New Web Resources

Audit Commission website on migrant workers
http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/migrantworkers/

This website expands on the Audit Commission’s report Crossing Borders published in 2007, which looked at the varying impact that the increase in migration for work has had in different parts of England. The website includes additional and expanded case study material, with a particular focus on data issues and on engaging with migrant workers themselves. One of the case studies (no 11) looks at changes to Cumbria’s library service. (Source: Welcome To Your Library Digest – http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/).

UNHCR Statistics Update:

We are pleased to inform you that updated statistics on monthly asylum
applications submitted in selected industrialised countries are now
available. The data, which include country totals as well as selected
countries of origin, cover the period from January to June 2008 and refer to
44 countries in Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania. The data have been
posted on the UNHCR Statistics website (www.unhcr.org/statistics) under
ASYLUM TRENDS.

Iraqis in Egypt Website:

Since the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003, almost 2.5 million Iraqis
have fled their homes to seek asylum in neighbouring countries.
Now Iraqis in Egypt brings you the first ever in-depth online resource
into one of these refugee populations. Close to 150,000 refugees from Iraq are now trapped in Egypt. They have little hope of integration and no home to return to.

Iraqis in Egypt:

We are an association of journalists, filmmakers, artists and researchers working together with the Iraqi community of Egypt to bring world attention to this unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

Visit iraqisinegypt.org now for the latest media releases, films, podcasts and more.
http://www.iraqisinegypt.org/. Contact us on: info@iraqisinegypt.org

IDMC: Interactive Senegal photo gallery

A photo gallery showing villages affected by internal displacement in Senegal's Casamance region is now available to view. Estimates of the number of people internally displaced in the region range between 10,000 and 70,000. Although armed attacks against civilians along the southern border with Guinea-Bissau were reported in the first few months of 2008, people have continued to return to their homes where possible.

The pictures, taken by photographer Martin Evans, show some of the challenges and successes of the villages' reconstruction. View the gallery
(Source: IDMC - http://www.internal-displacement.org/)

Posted in: Web Sites & Tools.

New Periodicals and Newsletters

Refugee Survey Quarterly Table of Contents for ASYLUM AND ISLAM: 2008; Vol. 27, No. 2. The table of contents is available online via Oxford Journals at: http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl

Red Hand Campaign Newsletter 2 August 2008 http://www.child-soldiers.org/document/get?id=1544

(Source: Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers - www.child-soldiers.org)

The Migrants Rights Network has published its August 2008 Newsletter.
View the newsletter at:
http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/enews/2008/august.htm
(Source: IRR News - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has published issue no.14 of its Echoes Newsletter.
Download the newsletter at: http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/echoes_fourteen.pdf (pdf file, 512kb)

(Source: IRR News - http://www.irr.org.uk/).

Posted in: Periodicals.

New film: 'Iraqis in Egypt: Time is Running Out"

The film 'Iraqis in Egypt: Time is Running Out' is now available to view
on the Forced Migration Online website.

This documentary film looks at the lives of six Iraqi families who have
been forced to flee their homes and are now living as refugees in the
massive urban sprawl of Cairo. As the years pass by, their situations
are becoming increasingly desperate, with little or no rights in their
country of first asylum.


Iraqis in Egypt: Time is Running Out:
http://www.forcedmigration.org/video/iraqis-in-egypt/

More videos can be viewed at:
http://forcedmigration.org/video/

To learn more & to find out how you can help, visit:
http://www.iraqisinegypt.org/


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Iraqis in Jordan Podcast

Iraqis in Jordan Podcast:

The ninth Forced Migration Online podcast is now online. The
podcast was recorded in Amman, Jordan in December 2007 with
additional interviews recorded in February 2008. The Amman
recordings include interviews with a number of Iraqis now living
in Jordan from a range of backgrounds and current situations. The
podcast includes comments from Rana Sweis UNHCR, Amman and Dana
Graber Ladek International Organisation for Migration (IMO), Iraq.
http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/iraqis-in-jordan/
(Source: FMO Discussion List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html).

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Iraqi Refugees

From Refugees International:

Iraqi Refugees: Time for the UN System to Fully Engage

"There is not enough attention on the fact that four million people have been displaced and they live in very, very difficult circumstances, some of them, both inside Iraq and outside Iraq."
- Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, April 17, 2007

Despite these words from the Secretary General, the United Nations has yet to respond adequately to the Iraqi refugee crisis. The UN regional response remains weak, and while the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) plays an increasingly positive role, other UN agencies have failed to be proactive in their response to the crisis. Coordination between agencies is inadequate, and leadership from UN Resident Representatives on the issue of Iraqi refugees has also been lacking. The UN as a whole must put the Secretary General's words into action in the near future and exert the political and operational will to respond in a coordinated and effective manner to their needs.

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