Lab Activity

                       Our group is researching the human rights of refugees.  An article that I found to be informative of the issues refugees face is "Rough Terrain for Refugees" by Rachel Anderson. In the article Anderson discusses how refugees human rights are being violated and how that also connects to the destruction of the environment surrounding a lot of refugee camps. Anderson brings up the point that many refugees have left a life of poverty in their home countries only to end up in the same position in their host country. A major part of this issue is the host countries refusal to properly support refugees, which forces the refugees to live off the land in order to survive. According to Anderson these camps are crowded and often unsanitary.  Two more articles of interest would be "Human Rights Watch/Africa calls for Protection of Refugees in E.Zaire" and "Tricked, Rwandan Refugees Are Driven Home, U.N Says" . These articles focus on how refugees are sometimes forced back to their native lands, violating their right to seek asylum under the UDHR.