Dear List Members,
Below please find references to new resources on FMO, online publications,
journal/newsletter issues, events and opportunities, and web sites.
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**What’s New on FMO**
The Forced Migration Digital Library has been updated again. Over 750
documents have been added to the collection. A number of contributors
generously gave their permission to include a wide range of their
publications, including (but not limited to) the British Refugee Council,
Brookings Institution-SAIS Project on Internal Displacement, Humanitarianism &
War Project (Tufts Univ.), Inter-University Committee on International
Migration, International Alert, Michael Cernea, Palestinian Return Centre
(PRC), Refugee Action, Stanley Foundation, UNHCR, UNRISD, USAID, the U.S.
Institute of Peace, and the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children,
among others. A special thanks to these and the many other individuals and
organizations who gave FMO permission to include their documents.
Another content update is scheduled before the end of the year.
Please visit Forced Migration Online at http://www.forcedmigration.org/.
**Online Publications/Resources**
55th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme,
4-8 October 2004 - http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-
bin/texis/vtx/excom/+GwwFqz6Xhn+wmv6xFqz6Xhn+wmv6mFqh0kgZThFqhT0NuItFqnnLnqzFqn
0k0gAFqwDzmwwwwwwww1Fqn0k0g
- Documents available in English and French.
Afghan Refugees in India (Oct. 2004) - http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?
root=2004&leaf=10&filename=7829&filetype=html
- Note: This article will eventually be archived. However, it will continue
to be accessible by registered users; registration is free. (Thanks to Beryl
Nicholson for this reference.)
Implementing the Collaborative Response to Situations of Internal
Displacement: Guidance for UN Humanitarian and/or Resident Coordinators and
Country Teams (Sept. 2004) -
http://www.idpproject.org/IDP_documents/IDPPolicyPackage.pdf
Position Report: 59th session of the United Nations’ General Assembly (Sept.
2004) - http://www.fidh.org/article.php3?id_article=1995
"Psychological trauma and evidence for enhanced vulnerability for
posttraumatic stress disorder through previous trauma among West Nile
refugees," BMC Psychiatry 2004, 4:34 – http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-
244X/4/34/abstract
- For complete text of article, select “PDF” link on the left. (Thanks to
Ailsa Rayner for this reference.)
Refugee Law Reader – http://www.refugeelawreader.org/index.d2
- Second edition now available.
Special Issue on Africa: Migration Information Source (Sept. 2004) -
http://www.migrationinformation.org/issue_sep04.cfm
Update on the Education of Refugee Children in Uganda -
http://www.refugeelawproject.org/working%20papers/RefugeeEducationUpdate.pdf
Updated Profiles on Internal Displacement (Sept. & Oct. 2004) –
http://www.idpproject.org
- Available for Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Nepal, Liberia, Angola, Sri Lanka, Cote
d’Ivoire, Afghanistan, DRC, and Rwanda.
**Journals/Newsletters**
Accord Series: From military peace to social justice? The Angolan peace
process (2004) - http://www.c-r.org/accord/ang/accord15/index.shtml (full-text)
Development in Practice, vol. 14, no. 5 (2004) -
http://www.developmentinpractice.org/abstracts/vol14/v14n05.html (abstracts)
Disasters, vol. 28, no. 3 (Sept. 2004) -
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/issue.asp?ref=0361-
3666&vid=28&iid=3&oc=&s=&site=1 (abstracts)
- Focus is on reproductive health.
International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 16, no. 3 (2004) -
http://ijrl.oupjournals.org/current.dtl (contents, abstracts)
International Review of the Red Cross, no. 855 (2004) -
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/section_review_2004_855?
OpenDocument
- Focus is on "Contemporary challenges to humanitarian action"; full-text will
be available online shortly.
Journal de Forum réfugiés, no. 28 (oct. 2004) -
http://www.forumrefugies.org/pages/journal.htm (selected full-text)
Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations, vol. 3 (Aug. 2004) -
http://www.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/RNIS/NICSv3.pdf (full-text_
Refuge - http://www.yorku.ca/crs/Refuge/back%20issues%20online.htm
- Back issues now available online in full-text.
Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3 (2004) –
http://www3.oup.co.uk/refqtl/current/
- Focus is on voluntary repatriation.
Refugees Magazine, no. 136 (Sept. 2004) - http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-
bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=MEDIA&id=414ee49c4&page=publ
(full-text)
- Focus is on Darfur.
Talk Back, vol. 6, no. 1 (Oct. 2004) - http://www.icva.ch/cgi-bin/browse.pl?
doc=doc00001253 (full-text)
- Focus is on Red Cross/NGO Code of Conduct.
The Violence against Women Monitor (Oct. 2004) -
http://www.stopvaw.org/sites/3f6d15f4-c12d-4515-8544-
26b7a3a5a41e/uploads/StopVaw_Oct_04_FINAL.pdf (full-text)
- New newsletter from the Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.
**Events & Opportunities**
Call for Nominations: Oak Fellowship on Health & Human Rights 2005 -
http://www.colby.edu/oak/
Call for Papers: European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), 22-25
March 2006, Amsterdam - http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/2006.html
- Includes a network that covers "ethnicity and migration"; "information on
how to propose a paper, a session or how to register as chair, discussant or
spectator and how to fill in the electronic form can be found on the
registration page." (Thanks to Beryl Nicholson for this reference.)
ELENA International Course on EU Asylum Law and the Human Rights Obligations
of the Member States, 21 - 23 January 2005, Brussels - http://www.ecre.org/
Ethnopolitical Conflict: The Asch Center 2005 Summer Institute, 6 June – 29
July 2005, University of Pennsylvania - http://www.psych.upenn.edu/sacsec/
Expert Group Meeting on Protecting Victims of International Trafficking, 11-12
November 2004, Seoul -
http://www.iom.int/en/PDF_Files/Other/Seoul_provisional_agenda.pdf
Reaching for sanctuary: Providing good mental health services for refugees, 3
December 2004, London - http://www.mind.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/6F5071FC-BD3C-4AFC-
BC3C-B84E26F4B2E6/2287/refugee.pdf
**Web Sites**
Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) - http://www.ciir.org
Childtrafficking.com - http://www.childtrafficking.com/
- Digital library on child trafficking produced by Terres des Hommes.
Coalition for Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations/ La Coalition pour
les droits des femmes en situation de conflits –
http://www.womensrightscoalition.org
- New web site; aim is to "promote the adequate prosecution of perpetrators of
crimes of gender violence in transitional justice systems based in Africa."
Geneva Call - http://www.genevacall.org/home.htm
- An organization that seeks to promote respect for humanitarian norms by
armed non-state actors (NSAs).
Human Rights and Development -
http://www.hri.ca/hrdevelopment/prologue/index.html
- Includes sections on humanitarian intervention and development; see
also "primer" section.
Legislation Online - http://www.legislationline.org
- Provides legislation and analysis of legal matters in OSCE countries.
The United Nations Human Rights Treaties - http://www.bayefsky.com/
- "[D]esigned for the purpose of enhancing the implementation of the human rights legal standards of the United Nations."
Elisa Mason
Forced Migration Online
http://www.forcedmigration.org
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