The following list of publications was distributed through the FMO Jiscmail email list and I recommend this as a very useful tool especially for students to keep up-to-date with current information and development within the forced migration field. Further information can be found at:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.htmlBelow please find references to new online publications, journal/newsletter issues, events and opportunities, and web sites/tools. **Please note that long URLs may break into two lines in some mail readers. Cut
and paste each line of the URL, if this happens.**
**Online Articles/Publications**
Access to health care and human rights of asylum seekers in Malta: Experiences, results and recommendations (Médecins du Monde, 2007) -
http://www.jrsmalta.org/MdM2007_Report.pdf
Asylum Disparities Persist, Regardless of Court Location and Nationality (TRAC,
Sept. 2007) - http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/183/
Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries: Second Quarter 2007
(UNHCR, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/STATISTICS/46f0e0dd2.pdf The building blocks of sustainable peace: The views of internally displaced
people in Northern Uganda, Oxfam Briefing Paper 106 (Sept. 2007) -
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/conflict_disasters/downloads/bp106_nuganda.pdf Charting the Roads to Peace: Facts, Figures and Trends in Conflict Resolution
(Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EMAE-76ZRRE?OpenDocument (via
ReliefWeb)
Civilians in the way of conflict: Displaced people in Sri Lanka (IDMC, Sept.
2007) -
http://tinyurl.com/yo9fmqDealing with the Past in Post-Conflict Societies: Ten Years after the Peace
Accords - in Guatemala and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Swiss Peace Annual Conference,
Sept. 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-77CDU9?OpenDocument(via ReliefWeb)
Determining the Best Interests of Unaccompanied and Separated Children: Lessons
from Guinea (International Rescue Committee, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-77CSAW?OpenDocument (via
ReliefWeb)
"Drug Donations in Emergencies, the Sri Lankan post-tsunami experience," by R.
Hechmann, Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (26 Sept. 2007) -
http://jha.ac/2007/09/26/drug-donations-in-emergencies-the-sri-lankan-post-tsunami-experience/Dynamics of Conflict and Displacement in Papua, Indonesia: A collection of
papers developed in conjunction with a one-day workshop held on the 26th
October 2006 at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, RSC Working Paper no. 42 (RSC,
Sept. 2007) -
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/RSCworkingpaper42.pdfFighting HIV/AIDS together with refugees and internally displaced populations:
Summary of 2006 UNHCR Missions (UNHCR, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/47010d3b2.pdfGetting the Policies Right: The Prioritization and Sequencing of Policies in
Post-Conflict Countries, by A. R. Timilsina (RAND Dissertation, 2007) -
http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD222/ Impact Assessment of the Gokwe Integrated Recovery Action Project Zimbabwe
(Feinstein International Center, August 2007) -
http://fic.tufts.edu/downloads/JohnZimbabwe_10_2_07.pdf International Law Commission: Report on the work of its fifty-ninth session (7
May to 5 June and 9 July to 10 August 2007), A/62/10; see esp. Chapter
6, “Expulsion of Aliens” (UN, 2007) -
http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/reports/2007/2007report.htm Iraq: Human rights abuses against Palestinian refugees (Amnesty International,
Oct. 2007) -
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE140302007Meeting the Health Needs of Iraqis Displaced in Neighbouring Countries: Joint
Appeal by UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and WHO (18 Sept. 2007) -
http://www.who.int/hac/crises/irq/appeal/iraq_neighbours_appeal_18sep07.pdf Millions in Flight: The Iraqi Refugee Crisis (Amnesty International, 24 Sept.
2007) -
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE140412007Proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2008: Report to Congress (U.S.
State Dept., Sept. 2007) -
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/91978.pdfRapporteur’s Report: UNHCR’s Annual Consultations with NGOs (28 Sept. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/ngo-consultations/report_rapporteur_2007.pdfReal-time Evaluations of UNHCR's Involvement in Operations for Internally
Displaced Persons and the Cluster Approach: Analysis of Findings,
EC/58/SC/CRP.23 (EXCOM Standing Committee, August 2007) -
http://fic.tufts.edu/downloads/JohnZimbabwe_10_2_07.pdf"Redesigning the ReliefWeb," by S. Naidoo, in Information Management Journal
(Sept. 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/TBRL-77ENDF?OpenDocumentReport of the Secretary-General on women and peace and security, S/2007/567 (12
Sept. 2007) -
http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/02102007020619PMUNRP92.htm(via UN Pulse)
Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and
Armed Conflict, A/62/228 (Aug. 2007) -
http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/25092007120542PMMVALVP.htm(via UN Pulse)
Reports and Documents for the 58th Executive Committee Plenary Session, 1 - 5
October 2007 -
http://www.unhcr.org/excom/46fb6c122.htmlRights Here, Rights Now: Recommendations for Protecting Trafficked Children
(ECPAT UK & UNICEF UK, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.ecpat.org.uk/downloads/RightsHere_RightsNow.pdfSingled Out: Russia’s Detention and Expulsion of Georgians (Human Rights Watch,
Oct. 2007) -
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/09/30/russia16977.htm"Where to Now? Decreasing Options for Displaced Iraqis," by A. Harper,
Migration Information Source (Sept. 2007) -
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=644Zambia: Analysis of the Gaps in Protection of Refugees (UNHCR, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/46f26f974.pdf**Journals/Newsletters**
Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 16, no. 4 (2007) -
http://tinyurl.com/2agl97 (contents)
Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 30, no. 5 (2007) -
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g781042901~db=all (contents)
European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 9, no. 3 (2007) -
http://tinyurl.com/28vj7u (contents)
Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 20 (Spring 2007) -
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/current/ (full-text)
Hommes et Migrations, no. 1266 (mars/avril 2007) -
http://www.hommes-et-migrations.fr/ (contents, selected full-text)
- Focus is on "Nouvelles figures de l’immigration en France et en Méditerranée."
International Migration, vol. 45, no. 4 (Oct. 2007) -
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/imig/45/4 (contents)
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 33, no. 8 (2007) -
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g782809369~db=all (contents)
Migration Letters, vol. 4, no. 2 (Oct. 2007) -
http://www.migrationletters.com/content.html (full-text)
- Special issue on "Migration and Human Security in the Balkans."
The Researcher, vol. 2, no. 3 (Sept. 2007) -
http://www.ecoi.net/news/28.welcome-to-the-seventh-issue-of-the-researcher.htm(full-text)
Torture Journal, vol. 17, no. 2 (2007) -
http://www.irct.org/Default.aspx?ID=3553 (full-text)
- Shared reports from the IRCT Symposium on Torture, the theme for which
was "Providing Reparation and Treatment, Preventing Impunity."
**Events & Opportunities**
International Day for Disaster Reduction, 10 October 2007 -
http://www.unisdr.org/eng/public_aware/world_camp/2006-2007/iddr/2007-iddr.htm- This year’s theme is “Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School.”
Launch of Human Development Report 2007/2008, 27 November 2007 -
http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2007.cfm
**Web Sites/Tools**
Country of Return Information Project -
http://www.vluchtelingenwerk.be/projecten/cri.php- See “Country Sheets.”
Ibrahim Index of African Governance -
http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/the-index.asp- Assessment of governance quality in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Elisa Mason
Information Specialist
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