"February 2017"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by Gerry Simpson, senior researcher and advocate with the Refugee Rights Program at Human Rights Watch"--Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Cash Grant^^^ 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 -- II. 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^^^ ^ UNHCR's Promotion of Involuntary Refugee Return^^^ 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 -- IV. 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^^^ ^ Acknowledgements. Risk of Further UNHCR Complicity in Refoulement in 2017 -- VII. 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.
Summary:
"The report, "Pakistan Coercion, UN Complicity: The Mass Forced Return of Afghan Refugees," documents Pakistan's abuses and the role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in promoting the exodus. Through enhancing its "voluntary repatriation" program and failing to publicly call for an end to coercive practices, the UN agency has become complicit in Pakistan's mass refugee abuse. The UN and international donors should press Pakistan to end the abuses, protect the remaining 1.1 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan, and allow refugees among the other estimated 750,000 unregistered Afghans there to seek protection, Human Rights Watch said"--Publisher's description.
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