New Online Reports and Research Publications

Please find below a list of updated and new publications on refugee studies and related topics. These have been accumulated from a range of online sources and links to the relevant full-text document are given where appropriate. This list will be made available on a regular basis via our Refugee Studies blog (http://refugee-archives.blogspot.com), as new resources become available.

If you find any other new resources, then do please let us know at: library-archives@uel.ac.uk.

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Title: Institute for Race Relations Annual Report 2008.

Authors: Institute for Race Relations.
Publication Date: December 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/annualreport08.pdf
Source: Institute for Race Relations – http://www.irr.org.uk/ (Web).

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Title: “A Europe Without Barriers": UNHCR's Recommendations to the Czech Republic for its European Union Presidency (January - June 2009).

Authors: UNHCR.
Publication Date: December 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/49477b362.html
Source: UNHCR Refworld - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

Additional Info: The Czech Republic will assume the Presidency of the EU on 1 January 2009. UNHCR has prepared a set of recommendations to guide its work on several important issues arising on the Union's asylum agenda during the Czech Republic's six-month term. UNHCR remains seriously concerned that current laws and practice mean that persons in need of international protection are not necessarily able to find it throughout the European Union.

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Title: Ending Zimbabwe's Nightmare: A Possible Way Forward.

Authors: International Crisis Group.
Publication Date: December 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=5822
Source: International Crisis Group – http://www.crisisgroup.org/ (Web).

Additional Info: Additional Info: Africa Briefing N°56. The inter-party negotiations that have sought to end Zimbabwe’s political, economic and now full-blown humanitarian crisis following the fraudulent June 2008 presidential election run-off are hopelessly deadlocked. Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF will not accept genuine power sharing, and Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) are unwilling to join a ZANU-PF dominated administration as a junior partner, responsible for ending international isolation but without authority to implement needed reforms and emergency humanitarian relief.

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Title: DRC Experts Report.

Authors: Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Publication Date: 12 December 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2008/773
Source: UN Pulse - http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf (Web).

Additional Info: The final report of the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been issued (S/2008/773). The document reports on 12 weeks of field work in the region, in particular in the North and South Kivu provinces. The report makes recommendations and has annexed many examples of evidence.

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Title: Family Reunification: A Right for Forced Migrants?

Authors: Anne Staver.
Publication Date: December 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/RSCworkingpaper51.pdf
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

Additional Info: RSC Working Paper no. 51

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Title: Legal Response to Human Trafficking Series

Authors: The ABA Enterprise Fund.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.abanet.org/domviol/tip/
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

Additional Info: Available are three texts that provide guidance to attorneys working on human trafficking cases in the U.S.

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Report by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, following his visit to the Republic of Cyprus on 7-10 July 2008. Issues reviewed: Asylum, Detention of Migrants and Trafficking in Human Beings in the Republic of Cyprus

Authors: Thomas Hammarberg / COE.
Publication Date: December 2008.
Publication URL Address: https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1385749&Site=CommDH&BackColorInternet=FEC65B&BackColorIntranet=FEC65B&BackColorLogged=FFC679
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

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Title: "So Much to Fear": War Crimes and the Devastation of Somalia.

Authors: Human Rights Watch.
Publication Date: December 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2008/12/08/so-much-fear-0
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

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Title: UNHCR Policy on the Employment of Persons with Disabilities

Authors: UNHCR.
Publication Date: November 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/494243102.html
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

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