Unhcr and the Struggle for Accountability: Technology, Law and Results-Based Management

ISBN-13: 9780815355069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 184 str.

Opis

This multidisciplinary volume offers an in-depth exploration of accountability in humanitarian action. It explores how three contemporary narratives of global governance – human rights based approaches/international law, new public management, and technology – intersect with different dimensions of UNHCR's accountability endeavor. Drawing on case studies in Afghanistan, Australia, Colombia, the EU, Mauretania, Morocco, Turkey, Uganda and UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, the volume considers the similarities, differences and overlaps between these accountability-strategies as they play out in UNHCR's global field of action.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. UNHCR and the Quest for Accountability 2. Accounting for the Deficit: Refugee protection, bureaucratic order, and UNHCR assistance in Uganda, 1959-66 3. Asylum making: the every-day practice of refugee status determination within UNHCR 4. UNHCR’s Human Rights Obligations: Applying the International Law Commission’s Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations 5. IDP protection by UNHCR in Colombia 6. Narratives of accountability in the UNHCR's refugee resettlement strategy 7. UNHCR Reforms Revisited: Rights-based versus Results-based 8. UNHCR, Biometric Refugee Registration and Implications for Accountability Conclusion. The Future of Accountability