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journal/newsletter issues, events and opportunities, and web sites.
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**Online Publications/Tools**
60th Session of the Commission on Human Rights, 15 March-23 April 2004 -
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/60chr/index.html
- Includes agenda, documents, votes, and other information, in English, French
and Spanish.
Analyzing Asylum Applications -
http://www.migrationinformation.org/DataTools/asylum.cfm
- New data tool from the Migration Information Source; allows users to
retrieve data between 1980 and 2002 on asylum seeker numbers, their countries
of origin and their destinations.
Darfur Rising: Sudan's New Crisis (25 March 2004) -
http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?id=2550&l=1
Humanitarian Action Report 2004 - http://www.unicef.org/emerg/index_HAR.html
Humanitarian Protection: A Guidance Booklet (Feb. 2004) -
http://www.alnap.org/pubs/pdfs/protectionbooklet3.pdf
Listen to the Refugee’s Story: How UK Foreign Investment Creates Refugees and
Asylum Seekers (Nov. 2003) -
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/refinves.pdf
- Two of the refugee authors in this book recently spoke at a Royal
Commonwealth Society talk entitled, “Does UK Foreign Investment Create
Refugees and Asylum Seekers?”
The Plight of the Internally Displaced: A Challenge to the International
Community (8 April 2004) -
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/20040408plight.htm
- Statement by Francis Deng to the UN High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges
and Change.
Rosemarie Rogers Working Paper Series -
http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/migration/publications.html#rrwps
- See new papers by Theresa Stichick Betancourt and Stacy Heen.
Rwanda: Lessons Learned. 10 Years after the Genocide (29 March 2004) -
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/03/29/rwanda8308.htm
Toward New Understandings: Journalists & Humanitarian Relief Coverage (2004) -
http://www.interaction.org/files.cgi/2707_Journalists_humanitarian_relief_cover
age.pdf
Updated Profiles on Internal Displacement (March and April 2004) –
http://www.idpproject.org
- Available for Sri Lanka, Turkey, Angola, Burundi, Georgia, Solomon Isl.,
Sudan, Moldova, and Serbia & Montenegro.
**Journals/Newsletters**
CrisisWatch, no. 8 (1 April 2004) - http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?
id=2558&l=1
- Notes deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, DR
Congo, Indonesia, Israel/Occupied Territories, Kosovo, Nepal, Pakistan,
Serbia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela.
IASFM News, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2004) -
http://www.iasfm.org/images/newsletter_in_word.pdf
Migration Information Source (April 2004) -
http://www.migrationinformation.org/index.cfm
- Includes articles on gender-related persecution, sustainable development in
Azerbaijan, and asylum applications in the EU.
Refugees Magazine, no. 134 (March 2004) - http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-
bin/texis/vtx/doclist/+gwwBmep_c1KwwwwnwwwwwwwxFqzvqXs_+nw6hFqhT0NuItFqnp1xcAFq
hT0yfEDzmwwwwwwww5FqOIZu2g0acoAnaeTRfr-uH00TEHeTGktqtIRfgQj
- Theme is "Dreams, Fears and Euphoria: The Long Road Home."
Respect E-Zine, no. 18 (2 April 2004) -
http://www.respectrefugees.org/ezine/ezine20040402.shtml
- Focuses on refugee education.
**Events & Opportunities**
2nd International Rieti Meeting on the issue of Refugees and Asylum Seekers,
16-19 June 2004 / 2o Meeting Internazionale sul tema dei rifugiati e dei
richiedenti asilo, Rieti, 16/19 Giugno 2004 -
http://www.ariweb.it/Conference/ing/meeting2004.htm and
http://www.ariweb.it/Conference/ita/conferenza2004.htm
9th International Metropolis Conference, Geneva, 27 September - 1 October
2004 - http://www.metropolis2004.ch/en/index.shtml
- Theme is "Co-operative Migration Management: International, National, and
Local Answers."
European Summer School, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1 - 14 July 2004
- Programme focuses on "European Union Law and Policy on Immigration and
Asylum"; organized by the Odysseus Programme of the European Commission.
Summer Course on Refugee Issues, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University,
5-13 June 2004 - http://www.yorku.ca/crs/summer.htm
What is humanitarianism anyway? -
http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/WIHA_Discussion_intro.html
- Site provides opportunity to present your views and participate in the
debate.
World Refugee Day, 20 June 2004 - http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-
bin/texis/vtx/events/+5wwFqzvnsh6_nX6xFqzvnsh6_nX6hFqhT0NuItFqtnVnDB5zFqt0U0NRI
AFqwDzmwwwwwwww1Fqt0U0NRI
- Theme is "A place to call home: Rebuilding lives in safety and dignity."
**Web Sites**
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) - http://www.ajol.info/
- Browse, search and read full-text journals published in Africa.
Global Humanitarian Assistance -
http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.org/ghafr1.htm
- Provides access to reports documenting trends in global humanitarian
assistance published in 2000 and 2003.
Humanitarian Accountability Partnership - http://www.hapinternational.org/en/
ISFEREA: information support for effective and rapid external aid -
http://dma.jrc.it/isferea/
- "…aim of ISFEREA is to improve the visibility, transparency, effectiveness
and efficiency of EU efforts in humanitarian aid by developing technologies
and systems to supply timely and reliable information to the European
Commission and to humanitarian organizations on the ground"; includes a
digital map archive.
Regard - http://www.regard.ac.uk/regard/home/index_html
- "An ESRC research service"; database for locating information on research
projects funded by the ESRC in the UK.
Southern Africa Humanitarian Information Network (SAHIMS) -
http://www.sahims.net/
Elisa Mason
Forced Migration Online
http://www.forcedmigration.org
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