Shelter Centre

North Korea and the International Politics of Famine
Japan Focus, NY
Humanitarian disasters in illiberal environments require such an integrative approach. To understand North Korea's particular dynamic, though, we must also tackle the question of power as it relates to sovereignty. Cognizant of transborder issues such ...

Two former top athletes from Japan and Tanzania turned back the clock this week, taking part in a run for peace at the Mtabila camp for Burundian refugees.

Adventist Press Service APD
Sudanese civil war returnees
Adventist Press Service APD, Switzerland
This project, launched in 2007, is funded by the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the Japan Platform, an international emergency humanitarian aid organization that focuses ...

Reuters AlertNet
Sudanese Civil War Returnees Struggle to Reach Home
Reuters AlertNet, UK - Feb 9, 2009
... and the Japan Platform, an international emergency humanitarian aid organization that focuses on the needs of refugees and disaster relief. ...

Over 300 people spent their nights between New Year's Eve and the 5th of January in a tent camp stationed at Hibiya Park in central Tky, referred to as -' (toshikoshi hakenmura, or lit. New Years Village for Temporary Workers). The people staying in Hakenmura were temporary workers (", haken shain): Japanese men and women of various ages, with working experience in several fields, who saw their contracts as temporary workers annulled in the last months (according to some estimates between last October and this March, 85,012 temp workers have been laid off), in part because of the effects of the global financial crisis, and in part because of bad administration of the legal system that governs temporary work [ja].

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