Dear List Members,

Below please find new online publications,
periodicals, events & opportunities, and web sites.
Please pass along any useful references you come
across, and I can incorporate them into future
updates.

**Online Publications**

Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from
the Islamic Republic of Iran (UNHCR/CDR, Jan. 2001) -
http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/country/cdr/iran0101.pdf

Clearinghouse Review (Institut International de la
Democratie, Feb. 2001) -
http://www.iidemocracy.coe.int/cgi-bin.CHR/chreview.htm
- Organized by section: conferences, courses,
publications; useful tool for current awareness.

Guide to Country Research for Refugee Status
Determination (Elisa Mason, Feb. 2001) -
http://www.llrx.com/features/rsd.htm
- Includes extensive listing of links in Annex.

The Latin American View on the Doctrine of
Humanitarian Intervention (Hernan Vales, Feb. 2001) -
http://www.jha.ac/articles/a064.htm
- Posted on the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs.

Somalia: A Situation Analysis (WriteNet, Nov. 2000) -
http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/country/writenet/wn07_00.pdf

**Periodicals**

African Journal on Conflict Resolution, vol. 1, no. 2,
2000 -
http://www.accord.org.za/publications/j2/foreword.htm
(full-text)

Disasters, vol. 25, no. 1, March 2001-
http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=0361-3666&src=arc&vid=25&iid=1
(table of contents, abstracts)

ICRC Review, no. 840, Dec. 2000 -
http://www.icrc.org/eng/review (full-text; also in
French)

International Migration Review, vol. 34, no. 4, Winter
2000 -
http://cmsny.org/cmspage3.htm#4 (abstracts); Spring
2001 (forthcoming) -
http://cmsny.org/cmspage3.htm#Spring (focus will be
"UNHCR at 50: Past, Present and Future of Refugee
Assistance")

Journal of Traumatic Stress, vol. 14, no. 1, Jan. 2001
-
http://www.wkap.nl/issuetoc.htm/0894-9867+14+1+2001
(table of contents, abstracts)

Refugees, vol. 4, no. 121, 2000 -
http://www.unhcr.ch/pubs/rm121/rm121all.pdf
(full-text; focuses on violence against aid workers)

**Events/Opportunities**

Africa and the African Diaspora: Past, Present and
Future, 15-18 Nov. 2001, Houston, Texas -
http://www.africanstudies.org/

Europe and the Asia-Pacific: Culture, Identify and
Representations of Region, Norwich, UK, 10-11 May 2001
- Organized by the Centre for Research in European
Studies in association with the UEA Asia-Pacific
Group; for more information and registration
forms, contact Dr Michael Drake, [log in to unmask]

Global Consultations on International Protection
(UNHCR) -
http://www.unhcr.ch/issues/asylum/globalconsult/main.htm
- Includes a general calendar of events and an
"Overview of Events relating to the Protection of
Refugee Women and Refugee Children"

International Calendar (Conferences, Courses and Other
Events) -
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/iall.html#conferences
- Links to resources that inform about upcoming
conferences in the area of international law.

Sharing Tools for Personal/Global Harmony, 9th Annual
International Conference on Conflict Resolution, St.
Petersburg, Russia, 10-20 May 2001 -
http://ahpweb.org/cbi/icr.html
- Sponsored by the Common Bond Institute and the
Harmony Institute; see above for conference goals and
call for proposals.

6th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study
of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, 5-7 April
2001 - http://asn.uno.edu

Summer Course on Refugee Issues, 16-24 June 2001 -
http://www.yorku.ca/crs/Summer_Course.htm
- Application forms and other info. available at a/m
URL.

Theory, Practice and Perspectives of Education,
Multicultural Upbringing and Adaptation of
Children-migrants and Their Families in the Modern
World -
http://rspu.edu.ru/conference/conf_eng.htm
- Note: This URL was not working when I checked it,
but it may just have been a temporary server problem.

Towards an EU Asylum Policy? Stagiaire Conference, 21
February, Charlemagne Building, Room S3, Rue de la Loi
170, Brussels
- For info. only! This announcement may be of interest
to those who would like to obtain any conference
documents that are generated; contact C. Marmier
([log in to unmask]) or S. Vega-Vega
([log in to unmask]).

World Conference against Racism, 31 Aug.-7 Sept. 2001,
Durban, South Africa - other conference-related URLs
include:
- NGO Forum - http://racism.org.za
- NGO Connection - http://www.ngoworldconference.org/
- WCAR/HRI - http://www.hri.ca/racism/
- The NGO Liaison also maintains a listserve to
distribute briefing notes and other important
information or documentation. To be added to this
mailing list, just send a message to Laurie Wiseberg
at
[log in to unmask]
- SAMP has posted a list of resources on "Xenophobia
in South Africa" at
http://www.queensu.ca/samp/Resources/Resource.htm.

**Web Sites**

EurasiaNet.org - http://www.eurasianet.org
- "EurasiaNet provides information and analysis about
political, economic, environmental and social
developments in the countries of Central Asia and
the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East,
and Southwest Asia." Includes selected articles in
Russian.

Minelres: Directory of Resources on Minority Human
Rights and Related Problems of the Transition Period
in Eastern and Central Europe -
http://www.riga.lv/minelres
- In addition to organizational links, includes
country and minority information sections, selected
publications and a mailing list.

Rio+10: The World Summit on Sustainable Development -
http://www.un.org/rio+10/index.html
- Gives background and information on preparations for
the upcoming World Summit in 2002.

Virtual Library of Internet resources on national and
ethnic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe and
the Former Soviet Union -
http://lgi.osi.hu/ethnic/WebLibrary
- "The aim of this virtual library of websites is to
provide researchers, scholars, rights advocates, and
professionals engaged in policy making and design for
multi-ethnic communities with guidance and assistance
in accessing information on national and ethnic
minorities in CEE and the FSU available on the
Internet."

Elisa Mason
Information Officer, Forced Migration Portal Project
Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford
http://www.forcedmigration.org/portal/home/homepage.htm


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