Dear List Members,
Below please find references to new online publications, journal/newsletter
issues, events & opportunities, and web sites.
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**Online Publications**
Asylumlaw.org -
http://www.asylumlaw.org/countries/index.cfm?fuseaction=showDocuments&countr
yID=0
- The Human Rights Documentation Exchange, an NGO that specialized in
country of origin information, has donated its 39 packets of country
research materials to Asylumlaw.org, which in turn has made them available
in PDF on its site (see list at a/m URL). Each packet contains articles and
reports organized thematically. A treasure trove of information for anyone
conducting country conditions research.
Good Practices: Information Sharing in Complex Emergencies. Report from a
Roundtable on Humanitarian-Military Sharing. 2001 Worldwide Civil Affairs
Conference (Jan. 2002; online as of March 2002) -
http://www.usip.org/vdi/vdr/11.html
HPCR Central Asia. Policy Brief (13 March 2002) -
http://www.preventconflict.org/portal/centralasia/Brief4vol1.pdf
- Focus is on humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan; includes article on
internal displacement.
"The New Asylum Rule: Improved but Still Unfair," by M. Pistone & P. Schrag,
Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 16, no. 1 (2001) -
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=302794
UK Immigration, Nationality and Asylum Bill (April 2002) -
http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/news.asp?NewsID=131 or
http://www.asylumsupport.info/thenewbill.htm
"War & Accountability," Forum no. 3 (March 2002) -
http://www.icrc.org/eng/ihf
**Journals/Newsletters**
Accord no. 11: Protracted Conflict, Elusive Peace: Initiatives to end the
violence in northern Uganda - http://www.c-r.org/accord/accord11/
(full-text)
Global Review of Ethnopolitics, vol. 1, no. 3 (March 2002) -
http://www.ethnopolitics.org/ (full-text)
Humanitarian Exchange, no. 20 (March 2002) -
http://www.odihpn.org/pdfbin/exchange20.pdf (full-text)
International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 13, no. 4 (October 2001) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/reflaw/hdb/Volume_13/Issue_04 (table of contents,
abstracts)
Refugees Magazine, no. 126 (April 2001) -
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home (full-text; click on title in
right-hand column)
- Focus is on refugee women.
**Events & Opportunities**
Anthropology and the Health of Populations, Brunel University, UK, 20-22
June 2002 - http://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/cshsd/
- One aim of this conference, among others, is to "reflect on the growing
body of work being undertaken in recent years on the cultural aspects of
public health issues, locally, nationally and internationally."
International Conference on Women, Migration and Human Rights, University
Hassan II Ain Chock, Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences,
Casablanca, Morocco, 26 and 27 April 2002
- "The main themes of the conference will be dealing with: 1) Relation
between human rights and women's migration, 2) Refugee and displaced women's
rights, 3) Women in their host countries, 4) Promoting studies and research
in women's migration." Email [log in to unmask] for more info. The conference
will be followed by a meeting of the Governing Board of the UNITWIN/UNESCO
Network on Forced Migration. See the announcement for this meeting at
http://unesco-netfm.yu.edu.jo/announcements.htm.
Weekly Seminars on Forced Migration -
http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/rsc/main_seminars.html
- RSC's latest line-up of seminars.
**Web Sites**
Bitterlemons.org - http://bitterlemons.org/
- Online journal that focuses on the Middle East crisis; presents
Palestinian and Israeli views on the main issues.
Language Dictionaries and Translators -
http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html
Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force - http://www.lgirtf.org/
NGO Disaster Mitigation & Preparedness Project -
http://www.redcross.org.uk/dmp
- Project that is "looking at the role that non-governmental organisations
(NGOs) can play in reducing the threat of disasters." Related article on
the recent research in this area on p. 26 of Humanitarian Exchange
(referenced above).
Elisa Mason
Information Manager, Forced Migration Online
Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford
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