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journal/newsletter issues, events and opportunities, and web sites.
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**What’s New on FMO**
- New resources relating to refugees from Western Sahara include a research
guide, a resource page, and a photo gallery.
- Also available is a research guide on Ethiopia.
Visit FMO at http://www.forcedmigration.org.
**Online Publications/Resources**
Ambiguity and Change: Humanitarian NGOs Prepare for the Future (Aug. 2004) -
http://famine.tufts.edu/pdf/ambiguity_and_change.pdf
Assessment of the Human Rights Situation in Iran (July 2004) -
http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/ir_ue072004a.pdf
Camp Management Toolkit - http://www.nrc.no/camp/
- The "aim has been to develop a comprehensive overview of the camp management
role and responsibilities, but also to provide practical and reference tools
to support camp managers in their daily work"; registration required.
Government/UNHCR continue fourth year of cruel limbo for Iranian Kurds in
Turkey (Aug. 2004) - http://www.irainc.org/text/pub/NIpaper.pdf
Information for Asylum-Seekers - http://www.asylumlaw.org/asylumseeker/
- New section on the Asylum.org site that provides guidance to people seeking
asylum. Includes an asylum-seeker discussion board and a helpful chart with
links to government and NGO web sites based in receiving countries in Europe.
Oral Testimony: Resettlement - http://panos.org.uk/global/projectdetails.asp?
ProjectID=1010&ID=1004
- Panos project to capture experiences of people resettled as a result of
development projects.
Practical Guide to Multilateral Needs Assessments in Post-Conflict Situations
(Aug. 2004) -
http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/sdvext.nsf/67ByDocName/PracticalGuidetoMultil
ateralNeedsAssessmentsinPost-ConflictSituations/$FILE/WP15.2.UN_Web.pdf
Sierra Leone Encyclopedia 2004 - http://www.daco-sl.org/encyclopedia2004/
- Designed to promote information-sharing and coordination in relief and
development activities.
Updated Profiles on Internal Displacement (Aug. 2004) –
http://www.idpproject.org
- Available for Central African Republic and Eritrea.
**Journals/Newsletters**
Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 19, no. 2 (May 2004) -
http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emaInternet.nsf/AllDocs/RWP3129C56F51F6881FCA256C7600
3614AE?OpenDocument (full-text)
Development in Practice, vol. 14, no. 4 (2004) -
http://www.developmentinpractice.org/abstracts/vol14/v14n04.html (abstracts)
- Focus is on women.
Disasters, vol. 28, no. 2 (June 2004) -
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/toc.asp?ref=0361-3666 (contents)
- Focus is on Sphere.
Humanitarian Affairs Review (Summer 2004) - http://www.humanitarian-review.org
(full-text)
- Includes articles on Darfur, Myanmar, humanitarian aid, the GM debate, Iraq,
private military service, among others.
Humanitarian Exchange, no. 27 (July 2004) -
http://www.odihpn.org/documents/humanitarianexchange027.pdf (full-text)
- Focus is on famine response.
International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 16, no. 1 (2004) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/reflaw/hdb/Volume_16/Issue_01/ (abstracts)
- Articles on "non-refoulement," Greece, Australia, and the cessation clause.
International Migration, vol. 42, no. 3 (August 2004) -
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/issue.asp?ref=0020-
7985&vid=42&iid=3&oc=&s=&site=1 (abstracts)
International Migration Review, vol. 38, no. 1 (Spring 2004) -
http://cmsny.org/imr-publication.htm (contents)
International Review of the Red Cross, no. 854 (June 2004) -
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/section_review_2004_854?
OpenDocument (full-text)
- Special issue on protection of cultural property in armed conflict.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 30, no. 5 (2004) -
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=1369-
183X&volume=30&issue=5 (abstracts)
Journal de Forum réfugiés, no. 27 (juillet 2004) -
http://www.forumrefugies.org/pages/journal.htm (selected full-text)
- Focus on Europe.
Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 17, no. 3 (September 2004) –
http://www3.oup.co.uk/refuge/current/ (abstracts)
- Includes tributes to Arthur Helton and Sergio Vieira de Mello.
Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations, vol. 2 (May 2004) -
http://www.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/html/rnis.html (full-text)
**Events & Opportunities**
Call for Papers: "Elections and Ethnopolitics," The Global Review of
Ethnopolitics - http://www.ethnopolitics.org/
- Submissions due 31 December 2004.
Call for Papers: "Special Issue on International Humanitarianism," Development
in Practice - http://www.developmentinpractice.org/call_for_papers.htm
- Abstracts due 22 October 2004.
Development Studies Association, "Bridging Research and Policy," 6 November -
http://www.devstud.org.uk/conference.htm
Global Stakeholder Panel (GSP) Survey - http://www.2020fund.org/gsp3/
- Aim is to "identify priorities, explore possible solutions and develop
broadly supported action plans"; in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and
Portuguese.
Illegal Migration and Non-Traditional Security: Processes of Securitisation
and Desecuritisation in Asia, Research Workshop held in conjunction with the
Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, CASS, Beijing, 10-11 October 2004 -
http://www.hku.hk/cas
- Contact [log in to unmask] for more information.
Preparation for Work Course for Refugee Women Nurses and Midwives, Refugee
Women's Association, London, 6-16 September 2004 -
http://www.refugeewomen.org/edu/1training.htm
**Web Sites**
Center for Migration Studies - http://cmsny.org
- Re-organized and updated site.
FilmAid International - http://www.filmaidinternational.org
- Uses film to highlight refugee issues.
Elisa Mason
Forced Migration Online
http://www.forcedmigration.org
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