Dear List Members,
Below please find references to new online publications, journal/newsletter
issues, events and opportunities, and web sites. Several additional
references to other types of resources are also included.
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**Iran Earthquake**
Visit the following selected information resources for updates and situation
reports on developments relating to the devastating earthquake in Iran:
AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/emergency/IR_EAR.htm
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies -
http://www.ifrc.org/
IRIN News - http://www.irinnews.org/
ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLND/7EC594185BED1573C1256E080035F1EE?
OpenDocument&StartKey=Iran:+Earthquake+-+Dec+2003&ExpandView
**Online Publications**
Declaration of the 28th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red
Crescent "Protecting Human Dignity" (6 Dec. 2003) -
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/5TYETB?OpenDocument
- Also in PDF; other conference docs. available at
http://www.icrc.org/eng/conf28.
European Good Practice on Recovery, Return and Integration of Trafficked
Persons (9 Dec. 2003) - http://www.kvinnoforum.se/PDF/goodpratice.pdf
Iraq: Building a New Security Structure (23 Dec. 2003) -
http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=2433
IRIN Web Special on child soldiers (12 Dec. 2003) -
http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/childsoldiers/
Migration, public health and compulsory screening for TB and HIV, Asylum and
Migration Working Paper 1 - http://www.ippr.org/publications/index.php?
book=400
Refugee Protection in Regions of Origin: Potential and Challenges (1 Dec.
2003) - http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=182
State of the World’s Children 2004 - http://www.unicef.org/sowc04/index.html
- Focus is on girls’ education; available in English, French and Spanish.
"Tough as Old Boots?" Asylum, Immigration, and the Paradox of New Labour
Policy - http://www.jcwi.org.uk/publications/IRPpamphlet1.pdf
- First in JCWI’s new "Immigration Rights Project Discussion Series."
Updated Profiles on Internal Displacement (Dec. 2003) -
http://www.idpproject.org/
- Available for Bangladesh and Uganda.
**Journals/Newsletters**
Asian Disaster Management News, vol. 9, no. 2 (April-June 2003) -
http://www.adpc.ait.ac.th/Infores/Newsletter/2003/04-06/default.html (full-
text)
Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 18, no. 4 (Nov. 2003) -
http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emaInternet.nsf/AllDocs/RWP3129C56F51F6881FCA256C7600
3614AE?OpenDocument (full-text)
Conflict Trends, no. 3/2003 -
http://www.accord.org.za/web.nsf/Pub\ConflictTrends2003-3!OpenPage (full-text)
- Special edition on "Women, Peace & Security."
CrisisWatch, no. 4 (Dec. 2003) - http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?
l=1&id=2392
Development in Practice, vol. 13, no. 5 (2003) -
http://www.developmentinpractice.org/abstracts/vol13/v13n05.html (abstracts)
- Note: This site now provides abstracts in French, Spanish and Portuguese in
addition to English.
Disasters, vol. 27, no. 4 (Dec. 2003) -
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/issue.asp?ref=0361-
3666&vid=27&iid=4&oc=&s=&site=1 (abstracts)
Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 27, no. 1 (Jan. 2004) -
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=nx256hkf1uqr (abstracts)
International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, vol. 21, no. 2. (Aug.
2003) - http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/ijmed/v21n2.html (abstracts)
International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 15, no. 2 (April 2003) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/reflaw/current/ (abstracts)
International Migration Review, vol. 37, no. 3 (Fall 2003) –
http://cmsny.org/cmspage3.htm#Fall (abstracts)
- Special edition on "Transnational Migration: International Perspectives."
International Review of the Red Cross, no. 851 (2003) -
http://www.icrc.org/eng/review (full-text)
- Special edition on "Victims after the war - humanitarian action, reparation
and justice:; in English, French and Spanish.
Journal de Forum refugies, no. 24 (Oct. 2003) -
http://www.forumrefugies.org/pages/journal.htm (selected full-text)
Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 16, no. 3 (Sept. 2003) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/refuge/current/ (abstracts)
- Focus is on burden-sharing in the European Union.
Refugee Nutrition Information System, no. 43 (Nov. 2003) -
http://www.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/html/rnis.html (full-text)
Refugee Watch, no. 19 (Aug. 2003) - http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch19.htm
- Focus is on IDPs in South Asia.
**Events & Opportunities**
Call for Papers: 6th Colloquium for Students and Young Graduates, Centre
d'études ethniques des universités montréalaises, 26 Feb. 2004 -
http://www.ceetum.umontreal.ca
- Submit proposals by 9 Jan. 2004 for consideration.
"Working with Refugees," FACE Seminar, London, 4 Feb. 2004- http://www.f-a-c-
e.org.uk/
- Select “Seminars 2003-2004” for more information.
**Web Sites**
Refugees Have Rights - http://web.amnesty.org/pages/refugees-181203-index-eng
- Amnesty International’s refugee campaign web page.
Training for Peace – http://www.trainingforpeace.org
- New programme with the aim of "contributing towards capacity building within
the broader ambit of peace operations at the practical and conceptual level in
the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region."
**Other Information/Resources**
Global Commission on International Migration -
http://www.southafrica.info/women/migration-ramphele.htm
- Independent commission launched 9 Dec. 2003
Refugee Women, 2nd edition, by Susan Forbes Martin (Dec. 2003)
- Original edition first published in 1992; available from Lexington Books -
http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?
command=Search&db=^db/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739105892.
Elisa Mason
Forced Migration Online
http://www.forcedmigration.org
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