Dear List Members,
Below please find FMO Tips, and references to new online publications,
journal/newsletter issues, events & opportunities, and web sites.
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1. FMO Tips (http://www.forcedmigration.org)
The FMO Organizations Directory currently contains contact details and web
addresses for over 1000 organizations. You can locate information by typing
in a simple keyword search or via the Advanced search screen, which allows
you to search for entries by country and/or organization type.
Suggestions for additions to FMO's various resource components can be made
using the feedback forms available at
http://www.forcedmigration.org/feedback/.
2. New or Updated Web-Based Resources
**Online Publications**
"Updated profile of the situation of internal displacement in Georgia,"
Global IDP Project (March 2003) -
http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wCountries/Georgia
"In the Name of Counter-Terrorism: Human Rights Abuses Worldwide," Human
Rights Watch (March 2003) -
http://hrw.org/un/chr59/counter-terrorism-bck.htm
"Rapport sur la Tunisie," Centre pour l'indépendance des magistrats et des
avocats de la Commission internationale de juristes (March 2003) -
http://www.icj.org/news.php3?id_article=2761&lang=en
"Sudan IDP Crisis Deepens," Global IDP Project (March 2003) -
http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wCountries/Sudan
**Journals/Newsletters**
Human Rights Brief, vol. 10, no, 2 (Winter 2003) -
http://www.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief/102.cfm (full-text)
International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 14, nos. 2&3 (April 2002) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/reflaw/hdb/Volume_14/Issue_02/ (contents, abstracts)
- Note: OUP is offering a free online trial of this issue of IJRL for three
months; go to
http://www3.oup.co.uk/oup-bin/trial?.State=entry;subs_no=90007097 to
register.
Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 16, no. 1 (March 2003) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/refuge/hdb/Volume_16/Issue_01/ (contents, abstracts)
Refuge, vol. 21, no. 1 (Nov. 2002) -
http://www.yorku.ca/crs/refuge_-_volume_21,_issue_no__1.htm (full-text)
- Focus is on the causes and consequences of population displacements.
**Events & Opportunities**
AUC Seminar Series, Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, American
University in Cairo, 2 April - 14 May 2003 -
http://www.aucegypt.edu/academic/fmrs/Outreach/outreach.html#Wednesday
- Held Wednesdays; see URL for schedule.
Conflict & Coordination Across International Regimes, ASIL 97th Annual
Meeting, Washington, DC, 2-5 April 2003 -
http://www.asil.org/annual_meeting/program.htm
"Migration" Theme for 2003-4, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social
Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) -
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/themes/migration.html
- Activities relating to international migration will include a refugee
conferrence and various symposia.
Summer Course on Refugee Law, Strasbourg, 16-27 June 2003 -
http://www.iidh.org/pages_a/cours_a.html
- Sponsored by International Institute of Human Rights and UNHCR, offered in
French only.
Summer Course: The European System of Human Rights Protection,
Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), 8-19 September 2003 -
http://www.hrcourse.euv-frankfurt-o.de
**Web Sites**
Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) -
http://www2.qeh.ox.ac.uk/crise/crise.html
- New centre based at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University; scheduled to
commence activities 1 April 2003.
Humanitarian Information Center for Iraq - http://www.agoodplacetostart.org
- This new OCHA site "acts as a central location for data and information
resources, with the aim of reinforcing co-ordination and humanitarian
response activities."
Humanitarian Times - http://www.humanitariantimes.org
- Still under construction, but provides useful and current headlines of
news and developments in the humanitarian community.
Iraq Emergency - http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/iraq
- UNHCR's news and information page for Iraq.
Refugee Law Project, Makerere University - http://www.refugeelawproject.org
- Includes downloads for all its research publications.
Elisa Mason
Information Manager, Forced Migration Online
Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford
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