrorist attacks in November
2015. But did those media reports accurately represent the research they
referenced?
https://climatemigration.atavist.com/syria-and-climate-change
ECRE
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Austrian Parliament approves law repudiating right to asylum.
(29/04/2016). On Wednesday 27 April, only a few weeks after the proposed
amendments to the Asylum Act were tabled, the Austrian Parliament approved
them with a 98 to 67 majority. Under the new law, the government can declare a
state of emergency in the case of a mass refugee influx, which could be a threat
to national security. Though it is not specified what would constitute an influx
big enough to trigger the application of the law, the state of emergency would
lead to an effective closure of the border and a denial of access to the asylum
procedure.
http://ecre.org/component/content/article/70-weekly-bulletin-articles/1468austrian-parliament-approves-law-repudiating-right-to-asylum.html
EL PAÍS
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28 muertos en un ataque aéreo a un campo de refugiados en Siria.
(06/05/2016). Un ataque aéreo perpetrado este jueves contra un campo de
desplazados internos por el conflicto sirio en la provincia de Idlib, cerca de la
frontera con Turquía, ha causado la muerte a 28 personas, según informaron a
fuentes de los Cascos Blancos, la organización de defensa civil que trabaja en las
zonas controladas por la oposición siria. Los refugiados golpeados por los
bombardeos habían huido de los combates en la zona de Alepo, donde este
jueves comenzó un alto el fuego de 48 horas.
http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/05/05/actualidad/1462469781
_410923.html
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La bicicleta europea. Bruselas se ha inventado la solidaridad obligatoria, en
vista de que la voluntaria no funciona. (04/05/2016). La bicicleta europea no
se cae. Está en el límite, es cierto. Pero una vez más, tarde y mal, un golpe de
pedal le permitirá mantener un equilibrio imposible. El último es la propuesta
aprobada este miércoles por la Comisión Europea, en forma de contribuciones
de solidaridad, que deberán hacer los países reticentes a la admisión de la cuota
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de refugiados que les corresponden según el reparto establecido por la misma
institución de la UE.
http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/05/04/actualidad/1462385343
_105846.html
EL DIARIO.ES

Así trata Australia a los refugiados en el criticado centro de Nauru.
(05/05/2016). Después de la inmolación de un refugiado iraní en protesta contra
las condiciones del centro, Acnur ha solicitado el envío inmediato de los
migrantes que Australia tiene detenidos en países del Pacífico Sur a otros
lugares con "condiciones humanas". La Comisión Australiana por los Derechos
Humanos ha condenado la situación de los niños detenidos y de los 167 bebés
sin Estado que han nacido estos últimos años entre rejas.
http://www.eldiario.es/desalambre/Neuru-campo-refugiadosAustralia_0_512698951.html
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La Comisión Europea concede al Gobierno turco la recompensa que
esperaba por el pacto sobre refugiados. (04/05/2016). La Comisión Europea
ha presentado este miércoles una propuesta para permitir a los turcos entrar en la
Unión Europea sin visado. Bruselas da su visto bueno a la medida, uno de los
requisitos del pacto de la UE y Turquía sobre refugiados, a pesar de que el país
asiático no cumple todos los mínimos exigidos por Europa para este trámite.
http://www.eldiario.es/desalambre/Comision-Europea-propone-eliminarciudadanos_0_512349328.html
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"No quería venir a Europa, pero al llegar a Libia no hay vuelta atrás".
(03/05/2016). El centro de acogida de migrantes y refugiados de Lampedusa se
encuentra al doble de su capacidad tras la llegada de más de 500 personas en la
última semana. 976 personas han desaparecido este año en la ruta del
Mediterráneo Central, según la Organización Internacional de las Migraciones.
http://www.eldiario.es/desalambre/Lampedusa_0_511998976.html
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Carpetazo definitivo al caso contra los guardias civiles que apalearon a un
migrante en Melilla. (03/05/2016). La Audiencia Provincial de Málaga ha
archivado definitivamente la causa contra los ocho guardias civiles que fueron
imputados por su actuación durante un salto a la valla de Melilla el 15 de
octubre de 2014.
http://www.eldiario.es/desalambre/Carpetazo-definitivo-investigacion-GuardiaCivil_0_511999486.html
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Más de 88.000 menores pidieron asilo en Europa en 2015 aunque solo 25
solicitaron ir a España. (02/05/2016). Casi 90.000 menores pidieron asilo en
Europa en 2015. El número prácticamente multiplica por cuatro la cantidad
registrada un año antes por la Oficina Estadística Europea (Eurostat). La media
entre 2008 y 2013 el número de niños que pedía un asilo no había superado los
13.000.
http://www.eldiario.es/desalambre/numero-menores-pidio-europeacuadriplico_0_511649011.html
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Refugiados sirios en América Latina: un futuro más allá de Europa.
(01/05/2016). Desde que comenzó el conflicto armado en 2011, al menos 5.413
han optado por iniciar una nueva vida en la región. La gran mayoría de ellos, el
87%, decidió solicitar refugio en Brasil, país que ha concedido más de 8.000
visados humanitarios. El viaje desde Siria hasta Ecuador cuesta alrededor de
2.000 euros, mientras que viajar a Europa a través del mar supone un gasto
aproximado de 4.000 euros.
http://www.eldiario.es/desalambre/Refugiados-America-Latina-futuroEuropa_0_510599395.html
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