Dear List Members,
Below please find references to new online publications, journal/newsletter
issues, events and opportunities, and web sites.
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**Online Publications**
"Internal displacement in Europe," Recommendation 1631 (2003) -
http://assembly.coe.int/Mainf.asp?link=http://assembly.coe.int/documents/adoptedtext/ta03/erec1631.htm
- French: http://assembly.coe.int/Mainf.asp?link=http%3A%2F%2Fassembly.coe.int%
2FDocuments%2FAdoptedText%2Fta03%2FFREC1631.htm
Minimizing Development-Induced Displacement (Jan. 2004) -
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=194
The Security Demographic: Population and Civil Conflict after the Cold War
(2003) -
http://www.populationaction.org/resources/publications/securitydemographic/inde
x.html
The Top Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2003 (Jan. 2004) -
http://www.msf.org/content/page.cfm?articleid=AA4451CE-6C9E-4516-
A063A1D44C3205CA
UNHCR and NGOs: Competitors or Companions in Refugee Protection? (Feb. 2004) -
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=200
Updated Profiles on Internal Displacement (Jan. & Feb. 2004) –
http://www.idpproject.org
- Available for Pakistan, Russian Fed., Bosnia & Herzegovina, Afghanistan,
Colombia, DR Congo
**Journals/Newsletters**
Refugees, no. 133 (Jan. 2004) - http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/publ
- Focus is on Afghanistan; click on link top right column.
Return Review - http://www.prc.org.uk/english/default.asp?
f=../../Database/data/english/Awda/2004/12004.htm
**Events & Opportunities**
"Fragments from another Life," Photographic Exhibit, Diorama Gallery, London,
Jan. 19-Feb. 21, 2004 - http://www.torturecare.org.uk/news/newsRelease01-19-
04.htm
Summer Course on Refugee Issues, Centre for Refugee Studies, Toronto, June 5 –
13, 2004 - http://www.yorku.ca/crs/summer.htm
- Sessions include: Root Causes and Consequences of Forced Displacement;
Ethics of Forced Migration; The UNHCR; Interdiction of Illegal Migrations:
Strengthening the Western Fortress after 9/11; Cultural Psychology of
Refugees; An Overview of the Convention Refugee Definition; Statelessness;
Protection for Internally Displaced Persons; Globalization and Refugees; The
Evolution of Public Health Response in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies;
International Trafficking of Migrants; Palestinian Refugees: Social, Legal,
and Political Dimensions of the Refugee Crisis; International and Regional
Human Rights Remedies.
Summer Institute on International Migration, Ethnic Diversity and Cities,
International School for Humanities and Social Science, Amsterdam, June 13-
July 2, 2004 - http://www.ishss.uva.nl/SIM/
- Programme made up of six blocks: Theories and Concepts of International
Migration, Ethnic diversity and Cities; International Migration: Causes and
Consequences; Immigrant Integration in Cosmopolitan Cities; Regulation of
International Migration; Immigrant Integration Policies; and Research Seminar.
**Web Sites**
UNHCR in French – http://www.action-refugies.org/
- New look for the French-language UNHCR site.
Noche y Niebla: Banco de Datos de Derechos Humanos y Violencia Politica en
Colombia - http://www.nocheyniebla.org
WSP International - http://www.wsp-international.org/
- First started in 1994 as a pilot project under UNRISD; re-organized in 2000
as a Swiss NGO.
Elisa Mason
Forced Migration Online
http://www.forcedmigration.org
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