New Research and Reports

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: Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the Draft Partial Immigration and Citizenship Bill 2008

Authors: Refugee Council, the Scottish Refugee Council and the Welsh Refugee Council.
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/Resources/Refugee%20Council/downloads/policy_responses/JCHR%20Joint%20Response%20final%20Oct%2008%20_2_.pdf
Source: Refugee Council – http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/ (Web)

Additional Info: The Refugee Council, the Scottish Refugee Council and the Welsh Refugee Council have jointly submitted their concerns about this proposed Bill to the JCHR. The Refugee Councils are concerned that the Bill greatly extends the powers of the Secretary of State to prevent refugees seeking asylum in the UK without ensuring that protection needs are safeguarded. It is also likely to lead to growing criminalisation and use of detention.

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Title: Fair Decisions, Faster Justice: A UKBA Consultation: Joint Response of the Refugee Legal Centre and the Refugee Council

Authors: Refugee Legal centre and the Refugee Council.
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/Resources/Refugee%20Council/downloads/policy_responses/Immigration%20Appeals%20-%20RLC%20and%20RC%20Joint%20Response%20Final%20_2_.pdf
Source: Refugee Council – http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/ (Web)
Additional Info: The Refugee Council has responded jointly with the Refugee Legal Centre to the Government’s proposals to create a new Tribunal structure to consider asylum appeals. The two organisations have serious concerns that the new structure would undermine access to justice and the rule of law. They would place the UK at serious risk of breaching its international protection obligations.

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Title: Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary, United Kingdom - Third Quarter 2008.

Authors: UK Home Office RDS.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/whatsnew1.html
Source: Home Office RDS - http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/whatsnew1.html (Web)

Additional Info: Also available: Supplementary excel tables.

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Title: The United Nations Human Rights System: How to Make it Work for you.

Authors: The United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS).
Publication Date: August 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.un-ngls.org/site/IMG/pdf/Final_logo.pdf
Source: UN Pulse – http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf (Web)

Additional Info: In the lead-up to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) has produced, in collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, a handbook entitled, The United Nations Human Rights System: How to Make it Work for you. Primarily designed for civil society organizations, it offers basic and practical information for understanding how the UN human rights system works. The handbook may be downloaded in English and French from the NGLS web site.

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Title: Operation Pentameter 2: Attacking Exploitation in the United Kingdom.

Authors: The UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (UNIAP).
Publication Date: 18 November 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.no-trafficking.org/content/SIREN/SIREN_pdf/siren%20uk-01%20operation%20pentameter%202%20final.pdf
Source: UN Pulse – http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf (Web)

Additional Info: The UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (UNIAP) has issued a Strategic Information Response Network (SIREN) report, Operation Pentameter 2: Attacking Exploitation in the United Kingdom. According to the UN News Story, "The largest ever police operation to target sex trafficking in the UK recovered some 167 women and girls forced to work in the sex industry, including 13 children – the youngest just 15 years old.".

See Also the UNIAP Press Release at: http://www.no-trafficking.org/inet_newsmanager/news_detail.aspx?news_id=62

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Title: The long road home: Opportunities and obstacles to the reintegration of IDPs and refugees returning to Southern Sudan and the Three Areas.

Authors: Sara Pantuliano … [et al.]. / Humanitarian Policy Group, (OCI).
Publication Date: September 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://feeds.odi.org.uk/%7Er/ODI_HPG/%7E3/458722759/hpgcommissioned-reintegration-phaseII-synthesis.pdf
Source: Overseas Development Institute, Humanitarian Policy Group – http://www.odi.org.uk/HPG/ (Web)

Additional Info: HPG Synthesis Paper.

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Title: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in War and Its Aftermath:
Realities, Responses, and Required Resources.

Authors: UN Population Fund
Publication Date: June 2006.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/LTIO-6RPSC2?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

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Title: Rule-of-Law Tools for Post-Conflict States: Truth commissions

Authors: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Publication Date: December 2006.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-7DCJ3R?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

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Title: Crisis Prevention and Recovery Report 2008: Post-Conflict Economic
Recovery - Enabling Local Ingenuity.

Authors: UN Development Programme.
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/ASAZ-7KNGZ2?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

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Title: The Struggle after Combat. The Role of NGOs in DDR Processes:
Synthesis Study.

Authors: Cordaid.
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7L3EPS?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

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Title: Humanitarian Coordinators Pool Mapping Exercise Report.

Authors: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Publication Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/MCOT-7LADJQ?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

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Title: Exploring Genocide: Educational Issues and Challenges.

Authors: Concern.
Publication Date: February 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/SKAR-7LBL34?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

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Title: Unfinished Business: A Comparative Survey of Historical and Contemporary Slavery.

Authors: prepared by Joel Quirk of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE, U.K)
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=38451&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Source: UN News. (Web)

Additional Info: UN News Story: Slavery, though legally abolished, remains widespread in current forms, UN reports - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=29235&Cr=slave&Cr1=exploit

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Title: Periodic Report – Sudan.

Authors: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/10thOHCHR28nov08.pdf
Source: UN Pulse – http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf (Web)

Additional Info: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR) has released its 10th periodic report (full text, pdf) on the Human Rights situation in the Sudan. According to the summary, "the report focuses on arbitrary arrest and detention, in particular, situations in which members of the security and intellegence services, the military or the police arbitrary arrest or detain individuals."

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Title: United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq Report.

Authors: United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.uniraq.org/documents/UNAMI_Human_Rights_Report_January_June_2008_EN.pdf
Source: UN Pulse – http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf (Web)

Additional Info: The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) has released its latest report (full-text, pdf) on human rights in Iraq, covering the period 1 January - 30 June 2008. According to the press release, "Iraq has witnessed substantial improvements in general security conditions, with a marked drop in violent, high-visibility, high-casualty attacks by militias or criminal gangs, but the human rights situation in the country still remains serious."

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Title: Gender Migration and Remittances in Southern Africa

Authors: Southern African Migration Project, (SAMP).
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.queensu.ca/samp/sampresources/samppublications/
Source: SAMP - http://www.queensu.ca/samp/ (Web)

Additional Info: SAMP Migration Policy Series No 49. The report provides an analysis of migration patterns and remittance flows in Southern Africa from a gendered perspective. The report is based on national household surveys conducted by SAMP in 5 SADC countries. As well as demonstrating the vital importance of remittances to household livelihoods in the region, the report shows how men’s and women’s migration and remittance behavior differs. The report is an important contribution to current debates on South-South remittances and the development potential of remittance flows. In addition, the report shows that Zimbabwean migration now exhibits very different gender characteristics from other countries in the SADC region.

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Title: The Perfect Storm: The Realities of Xenophobia in Contemporary South Africa

Authors: Southern African Migration Project, (SAMP).
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.queensu.ca/samp/sampresources/samppublications/
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

Additional Info: SAMP Migration Policy Series No 50.

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Title: UNHCR Guidance Note on Refugee Claims relating to Sexual Orientation
and Gender Identity.

Authors: UNHCR.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/48abd5660.html
Source: UNHCR RefWorld – http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain (Web)

Additional Info: The Guidance Note seeks to provide guidance on both substantive and procedural elements to be considered in deciding on refugee claims made
by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals relating to their
sexual orientation and gender identity. The Note supplements and should
be read in conjunction with UNHCR's Guidelines on International
Protection: Gender-Related Persecution Within the Context of Article
1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol Relating to the
Status of Refugees, available at
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3d36f1c64.html. More
specifically, the Note examines the relevant human rights and refugee
legal framework as well as analyses the criteria in the refugee
definition contained in the 1951 Convention, including the concept of
persecution and persecutory practices in the context of sexual
orientation and gender identity. The Note also builds on legislative and
jurisprudential developments at the international, regional and national
level.

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Title: Strategies to Support the HIV-related Needs of Refugees and Host
Populations

Authors: UNHCR.
Publication Date: October 2005.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/FBUO-7LLHNP?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

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Title: Manual for conducting HIV Behavioral Surveillance Surveys among
Displaced Populations and their Surrounding Communities

Authors: UNHCR.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/FBUO-7LLHFW?OpenDocument
Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

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Title: Children and Armed Conflict in the DRC.

Authors: UN.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2008/693
Source: UN Pulse – http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf (Web)

Additional Info: The report of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been issued (S/2008/693). This is the third report for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and covers the period from June 2007 to September 2008.

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Title: Central African Republic: Untangling the Political Dialogue

Authors: International Crisis Group.

Publication Date: 9^th December 2008.

Publication URL Address: http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5800&l=1

Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int/ (Web)

Additional Info: Africa Briefing N°55.

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Title: Counting the civilian cost of the Georgia-Russia conflict

Authors: Amnesty International.
Publication Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR04/005/2008/en/d9908665-ab55-11dd-a4cd-bfa0fdea9647/eur040052008eng.pdf
Source: Amnesty International – http://www.amnesty.org/ (Web)

Additional Info: Summary
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR04/006/2008/en/dbce17e6-b7c5-11dd-815b-41d2a2d20aef/eur040062008en.pdf

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