Dear List Members,
Below please find references to new online publications, events &
opportunities, and web sites.
**Please note that long URLs may break into two lines in some mail readers.
Cut and paste each line of the URL, if this happens.**
**Online Publications & Other Resources**
Food Insecurity in Afghanistan 1999-2002 (2002) -
http://famine.tufts.edu/pages/62/
- Includes executive summary, full report in PDF and powerpoint
presentation.
Global Report 2001 (June 2002) -
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/template/+2wLFqPp1xceUh5cTPeUzknwBoqeR
S3n+XXWeRS3n+XXWBdqeIybnM
- "[P]rovides a detailed description of UNHCR programmes and activities...
."
Interview with UNRWA Deputy Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd (1 July
2002) - http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=30
Picturing it - http://www.eldis.org/tales/picturingit.htm
- Article from ELDIS on how to locate photos for your web site.
Women Immigrants 1945 to the Present: A Bibliography (updated May 2002) -
http://www.towson.edu/~hofstet/
World Disasters Report 2002 - http://www.ifrc.org/PUBLICAT/wdr2002/index.asp
- Summary version (although quite extensive); focus is on risk reduction.
**Events & Opportunities**
Weekly Seminars on Forced Migration -
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rspnet/main_seminars.html
- Fall line-up of seminars sponsored by the Refugee Studies Centre.
**Web Sites**
Humanitarian Information Centre for the occupied Palestinian territory -
http://www.reliefweb.int/hic-opt/
- Includes news, background documents, emergency reports, and maps.
Japan Association for Refugees - http://www.refugee.or.jp/ (requires
interface for reading Japanese characters)
Legislationonline -
http://www.legislationline.org/index.php?topic=0&subtopic=0&subsubtopic=0&in
tst=0&eu=0&country=0
- "[P]rovided by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
(ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
It compiles international texts and domestic legislation in the OSCE region
(55 countries located in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Europe and North
America) dealing with the rule of law and the protection of human rights and
fundamental freedoms." Users can search by theme or country; currently, no
texts available under "migration" topic, but almost 400 texts are available
under "Trafficking in Human Beings" topic.
Elisa Mason
Information Manager, Forced Migration Online
Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford
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