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journal/newsletter issues, events & opportunities, and web sites.
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**Online Resources**
EMPIRICAL Virtual Library Project -
http://www.yorku.ca/crs/empirical_project.htm
- Virtual library housing video footage on immigration and refugee issues;
promoted as useful tool for educational purposes.
Feinstein International Famine Center, Second Round of Working Papers -
http://famine.tufts.edu/index.html?id=57
- Titles include: "Refugee Resources, Security Threats and State Building",
Karen Jacobsen; "The International Operational Response to the
Psychological Wounds of War: Understanding and Improving Psycho-social
Interventions", Laura McDonald; "Traditional Early Warning Systems and
Coping Strategies for Drought among Pastoralist Communities Northeastern
Province, Kenya," Christopher Pratt.
The Need for a More Focused Response: European Donor Policies toward
Internally Displaced Persons (30 January 2002) (Brookings Institution-CUNY
Project on Internal Displacement, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and the
U.S. Committee for Refugees) -
http://www.db.idpproject.org/weekly_news/weekly_news.htm
Nordic Africa Institute, New Publications -
http://www.nai.uu.se/webbshop/ShopGB/index.html
- Click on "Electronic Publications" for PDF versions.
"Process issues: An argument for inclusion of grass-roots communities in the
formulation of national and international initiatives in re-building
Afghanistan," by Sukanya Mohan Das, Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (2
February 2002) - http://www.jha.ac/articles/a076.htm
"Refugee Resettlement Endangered" (U.S. Committee for Refugees, Jan. 2002) -
http://www.refugees.org/news/crisis/resettlement/index.htm
Report of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination,
Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, A/CONF.189/12 (25 January 2002) -
http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/A.Conf.189.12.En?Opendo
cument
**Journals/Newsletters**
Women's Asylum News, 17 January 2002 -
http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/RWRP/women's%20asylum%20news.htm
- E-mail version now available, but not yet posted online; contact
[log in to unmask] for current edition.
Yellow Monday, 4 February 2002 -
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/news/ymonday/index.html
**Events & Opportunities**
Call for Papers: Protection or Exclusion: Refugee Policy in the New Security
Environment (Centre for Refugee Studies, Canada) -
http://www.yorku.ca/crs/publications.htm
- Deadline for contributions to this issue of Refuge is 15 April; see web
site for author instructions; email editor Lene Madsen at [log in to unmask]
for more info.
Conference to Defend Asylum Seekers, Manchester, 23 March 2002 -
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/letters/news25/conference.html
Expert Witness Database -
http://www.asylumlaw.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=showNewsItem&siteNewsID=65
- Asylumlaw.org's "newest feature is a database of expert witnesses you can
contact to provide testimony or affidavits in asylum cases."
Global Refugees Conference, Staffordshire University, UK, 17-19 April 2002 -
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/sociology
- Aim is to "better understand the experiences of displacement, exile and
diaspora, within the context of globalisation." RSC director, Stephen
Castles, will be the keynote speaker.
ODI February Meetings 2002 - http://www.odi.org.uk/feb2002.html
- Includes "A bridge too far: aid agencies and the military in humanitarian
response."
Short Course: Palestinian Refugees and the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, Refugee Studies Centre, 11th and 12th May 2002 -
http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/rsc/main_short.html
**Web Sites**
Global IDP Project - http://www.idpproject.org/
- Re-designed with improved navigation; see related article in the project's
Jan. 2002 newsletter at
http://www.idpproject.org/IDP_project/newsletter_Jan02.pdf.
Indigenous Peoples - http://www.unhchr.ch/indigenous/main.html
- New sub-section on the UNHCHR site.
Peru in "The Eye of the Storm" -
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB64/
- Declassified documents on human rights violations in Peru.
Elisa Mason
Information Manager, Forced Migration Online
Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford
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