Dear List Members,
Below please find new online publications, periodical
issues, events & opportunities, and web sites. If you
come across any useful web-based resources,
particularly in other languages, please don't hesitate
to let me know.
**Online Publications**
Gender and Humanitarian Assistance Resource Kit (IASC,
2001) - http://www.reliefweb.int/library/GHARkit/
Handbook for Defining and Setting up a Food Security
Information and Early Warning System (Food and
Agriculture Organization, 2000) -
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/003/X8622e/X8622e00.pdf
- in PDF format.
Shadow Plays: Refugees and Internally Displaced
Persons in Indonesia (U.S. Committee for Refugees,
2001) -
http://www.refugees.org/pub/indonesia_ip_012001.cfm
World Bank's Revised Draft Policy on Involuntary
Resettlement (OP/BP 4.12) (2001) -
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/essd.nsf/81f3f0192ec0edee852567eb0062fb33/ecce741f851ed3ca852567ed004c9be8?OpenDocument
**Periodicals**
Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 13, no. 4 (December
2000) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/refuge/hdb/Volume_13/Issue_04/
(table of contents, abstracts)
**Events & Opportunities**
Expanding Horizons: Database for Expertise on Gender
and Ethnicity in European Curricula -
http://www.iiav.nl/horizons/
- Opportunity to profile your courses, teaching
methods, or expertise in a searchable database.
NGOs and the Military in Complex Emergencies, Wilton
Park, UK, 23-26 April 2001 -
http://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/conferences/getpage.html?programmes/conflict.html
Sustainable Food Security for All by 2020: An
International Conference, Bonn, Germany, 4-6
September, 2001 -
http://www.ifpri.cgiar.org/2020conference/program/program.asp
World Refugee Day, 20 June 2001 -
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/55/a55r076.pdf
- Officially designated in a/m General Assembly
resolution; I'm not aware of one site that has
comprehensive info. on the various events around the
world that are being planned (although
http://www.unhcr-50.org lists a few).
**Web Sites**
Human Rights Watch - http://www.hrw.org
- Recently re-designed; includes separate section on
"refugees" with a link to all relevant HRW reports;
the publications' section includes a link to the
latest titles published (currently, 5 available for
March 2001), as well as reports available by date or
country.
ID21: Development Research Reporting Service -
http://www.id21.org
- The site has been re-organized recently; "aims to
make policymakers and on-the-ground development
managers aware of the latest and best in British
development research findings"; for example, click on
"ID21 Society & Economy," then "Emgergencies" to
access over 30 digests that report on recent research
studies.
Ministero della Sanita -
http://www.sanita.it/sanita/bacheca/Welcome/default.htm
- Italian; "Il Ministero della Sanità ha realizzato
numerosi prodotti per la tutela della salute degli
immigrati in Italia." (Thanks for Sarah Bernhardt for
this reference!)
Polish Refugee Library -
http://studweb.euv-frankfurt-o.de/~euv-6732/refugee.html
- Includes links to news resources, info. on Eastern
Europe, and related organizations, as well as reports;
available in English, German and Polish.
Refugee Rights Project -
http://www.lhr.org.za/refugee/refugeenav.htm
- A Lawyers for Human Rights project in South Africa;
includes recently updated list of links to relevant
international instruments, South African policy and
legislation, South African policy development, UNHCR,
case law, South African links, and international
links. (Thanks to Jeff Handmaker for this reference!)
Elisa Mason
Information Officer, Forced Migration Online
Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
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