{"id":605,"date":"2019-09-19T11:52:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=605"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:40:07","slug":"reflections-from-tanzania-on-the-oau-convention-at-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2019\/reflections-from-tanzania-on-the-oau-convention-at-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections from Tanzania on the OAU Convention at 50"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Reflections from Tanzania on the OAU Convention at 50\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>On 18 September 2019, Janemary Ruhundwa, Executive Director of Dignity Kwanza and lead of LERRN&#8217;s Tanzania Working Group, published an op-ed in&nbsp;<em>The Citizen,&nbsp;<\/em>one of Tanzania&#8217;s leading English-language newspapers, reflecting on the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the 1969 <em>OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in<\/em> Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the piece, she calls for &#8220;a new way of responding to the protracted nature of asylum&#8221; in Africa, and highlights the &#8220;shift towards creating conditions for refugees to rebuild their lives&#8221; while in exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article underscores the importance of understanding and enhancing the role of civil society &#8211; including national NGOs and refugee-led organizations &#8211; in promoting protection and solutions with and for refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations, Janemary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/250\/JMs-article_50-years-of-OAU-refugee-pact-Citizen-18-September-2019.pdf\">JMs article_50 years of OAU refugee pact &#8211; Citizen &#8211; 18 September 2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 September 2019, Janemary Ruhundwa, Executive Director of Dignity Kwanza and lead of LERRN&#8217;s Tanzania Working Group, published an op-ed in&nbsp;The Citizen,&nbsp;one of Tanzania&#8217;s leading English-language newspapers, reflecting on the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the 1969 OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa. In the piece, she calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[309,1],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-janemary-ruhundwa","category-news","tag-articles"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"article-print"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}