New Reports and Publications

Iraqi crisis fuels rise in asylum seekers in industrialised world (UNHCR Briefing Paper) - [text online]. The full report is also available online at: "Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries, 2007."

Immigration bail hearings by video link: a monitoring exercise by Bail for Immigration Detainees and the Refugee Council [March 2008]
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/policy/position/2008/bail_hearings.htm

Refugee Council response to the Home Affairs Committee Inquiry into Human Trafficking [February 2008]
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/policy/responses/2008/hic_trafficking.htm

The Destitution Tally: an indication of the extent of destitution among asylum seekers and refugees [January 2008]
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/policy/responses/2008/Destitution.htm

UNHCR Protection Starter Kit – Now available online at:
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/protection_kit
(Source: UNHCR Refworld - www.UNHCR.org/Refworld)

Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation. An Interagency Statement
February 2008.
Available online at: http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?docid=47c6aa6e2
(Source: UNHCR Refworld - www.UNHCR.org/Refworld)

UNHCR Manual on a Community Based Approach in UNHCR Operations
March 2008.
Available Online at: http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?docid=47da54722
(Source: UNHCR Refworld - www.UNHCR.org/Refworld)

Beyond Naturalisation: Citizenship policy in an age of super-mobility
http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=594
Research report for the Lord Goldsmith Citizenship Review for ippr, by Jill Rutter, Maria Latorre and Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah. It examines how the Government might respond to the fact that fewer people are willing to take up British citizenship or able to establish long-term roots within communities.
(Source: Welcome To Your Library - www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk).

Asylum Law and Female Genital Mutilation: Recent Developments (Congressional
Research Service, Feb. 2008) - http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS22810.pdf
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

EXCOM Standing Committee, 41st Meeting, Documents (4-6 March 2008) -
http://www.unhcr.org/doclist/excom/418f47444.html
- Issues discussed include protracted refugee situations, supporting the
return and reintegration of displaced populations, assessing unmet needs of
populations of concern, among others.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

The A to Z Guide to Afghanistan Assistance (AREU, Feb. 2008) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

Assessment on psychosocial needs of Iraqis displaced in Jordan and Lebanon: survey report (IOM, Feb. 2008) [text via Eldis]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

Claiming Asylum at a Screening Unit as an Unaccompanied Minor (Children's Commissioner, March 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

Amnesty International et al., "The Gaza Strip: A Humanitarian Implosion," A Joint Agency Report (Oxfam, March 2008) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

Baraka, H., “Palestinians in Lebanon: Chains of Misery (Bound by the Law and the Market),” FMRS Working Paper, no. 9 (Forced Migration & Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo, Feb. 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

Gammeltoft-Hansen, T., "The Refugee, the Sovereign and the Sea: EU Interdiction Policies in the Mediterranean," DIIS Working Paper no 2008/6 (Danish Institute for International Studies, March 2008) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

Humanitarian Policy Group, “Humanitarian action in Iraq: putting the pieces together,” HPG Policy Brief 30 (ODI, March 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com).

No Borders has published its February/March 2008 newsletter.
Download the newsletter at:
http://www.noborders.org.uk/uploads/NbNewsletter3.pdf (pdf file, 176kb)
(Source: IRR News – http://www.irr.org.uk).

UNHCR Compilation of Case Law on Refugee Protection in International Law
March 2008
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain?docid=47dfc8e32
(Source: UNHCR Refworld - www.UNHCR.org/Refworld)

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