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Shepherd Mutsvara

@shepmutsvara

Affiliated Senior Researcher @HRC_UGent: refugee definition, forced displacement, border externalization, AU & EU refugee policy. Mentor @KaldorCentre. 🇿🇼

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linkhttps://hrc.ugent.be/staff/shepherd-mutsvara/ calendar_today08-04-2013 18:46:27

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43 years + 5 more years of despondency, tyrrany, vote rigging and voter fatigue. From Mugabe to Mnangagwa a curse of 'liberation' politics #ElectionZW #ZimbabweElections2023

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My research is available on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/36…'?utm_source=twitter&rgutm_meta1=eHNsLUNKS0thUnBMaWNsVXFBM2VhUFRBUUNvNStWVTNLSUZwd1cydy9HQnNmc2pSelNBVVpXVVp1disyL0dlOVFlaCs0bFVjMVRmOGs3ZEhwMDlkMjZWc2hMaz0%3D

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In Zimbabwe, the Persons With Disabilities Bill was gazetted. I hope colleagues in the disability rights sector will raise awareness on this bill and what needs to be improved. My immediate reaction however is that if we are serious about repealing the Disabled Persons Act

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How to deal with the protection gap for persons forcibly displaced outside their country of origin due to economic hardship? On Wednesday March 20th at 14:30, our colleague Shepherd Mutsvara will defend his PhD at the University of the National Education Commission, Krakow!

How to deal with the protection gap for persons forcibly displaced outside their country of origin due to economic hardship?

On Wednesday March 20th at 14:30, our colleague <a href="/ShepMutsvara/">Shepherd Mutsvara</a>  will defend his PhD at the University of the National Education Commission, Krakow!
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First person of colour to be confered PhD degree UKEN. Thesis on how to deal with the protection gap for persons forcibly displaced outside their country of origin due to economic hardship. Thanks to my supervisors prof hab Joanna Bar Uniwersytet Jagielloński & Ellen Desmet

First person of colour to be confered PhD degree <a href="/UKENkrakow/">UKEN</a>. Thesis on how to deal with the protection gap for persons forcibly displaced outside their country of origin due to economic hardship. Thanks to my supervisors prof hab Joanna Bar <a href="/JagiellonskiUni/">Uniwersytet Jagielloński</a> &amp;  <a href="/edesmet_UGent/">Ellen Desmet</a>
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#ECREWeekly Updates on 🇪🇺 Eastern Borders: Pushbacks from 🇵🇱 Continue 🇵🇱 Shares Details of “Shield East” Plan to Reinforce 🇪🇺’s Eastern Borders 🇫🇮 Border Guards to Receive Additional Training Related to Implementation of Controversial New Asylum Law 🔗bit.ly/3yFjVOX

#ECREWeekly Updates on 🇪🇺 Eastern Borders:

Pushbacks from 🇵🇱 Continue 
🇵🇱 Shares Details of “Shield East” Plan to Reinforce 🇪🇺’s Eastern Borders 
🇫🇮 Border Guards to Receive Additional Training Related to Implementation of Controversial New Asylum Law

🔗bit.ly/3yFjVOX
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Trump's racialised rant and lie about #Congo releasing "a lot of people — a lot of people — from their prisons and jails and brought ’em into the United States of America", fails to acknowledge how the US foreign policy has undermined political institutions in the #Congo

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Pushbacks at the #Polish border with #Belarus. Asylum seekers continue to be pushed back on the grounds of security, terrorism & hybrid-war.

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According to a recent survey, 90 per cent of Poles are in favour of the army shooting at the migrants if they forcibly cross the Polish eastern border with #Belarus. businessinsider.com.pl/wiadomosci/kry…

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Engaging discussion during the #ECRE_AGC24 with #StefanMaier UNHCR Representation for EU Affairs, Tineke Strik European Parliament and #SuadMohamed moderated by #SadhiaRafi. It is our hope that this event will shape the dialogue on global displacement.

Engaging discussion during the #ECRE_AGC24  with #StefanMaier <a href="/Refugees_EU/">UNHCR Representation for EU Affairs</a>, <a href="/Tineke_Strik/">Tineke Strik</a> <a href="/EUparliament/">European Parliament</a>  and #SuadMohamed moderated by  #SadhiaRafi. It is our hope that this event will shape the dialogue on global displacement.
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Today is my last day as Director of Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) It has been wonderful to have the opportunity to support research and advocacy about #Refugees at York University Over to you Dr. Yvonne Su. CRS is in great hands!

Today is my last day as Director of <a href="/CRSYorkU/">Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS)</a>

It has been wonderful to have the opportunity to support research and advocacy about #Refugees at <a href="/YorkUniversity/">York University</a> 

Over to you <a href="/suyvonne/">Dr. Yvonne Su</a>. CRS is in great hands!
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📢Urgent action needed for refugees trapped in Europe’s ‘death zone’ ECRE member, the Norwegian Refugee Council (Norwegian Refugee Council), calls on the Polish government, the EU, and the international community to address the escalating humanitarian crisis👇 reliefweb.int/report/poland/…

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Publication alert 🚩: In this chapter, I explore the impact of border identities and evolving ethnicities on civil protection systems & how it leads to large scale humanitarian disasters link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Publication alert 🚩: In this chapter, I explore the impact of border identities and evolving ethnicities on civil protection systems &amp; how it leads to large scale humanitarian disasters link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
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🔴 Urgent: A boat is currently sinking in the Mediterranean. The dinghy has lost most of its air, and 12 people have been in the water for over two hours, likely to reduce weight and protect the 4 children on board. AUTHORITIES ARE IGNORING OUR CALLS FOR HELP!