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Monday, 15 February 2010
News Story Updates (15 Feb. 2010)
The Daily Telegraph (14/02/10): How to queue correctly
The Daily Telegraph (14/02/10): Queue here, please
The Daily Telegraph (13/02/10): Immigrants to be taught how to queue
Torture
The Independent (15/02/10): Bruce Anderson: We not only have a right to use torture. We have a duty
The Daily Telegraph (13/02/10): MI5 officers diverted from counter-terrorism to fight 'torture' court cases
The Daily Telegraph (11/02/10): MI5 chief defends agency over torture cover-up claims
Darfur
Amnesty International (11/02/10): Darfuri refugees exposed to increased attacks if UN withdraws from Chad
New York Times (11/02/10): Darfur Refugees Say to Boycott Sudan Election
Somailia
The Press Association (13/02/10): UN braced for mass Somalia exodus
BBC News (12/02/10): Thousands flee Somalia fighting, says UN refugee agency
BNP
The Independent (15/02/10): BNP votes in favour of non-whites
The Times (15/02/10): The day the BNP said it had changed its ways
BBC News (14/02/10): BNP votes to ditch whites-only membership rule
General Refugee Related News Stories
The Independent (15/02/10): Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The closed minds that deny a civilisation's glories
The Guardian (13/02/10): The beautiful ghost of big government
BBC News (13/02/10): Burma timeline
The Daily Telegraph (13/02/10): Immigration: a plan to alter the nation's soul
The Daily Telegraph (12/02/10): Illegal immigrants handed compensation for wrongful detention
The Guardian (12/02/10): Unemployed take on immigrants' jobs for Evan Davis documentary
Amnesty International (12/02/10): Iran’s report to UN paints distorted picture on human rights
The Guardian (12/02/10): Hunger strikers at immigration centre tell of squalid conditions
Human Rights Watch (12/02/10): Zimbabwe: One Year On, Reform a Failure
Human Rights Watch (11/02/10): Postcard From...Tripoli
BBC News (11/02/10): Timeline: Somalia
Reuters AlertNet (11/02/10): ESCAPING THE HORN: Desperate Somalis defy law, costs to cross into Kenya
Reuters (10/02/10): UN closes Palestinian camp on Syria-Iraq border
Amnesty International (10/02/10): Zimbabwe: Abuse of human rights continues under unity government
Thursday, 30 October 2008
New Journal and Newsletter Volumes
Please find below a list of new and journal and newsletter releases relating to 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. Alternatively, a link will be given to the associated Table of Contents, (ToC). 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: Migrants Rights News
Volume: 11.
Date: October 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/enews/2008/october.htm
Source: Institute for Race Relations - http://www.irr.org.uk/ (Web)
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Title: International Review of the Red Cross
Volume: Volume 90 Number 870.
Date: October June 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/section_review_2008_870?OpenDocument
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)
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Title: Journal of Humanitarian Assistance
Volume: Latest Article Release –
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Publication URL Address: http://jha.ac/2008/10/25/humanitarian-action-on-the-battlefields-of-the-global-war-on-terror/
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)
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Title: Women's Asylum News
Volume: Number 78.
Date: October / November 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/publications.php?category=5&search=Search
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)
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Title: Journal of Peace Research
Volume: Volume 45 Number 6.
Date: November 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/vol45/issue6/
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web)
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Title: Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture
Volume: Volume 18 Number 2.
Date: 2008.
Publication URL Address: http://www.irct.org/Default.aspx?ID=3699
Source: IRCT - http://www.irct.org/ (Web)
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Tuesday, 8 July 2008
New Periodicals
Ten years of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. A Special Issue of Forced Migration Review is now available via the Forced Migration review web site at: www.fmreview.org/GuidingPrinci
(Source: Forced Migration Discussion List - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk
The Refugee Women's Resource Project (RWRP) at Asylum Aid has published issue no.76 of 'Women's Asylum News'.
Download the issue at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/RWRP
(Source: Institute for Race Relations News - http://www.irr.org.uk/).
Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 17, no. 1 (2008) [contents]
- Includes an article on displacement from the Three Gorges dam in
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).
Conflict Trends, no. 1 (2008) [full-text]
- Tenth anniversary issue.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).
Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 17, no. 3 (2008) [contents]
- Special issue on "Social perspectives on disasters in
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).
Field Exchange, no. 33 (June 2008) [full-text]
- Focus is on nutrition problems.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).
Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 21 (Spring 2008) [full-text]
- Mix of articles on human rights.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).
International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 20, no. 1 (March 2008) [contents]
- Articles examine the EU refugee qualification directive, Canadian refugee status determination (RSD), Canadian jurisprudence, and the relationship between the ICC and RSD.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (June 2008) [full-text]
- New article added entitled "Have Islamic aid agencies a privileged relationship in majority Muslim areas? The case of post-tsunami reconstruction in Aceh."
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).
Journal of International Migration and Integration, vol. 9, no. 2 (June 2008) [contents]
- Theme of this issue is "Attracting new arrivals to smaller cities and rural communities: findings from
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).
Torture Journal, vol. 18, no. 1 (2008) [full-text]
- Includes several articles on the impact of trauma and exposure to conflict on various populations, including displaced Turkish Cypriots.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).
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