Dear List Members,
Below please find references to new online publications, journal/newsletter
issues, events and opportunities, and web sites.
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**Online Publications**
Bridging the Gap: Involuntary Population Movement and Reconstruction Strategy
(Aug. 2003) - http://www.btgproject.org/resources/btgbooklet.pdf (182 pages,
in PDF)
- Final report for ECHO-funded research project.
ECRE Country Report for 2002 (Sept. 2003) -
http://www.ecre.org/publications/countryrpt02.shtml
- 25 country chapters with reports on legal and policy developments, and
asylum stats.
Fifty-Fourth Session of the Executive Committee, Geneva, 29 Sept.-3 Oct. 2003 -
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/excom
- Agenda and provisional documents available; click on "2003 ExCom Meeting."
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally
Displaced Persons – Guidelines for Prevention and Response (May 2003) -
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home?page=PROTECT&id=3b83a48d4 (158
pages, in PDF)
- Launched by UNHCR on September 19; revision of first edition published in
1995.
Standards in Refugee Emergencies - http://www.the-ecentre.net/news/index.cfm?
fuseaction=view&id=136
- Brief report of a workshop held in July for NGOs in the Asia-Pacific region.
State of the World's Refugees - http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home?
page=research&id=3b850c744
- For info., all editions are now available on the Evaluation and Policy
Analysis Section of the UNHCR web site (see right-hand column).
Updated Profile on Internal Displacement in the Syrian Arab Republic (Sept.
2003) -
http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/IdpProjectDb/idpSurvey.nsf/wCountries/Syrian
+Arab+Republic
**Journals/Newsletters**
Africa Refugee Rights News -
http://www.lchr.org/intl_refugees/intl_refugees_news/newsletter_03.htm (full-
text)
- "New email and web based newsletter focusing on issues affecting refugee
protection in Africa" from the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
Conflict Trends, no. 2/2003 -
http://www.accord.org.za/web.nsf/Pub\ConflictTrends2003-2!OpenPage (full-text)
- Special issue on refugees.
Development in Practice, vol. 13, no. 4 (2003) -
http://www.developmentinpractice.org/abstracts/vol13/v13n04.htm (contents and
abstracts)
Disasters, vol. 27, no. 3 (Sept. 2003) -
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/issue.asp?ref=0361-3666&vid=27&iid=3&oc=&s
International Migration, vol. 41, no. 3 (Sept. 2003) -
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/issue.asp?ref=0020-7985&vid=41&iid=3&oc=&s
(contents, abstracts)
- Focus is on Chinese migration.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 29, no. 4 (July 2003) -
http://fidelio.ingentaselect.com/vl=2602129/cl=63/nw=1/rpsv/cw/carfax/1369183x/
v29n4/contp1-1.htm (contents and abstracts)
Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 16, no. 3 (June 2003) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/refuge/current/
Refugees Magazine, no. 132 (Sept. 2003) - http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-
bin/texis/vtx/publ (full-text)
- Theme is "The Changing Face of Protection."
**Events & Opportunities**
28th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, 2-6
December 2003 - http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/conf28?
OpenDocument
- Theme is "Protecting Human Dignity."
ALNAP 14th Biannual Meeting: Learning, Accountability, Quality in Humanitarian
Action, Tufts University, 16-17 October 2003 -
http://www.alnap.org/biannualagenda_oct03.htm
- Hosted by the Feinstein International Famine Center.
Surviving, Resisting, and Reshaping Conflict: Women's Experiences, Clark
University, 9-10 October 2003 -
http://www.clarku.edu/departments/idce/conference.htm
**Web Sites**
African Conflict Journal - http://www.africanconflict.org/index.php
- Portal providing information on peace and conflict developments in Africa.
Crisis Watch - http://crisiswatch.barcelona2004.org/observatorio/home_i.htm
- A "web service for information and analysis of the world's 'hot spots' of
conflict." Not to be confused with the International Crisis Group's monthly
bulletin with the same name.
E-Mine: The Electronic Mine Information Network - http://www.mineaction.org/
Humanitarian Information Network - http://www.reliefweb.int/hin/index1.htm
- OCHA/ReliefWeb initiative to promote use of "information management tools to
strengthen information exchange." Includes newsletter, library with full-text
docs.
Elisa Mason
Forced Migration Online
http://www.forcedmigration.org
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