New Publications

A warm welcome? Public services and managing migration in London. This is a new report by Michael Bell Associates for the London Asylum Seekers Consortium; it “was commissioned as a scoping exercise to explore the management of public services and migrants in London. This report seeks to identify key issues and provides initial pointers on the ways forward.”
(Source: Welcome To Your Library Digest - www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk).

Title - Mapping European Aid to Africa: Summary of Findings of the EUWI-AWG
Aid Mapping Exercise
Source - IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
Date - Apr 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ASIN-7FVKWM?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - Disabilities among Refugees and Conflict-Affected Populations
Source - Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Date - Jun 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ASIN-7FVLCY?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - Africa's Human Rights Architecture
Source - Centre for Conflict Resolution
Date - Jun 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-7FVGUF?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - Forgotten Humanitarian Crises: Conference on the Role of the Media,
Decision-makers and Humanitarian Agencies
Source - Danish Refugee Council
Date - Oct 2002
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/LGEL-5F6LTA?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - Journalism, Media and the Challenge of Human Rights
Source - International Council on Human Rights Policy
Date - Jan 2002
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/LGEL-5ECH5Y?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - Making Sense of Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and
Displacement: A Work in Progress
Source - Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-7AHDLV?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters: The Impact of
Catastrophic Events on the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy, 1981-2002
Source - Gender and Disaster Network
Date - Jan 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/SHIG-7ELHDA?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - International Dialogue on Migration No 10 - Expert Seminar:
Migration and the Environment
Source - International Organization for Migration
Date - Jun 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-7FNH38?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

The New Bonded Labour?: The impact of proposed changes to the UK immigration system on migrant domestic workers. A new report by Oxfam and Kalayaan.
Every year around 17,000 visas are granted to domestic workers from non-EU countries to accompany their employers to the UK. Prior to 1998, there was no formal route for migrant domestic workers (MDWs) to enter the UK. They were given leave to enter either as a visitor, a family member, or given a stamp ‘to work with…’ This meant that they were not formally recognised as workers, leaving them extremely vulnerable to exploitation by their employers and others.
Available online from the Oxfam website at: http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/display.asp?K=e2008041813281103
(Source: IRR quoting a BBC News Stories at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7484043.stm).

The Countertraffickers - Rescuing the victims of the global sex trade.
by William Finnegan. A new report by The New Yorker which is now available via their web site at: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/05/080505fa_fact_finnegan?currentPage=all

Trafficking in Persons Report 2008. The new annual report from the Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, in the United States. An online edition of this publication is now available online at: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2008/

Title - Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities and the Responsibilityto Protect: Challenges for the UN and the International Community in the21st Century.
Date - Jun 2008
URL Address -http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ-7G5GHR?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - World Disasters Report 2008: Focus on HIV and AIDS
Source - IFRC
Date - Jun 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/AMMF-7FYHWK?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Title - Annual Disaster Statistical Review - The Numbers and Trends 2007
Source - Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
Date - Jun 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-7FVG77?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/).

Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS) has published a briefing paper by Jon Burnett: 'Racism, destitution and asylum - Briefing Paper Number 6, June 2008'. Download the briefing paper at:
http://www.pafras.org.uk/documents/PAFRAS_Briefing_Paper_6_-_Racism,_destitution_and_asylum.pdf (pdf file, 72kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations News - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

Migration and Development: Perspectives from the South. A new report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the report is now available online for consultation via the IOM website at: http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/cache/offonce/pid/1674?entryId=17698

Humanitarian Action Report 2008 (UNICEF, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees (Institute for the Study of Labor, April 2008) [text via Human Security Gateway)
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Climate Change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide (International Council on Human Rights Policy, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Disabilities among Refugees and Conflict-Affected Populations (Women's Commission, June 2008) [access to report, resource kit, fact sheet and other related info.)
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Mauritania: Nobody wants anything to do with us, arrests and collective expulsions of migrants denied entry into Europe (Amnesty International, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

The Netherlands: The Detention of Irregular Migrants and Asylum-Seekers (Amnesty International, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

UNHCR Note on DNA Testing to Establish Family Relationships in the Refugee Context (UNHCR, June 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

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