Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Displacement'
Afro-Colombians Defend ‘Life and Land’ in Northwest Humanitarian Zones
by Moira Birss -USA/Colombia- The first thing I notice after disembarking from the canoe that carries me across the Curvaradó River are palm oil trees. Their rows of short, stout trunks topped by long green fronds, stretch as far as...
Aboriginal Peoples Lose Rights and Mineral Rich Land in Northern Territory Intervention
by Sarah Irving -Australia- “It wasn’t our dream to come and eat at the white man’s table, to work for the white man as a slave,” says Reverend Dr Djiniyini Gondarra, a Yolngu elder. Dr Gondarra is one of the...
Sudan’s Referendum: Will Africa’s Largest Country Split in Two?
by Reem Abbas -Sudan- On January 9 citizens of South Sudan will begin voting in a week-long vote on whether they will secede from or remain united with the North. This referendum involves more than the yes or no vote....
What the Future Holds for Flood-Affected Pakistanis: Will Zuhra Go to School Again?
by Zubeida Mustafa -Pakistan- Zuhra is four and she has recently learned her Sindhi alphabet – 52 letters in all. She wants the world to know about her achievement. When I met Zuhra at the Indus Resource Centre’s (IRC) tent...
Despite Election, Burma's Sham Constitution Guarantees Military Control
by Cheery Zahau -Burma/India/Thailand- It is a critical time in my country’s history. The military junta, called the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), has ruled Burma since 1962 through violence and the severe repression of dissidents, ethnic armed-resistance groups,...
Floods, Drought, and Displacement Hit Pakistan's Women Hardest
by Sarah Irving -UK- The monsoon floods in Pakistan have killed thousands and affected an estimated twenty million people across several provinces. According to development organizations working in the country, the humanitarian crisis is yet another blow for Pakistan's rural...
“Deeply Divided”: Sri Lanka through the Eyes of Adele Barker
by Mandy Van Deven - India - During the year she taught Russian literature at the University of Peradeniya in Kandy, Sri Lanka, Arizona University professor Adele Barker found herself more comfortable in the role of perpetual learner than educator....
20 Years Later, Germany Struggles with “Annexation, not unification”
by Vera von Kreutzbruck – Germany - They were East Germany’s dream couple in the eighties. But shortly after the fall of the Wall, which divided East and West Germany from 1961 until 1989, a scandal would taint the image...
In Search of Home: Kashmiri Hindus Dream of Their Ancestral Lands
by Aditi Bhaduri - India - It has been a momentous year for Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. It began with the state government’s controversial transfer of land to the Hindu Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, and ended with the just concluded...
A New China Floods the Traditional Way of Life in Up the Yangtze
by Jessica Mosby - USA - On 8-8-08 when the Beijing Summer Olympics begins, the world will see that the Maoist doctrine of the Cultural Revolution has been replaced by capitalism and McDonald’s – all in the name of progress....
Mugabe's Forcible "Clearance" of 2.4 Million of His Own People in Operation Murambatsvina: A Tragic Legacy, Two Years Later
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - • A woman cries amongst her possessions. Photograph by Fidelis Zvomuya. •My conscience has not let me rest since I last visited the small mining town of Bindura, about 90 kilometers outside Harare, Zimbabwe’s...
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