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issues, events and opportunities, and web sites.
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**What’s New on FMO**
- FMO has prepared a new resource page to mark Africa Day, May 25. This day
recognizes the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), now the
African Union. Please visit
http://www.forcedmigration.org/browse/regional/africa.htm for relevant
background documents, web resources and catalogued organizations selected from
FMO’s information repository.
**Online Publications**
2003 Country reports on human rights practices (Feb. 2004) -
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/index.htm
- Annual U.S. State Dept. survey.
Ager, Alastair and Maryanne Loughry, “Psychology & Humanitarian Assistance,”
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (6 April 2004) -
http://www.jha.ac/articles/a131.htm
Confronting the Realities of Forced Migration (1 May 2004) -
http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?id=222
- Article by Stephen Castles in the Migration Information Source.
Introductory Guide to Resettlement (May 2004) - http://www.more.fi/morecd/
- Available in English and Finnish; also available in CD-ROM format.
Operating in an Age of Uncertainty: New Challenges in
Humanitarian and Development Work, InterAction Forum 2004 -
http://www.interaction.org/forum2004/index.html
- Includes speeches by Ruud Lubbers and Colin Powell.
Updated Profiles on Internal Displacement (May 2004) –
http://www.idpproject.org
- Available for Israel, the Philippines, and Somalia.
What NGO Leaders Want for the Year 2020: Report of the Second Survey of the
2020 Global Stakeholder Panel (March 2004) -
http://www.2020fund.org/gsp_results.htm
- Visitors can also participate in the 3rd GSP survey.
When Women are Trafficked: Quantifying the Gendered Experience of Trafficking
in the UK (April 2004) -
http://www.communitykit.ik.com/pub/customersites/communitykit/ppy-
030704145426.nsf/0/B62272422BA658CD80256E7E004E0391?open&add=yes
World Refugee Survey 2004 (24 May 2004) -
http://www.refugees.org/wrs04/main.html
- Annual survey produced by the U.S. Committee for Refugees; dedicated to
Arthur Helton.
**Journals/Newsletters**
Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, vol. 2004-1 -
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma/issues/current.shtml (full-text)
Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 19, no. 1 (March 2004) -
http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emaInternet.nsf/AllDocs/RWP3129C56F51F6881FCA256C7600
3614AE?OpenDocument (full-text)
Development in Practice, vol. 14, no. 3 (April 2004) -
http://www.developmentinpractice.org/abstracts/vol14/v14n03.html (abstracts)
Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 27, no. 3 (May 2004) -
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0141-
9870&issue=current (abstracts)
Human Rights Brief, vol. 11, no. 3 (Spring 2004) -
http://www.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief/hrbrief113.pdf (full-text, PDF)
- 10th anniversary issue, with focus on “A Decade in Human Rights Law”;
includes article on internal displacement by Francis Deng.
International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, vol. 22, no. 1 (March
2004) - http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/ijmed/v22n1.html (abstracts)
International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 15, no. 4 (Oct. 2003) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/reflaw/current/ (abstracts)
International Review of the Red Cross, no. 853 (2004) -
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/section_review_2004_853?
OpenDocument (full-text will be online soon)
- Focus is on the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 30, no. 2 (March 2004) -
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=1369-
183X&volume=30&issue=2 (abstracts)
Journal de Forum réfugiés, no. 26 (avril 2004) -
http://www.forumrefugies.org/pages/journal.htm (selected full-text)
Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 17, no. 1 (March 2004) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/refuge/current/ (abstracts)
Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 1 (April 2004) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/refqtl/current/ (abstracts)
- Reproduces documents from UNHCR’s Executive Committee meeting, October 2003.
Refugee Women’s News, no. 28 (May/June 2004) -
http://www.refugeewomen.org/news/issue28.htm (full-text)
**Events & Opportunities**
Conflicts: Prevention, Resolution, Reconciliation, Forum Barcelona 2004, 16-20
June 2004 - http://www.globalitaria.net/FrontOfficeEn/03_actividades_ficha.cfm?
id=42
European Immigration and Asylum Policy: Evaluation 1999 – 2004, 3rd European
Congress for Jurists Specialised in European Asylum and Immigration Policy,
Paris, 10-11 June 2004 - http://www.ulb.ac.be/assoc/odysseus/ParisE.html
- Visit site for programme details and registration information.
Islington Enterprise Agency - http://www.islingtonenterprise.co.uk/
- Currently offering business training scholarships to refugees in London; see
information about the FREE programme (Fostering Refugee Enterprise &
Employment) under the “Small Business” section of the a/m site. Contact John
McNamara ([log in to unmask]) for more info.
MA in Refugee Care -
http://www.essex.ac.uk/centres/psycho/programmes/ma/MARefugee.htm
- One year programme offered jointly by the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies,
University of Essex (which also validates the degree) and the Tavistock
Clinic; term begins Oct. 2004.
World Congress on Human Movements and Immigration, Barcelona, 2-5 September
2004 - http://www.mhicongress.org/aindex.php
- Includes a dialogue on refugees, asylum seekers and forced migrants that
will be coordinated by Stephen Castles.
**Web Sites**
Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) -
http://www.crise.ox.ac.uk/
- New web site now available for the centre.
OCHA - http://ochaonline.un.org/index.htm
- Newly updated and re-organized site.
Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) - http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/
- Newly re-organized site.
Elisa Mason
Forced Migration Online
http://www.forcedmigration.org
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