Dear List Members,
Below please find references to new online publications, journal/newsletter
issues, events and opportunities, and web sites.
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**Haiti**
For up-to-date information on the unfolding situation, see:
- AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/emergency/HA_UNR.htm
- OneWorld.net - http://www.oneworld.net/article/country/332/
- Organization of American States (OAS) - http://www.oas.org/main/main.asp?
sLang=E&sLink=http://www.oas.org/OASpage/Haiti_situation
- ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLCE/Haiti%20?
OpenDocument&StartKey=Haiti%20&Expandview
- UN News Centre - http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?
infocusID=91&Body=Haiti&Body1=
- World-Newspapers.com - http://www.world-newspapers.com/haiti.html
- See also FMO’s Country Information Resource Page for country of origin
information sources online:
http://www.forcedmigration.org/browse/thematic/countryinfo.htm
**Online Publications**
2003 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (25 Feb. 2004) -
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/index.htm
- Covers events of 2003.
Behind the Violence: Causes, Consequences and the Search for Solutions to the
War in Northern Uganda, Refugee Law Project Working Paper, no. 11 (Feb. 2004) -
http://www.refugeelawproject.org/working%20papers/RLP%20WP11%20Northern%
20Uganda.pdf
Enhancing Women’s Participation in Electoral Processes in Post-Conflict
Countries: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Resource Materials (Jan.
2004) -
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/meetings/2004/EGMelectoral/ResourceGuide.PDF
In Liberty's Shadow: U.S. Detention of Asylum Seekers in the Era of Homeland
Security (2004) -
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/asylum/libertys_shadow/Libertys_Shadow.pdf
- Dedicated to Arthur Helton.
Internal Displacement: A Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2003
(Feb. 2004) - http://www.idpproject.org/global_overview.htm
It's in Our Hands: Stop Violence against Women (5 March 2004) -
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engact770012004
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Thai Policy toward Burmese Refugees and Migrants
(Feb. 2004) - http://hrw.org/reports/2004/thailand0204/
Updated Profiles on Internal Displacement (Feb. & March 2004) –
http://www.idpproject.org
- Available for Iraq, Macedonia and Algeria.
World Report 2004: Human Rights and Armed Conflict (Jan. 2004) -
http://hrw.org/wr2k4/
- Note format change: this volume provides in-depth essays that focus on one
particular theme, and does not provide summaries of human rights developments
in countries around the world that readers may be expecting.
**Journals/Newsletters**
Accord: An International Review of Peace Initiatives, no. 14 (2004) -
http://www.c-r.org/accord/col/accord14/index.shtml (full-text)
- Focus is “Alternatives to War: Colombia’s Peace Processes.”
CrisisWatch, no. 7 (1 March 2004 ) - http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?
id=2527&l=1 (full-text, PDF or DOC)
Disasters, vol. 28, no. 1 (March 2004) -
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/issue.asp?ref=0361-
3666&vid=28&iid=1&oc=&s=&site=1 (abstracts, table of contents)
- Note: Back issues of Disasters are archived in FMO; see Journals section at
http://fmo.qeh.ox.ac.uk/Default/Client.asp?skin=Fmo&enter=true
Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 27, no. 2 (March 2004) -
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0141-
9870&volume=27&issue=2 (abstracts, table of contents)
- Includes article by Stephen Castles entitled “Why migration policies fail.”
Global Review of Ethnopolitics, vol. 3, no. 2 (Jan. 2004) -
http://www.ethnopolitics.org (full-text, PDF)
Human Rights Brief, vol. 11, no. 1 (Fall 2003) -
http://www.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief/hrbrief111.pdf (full-text, PDF)
International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 15, no. 3 (July 2003) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/reflaw/current/ (abstracts, table of contents)
International Migration, vol. 42, no. 1 (March 2004) -
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/issue.asp?ref=0020-
7985&vid=42&iid=1&oc=&s=&site=1 (abstracts, table of contents)
International Review of the Red Cross, no. 852 (2003) -
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/section_review_2003_852?
OpenDocument
- Focus is on Africa and humanitarian action; currently table of contents
only, but full-text articles due to be online soon.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 29, no. 6 (Nov. 2003) –
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=1369-
183X&volume=29&issue=6 (abstracts, table of contents)
- Focus is on Albanian migration.
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance - http://www.jha.ac (full-text)
- Select Academic—Articles for various titles produced in 2004.
Journal de forum réfugiés, no. 25 (Jan. 2004) -
http://www.forumrefugies.org/pages/journal.htm (selected full-text)
Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 16, no. 4 (Dec. 2003) -
http://www3.oup.co.uk/refuge/current/ (abstracts, table of contents)
Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations (formerly RNIS), vol. 1 (Feb.
2004) - http://www.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/html/rnis.html (full-text,
PDF or HTML)
Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4 (Dec. 2003) –
http://www3.oup.co.uk/refqtl/current/
- Focus is on “The Economic and Social Consequences of Humanitarian Crises.”
**Events & Opportunities**
International Women’s Day, March 8 -
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/iwd/2004/
- Lists UN activities commemorating IWD.
Master's Degree in Gender and Peace Building, University of Peace, Costa Rica -
http://www.upeace.org/academic/masters/gender.htm
- 10-month programme; apply online at a/m URL.
“The Refugee Problem and the Problems of Refugees,” The British Academy,
London, 22-24 March 2004 -
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/events2004/refugees.html
- Speakers will include B.S. Chimni, Aristide Zolberg, and Gil Loescher, among
others.
World Congress of the International Federation for Human Rights, Quito, 2-4
March 2004 - http://www.fidh.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=382
- Currently ongoing, but site includes a number of conference documents.
World Forum on Human Rights, Nantes, France, 16-19 May 2004 -
http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php@URL_ID=3981&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=
201.html
- Three main themes of the Forum are terrorism, discrimination and poverty.
**Web Sites**
CompStat: Comparing National Data Sources in the Field of Migration and
Integration - http://www.compstat.org
Global Study on Participation of Affected Populations in Humanitarian Action -
http://www.globalstudyparticipation.org/
- Includes a Handbook for Practitioners.
Human Rights First - http://www.humanrightsfirst.org
- Formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (LCHR).
Peace Direct - http://www.peacedirect.org
The Voice: Refugee Forum in Germany - http://www.thevoiceforum.org/
- Refugee political activists based in Germany; current campaign focuses on
stopping the deportation/expulsion of asylum seekers in Europe.
U.S. Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org/
Elisa Mason
Forced Migration Online
http://www.forcedmigration.org
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