Friday 21 September 2007

Online Publications from FMO Discussion List

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**Online Articles/Publications**

2007 Report on International Religious Freedom (U.S. Dept. of State, Sept.
2007) - http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2007/

"After the Wave: A Pilot Project to Develop Mental Health Services in Ampara
District, Sri Lanka Post-Tsunami," Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (Sept.
2007) - http://jha.ac

Expert Seminar on Protracted IDP Situations (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal
Displacement, June 2007; posted August 2007) -
http://www3.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/conferences/20070622.pdf

Gaining from Migration: Towards a New Mobility System (OECD, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/Gaining_from_Migration.pdf

Information Services for Refugee Communities in Zambia, Paper presented at 73rd
IFLA General Conference (15 Aug. 2007) -
http://lib.tut.ac.za/ifla/documents/christinekanyengo.pdf

Library Services for Displaced People: Activities in Burmese Refugee Camps,
Paper presented at 73rd IFLA General Conference (15 Aug. 2007) -
http://lib.tut.ac.za/ifla/documents/yurikowatanabe.pdf

The long road home: Opportunities and obstacles to the reintegration of IDPs
and refugees returning to Southern Sudan and the Three Areas. Report of Phase I
(Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, Aug. 2007) -
http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/papers/hpgcommissioned_dfidreintegration.pdf

On Migration and the Policy Process, Working Paper no. T20 (Development
Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation & Poverty, August 2007) -
http://www.migrationdrc.org/publications/working_papers/WP-T20.pdf

Protracted displacement and remittances: The case of Somalis in Eastleigh,
Nairobi, New Issues in Refugee Research Paper No. 143 (UNHCR, Aug. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/research/RESEARCH/46ea519d2.pdf

Real-time evaluation of UNHCR's IDP operation in the Democratic Republic of
Congo, PDES/2007/02 - RTE 5 (UNHCR, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/research/RESEARCH/46ea97fe2.pdf

Real time evaluation of UNHCR's IDP operation in Somalia, PDES/2007/02 - RTE 4 (Sept. 2007) - http://www.unhcr.org/research/RESEARCH/46e927652.pdf

Rebuilding Lives: Refugee Economic Opportunities in a New Land (Women's
Commission, August 2007) - http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/us_sandiego.pdf

Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict in the Sudan,
S/2007/520 (UN Security Council, Aug. 2007) -
http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/14092007094318AMSLKJ4P.htm

Response to the European Commission’s Green Paper on the Future Common European
Asylum System (UNHCR, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?docid=46e159f82

Security, Displacement and Iraq: A Deadly Combination (Brookings-Bern Project
on Internal Displacement, August 2007) -
http://www.brookings.edu/views/papers/ferris/20070827.htm

Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons 2006-2007
(Badil, Sept. 2007) - http://www.badil.org/Publications/Books/Books.htm

UNHCR's Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs
of Iraqi Asylum-Seekers (August 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=SUBSITES&id=46dec4da2

Update for partners on the situation of children in Iraq (UNICEF, August 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/LSGZ-76GDVA?OpenDocument

**Journals/Newsletters**

Archive Focus, vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 2007) -
http://www.uel.ac.uk/rca/documents/Newsletter1.pdf (full-text)
- Inaugural issue from the Refugee Archives, UEL.

Conflict, Security and Development, vol 7, no. 3 (2007) -
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g781668171~db=all (contents)
- Focus is on disarmament, demobilisation & reintegration (DDR); includes an
article on protracted refugee situations.

Development Policy Review, vol. 25, no. 5 (Sept. 2007) -
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/dpr/25/5?cookieSet=1
(contents, selected full-text)
- Special issue focusing on the "developmental state": "the issue seeks to
inform the process of rethinking how more effective and responsive states can
be (re)built – and what the role of the international assistance community may
be in that process." Note: This issue will be launched at an ODI event in
October; see http://www.odi.org.uk/events/dpr_launch/index.html for more info.

Field Exchange, no. 31 (Sept. 2007) - http://www.ennonline.net/fex (contents)
- From the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN).

International Review of the Red Cross, no. 865 (2007) -
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/section_review_2007_865?opendocument
(full-text)
- The theme of this issue is "humanitarian actors," with a particular focus on
the role of private miliary companies in armed conflict situations.

Monday Developments, vol. 25, no. 8 (Aug. 2007) -
http://www.interaction.org/files.cgi/5964_August2007.pdf (full-text)
- From InterAction; focus is on climate change.

Security Dialogue, vol. 38, no. 3 (Sept. 2007) -
http://sdi.sagepub.com/current.dtl (contents)
- Mix of articles.

**Events & Opportunities**

12th International Metropolis Conference, Melbourne, 8-12 October 2007 -
http://www.metropolis2007.org/index.php
- Conference will focus on following themes: “the patterns of current and
future migration; the scope for reinforcing its favourable impact on economic
growth; strengthening social cohesion.”

The blame game: Can journalists and aid workers trust each other?, London, 24
September 2007 - http://www.odi.org.uk/events/blame_game/index.html

European Chapter of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ)
Conference, Strasbourg, 18-19 October 2007 - http://www.iarlj.nl/general/

UNHCR's Annual Consultations with NGOs, Geneva, 26-28 September 2007 -
http://www.unhcr.org/ngo-consultations/

**Web Sites/Tools**

Database Court Decisions in Asylum Law -
http://www.iarlj.nl/Database/IARLJ_Database_Start.htm
- Search interface provided in a number of different languages.

Documentary Project for Refugee Youth – http://www.thedocumentaryproject.org
- Collaborative media project undertaken with 12 resettled refugee teenagers
from Africa and the Balkans.

Refugee Archives Current Awareness Blog - http://refugee-archives.blogspot.com/
- Service established for students of the MA in refugee studies course at UEL.


Elisa Mason
Information Specialist
http://fm-cab.blogspot.com

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