Publications and Reports

Applying the Lessons of Bosnia in Iraq: Whatever the Solution, Property Rights Should be Secured (Jan. 2008, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement) [text online].
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

The conditions in centres for third country national (detention camps, open centres as well as transit centres and transit zones) with a particular focus on provisions and facilities for persons with special needs in the 25 EU member states (Dec. 2007, European Parliament) [text online via Statewatch].
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Kazakhstan: Neglecting Refugees, Engendering Statelessness (Dec. 2007, Refugees International) [text online].
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Kyrgyz Republic: Powerful Neighbors Imperil Protection and Create Statelessness (Dec. 2007, Refugees International) [text online].
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Making Sense of Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Displacement: A Work in Progress (Dec. 2007, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement) [text online].
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Focusing English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) on community cohesion.
Published by the UK Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills (DIUS) and available online at: [full text]. http://www.dius.gov.uk/publications/esol_consultation.pdf
In addition, further information on DIUS available at: http://www.dius.gov.uk/
(Source: Welcome To Your Library Digest – http:/www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk).

Country Information in Asylum Procedures - Quality as a Legal Requirement in the EU
December 2007 http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?docid=479074032
This report, published by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, aims to draw a complex picture of how substantive quality standards of researching and assessing COI appear in the form of legal requirements in the EU, either as binding legal provisions or guiding judicial practice. The report identifies "good legislative practices" concerning COI in the 27 member states and presents what the EU asylum directives require in this respect.
(Source: UNHCR RefWorld - http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain).

The Refugee Law Reader: Cases, Documents, and Materials
January 2008 http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?docid=478f22f12
This document is the syllabus for "The Refugee Law Reader", an on-line 'living' casebook (www.refugeelawreader.org). It is the fourth edition of the Reader, which is published by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee. The Refugee Law Reader is a collaborative project among experts in the field that offers a fully developed course curriculum and access to over 10,000 pages of legal instruments, documents and specialist commentary.

The Refugee Law Reader has been designed to easily adapt to the wide range of teaching and research needs of professionals. This booklet aims to facilitate navigation within the web site and to assist in seeing the structure of the curriculum as a whole. It also seeks to assist users with the selective adaptation of the course structure and access to the extensive legal material available in The Reader.
(Source: UNHCR RefWorld - http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain)

UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2006. This report has just been published by the UNHCR in Geneva and the report is now available online via the UNHCR Statistics site (http://www.unhcr.org/statistics.html). Full text of the report is available at: [text online - http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/STATISTICS/478cda572.html].
(Source: UNHCR – http://www.unhcr.org).

Mexico: Evictions of indigenous communities fuel displacement in Chiapas
In the Mexican state of Chiapas, 5,500 people are still internally displaced, in addition to an unknown number who have sought anonymity or remain dispersed, more than a decade after the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) led an uprising of indigenous communities against socio-economic exclusion and lack of access to land. (...)
Full Overview (html/pdf) ; Full Internal Displacement Profile ; Mexico country page
(Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Children and armed conflict - Report of the Secretary-General (A/62/609–S/2007/757). General Assembly Sixty-second session. Agenda item 66 (a)
Promotion and protection of the rights of children. Security Council. Sixty-second year. Available online via ReliefWeb at: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-7BBTF3?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int ; and the United Nations General Assembly - http://www.un.org/ga/)

More effective strategies needed to prevent global conflicts – UN report. Available online via ReliefWeb at: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SHES-7BEV4Z?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int).

Burma/Myanmar: After the crackdown - new ICG report
Published By : International Crisis Group
Date : 31 Jan 2008
URL :
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/AMMF-7BDHPD?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int).

UNHCR Country Briefing Folder on Somalia
January 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?docid=47a353642

UNHCR's Status Determination and Protection Information Section (SDPIS) has
started to produce Country Briefing Folders on the top countries of origin
(as highlighted and regularly updated on the homepage of www.refworld.org).
The tables of contents of all Country Briefing Folders will be made available
through Refworld and provide (directly clickable) access to information from
UNHCR and external sources.
The Country Briefing Folders contain general background information,
information relating to the legal context of the country, human rights,
international protection considerations regarding particular groups, and
additional information.
(Source: UNHCR Refword - www.refworld.org).

Help the Prisoners has published a report on: 'Abuse of Muslims in Frankland Prison'.
Download the report at:
http://www.cageprisoners.com/download.php?download=673 (pdf file, 368kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations (IRR) News – http://www.irr.org.uk).

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has published issue no.10 of its Echoes Newsletter.
Download the newsletter at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/echoes_newsletter_ten.pdf (pdf file, 668kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations (IRR) News – http://www.irr.org.uk).

HM Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales has published its: 'Annual Report 2006-7'.
Download the report at:
http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/docs/prisons_ann_rep_1_.pdf?view=Binary (pdf file, 1mb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations (IRR) News – http://www.irr.org.uk).

HM Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales has published its: 'Annual Report 2006-7: Survey Summaries'.
Download the report at:
http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/docs/Ann_Rprt_Surv_Sum.pdf?view=Binary (pdf file, 1mb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations (IRR) News – http://www.irr.org.uk).

The House of Lords and House of Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights has published a new report: 'Legislative Scrutiny: Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill'.
Download the report at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200708/jtselect/jtrights/37/37.pdf (pdf file, 576kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations (IRR) News – http://www.irr.org.uk).

The Border and Immigration Agency of the Home Office has published a summary of responses to a recent consultation on unaccompanied asylum seeking children: 'Better outcomes: the way forward improving the care of unaccompanied asylum seeking children'.
Download the report at:
http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/aboutus/consultations/closedconsultations/uasc/betteroutcomes.pdf?view=Binary (pdf file, 280kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations (IRR) News – http://www.irr.org.uk).

The Border and Immigration Agency of the Home Office has published details of a consultation which ends on 24 April 2008: 'The Border and Immigration Agency code of practice for keeping children safe from harm consultation'.
Download details of the consultation at:
http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/aboutus/consultations/keepingchildrensafe/uasc_codeofpractice.pdf?view=Binary (pdf file, 624kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations (IRR) News – http://www.irr.org.uk).