Dear List Members,



Below please find references to new online and print publications, 

journal/newsletter issues, events and opportunities, and web sites. 



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**Online Publications**



A National Responsibility Framework for Situations of Internal Displacement 

(May 2005) - http://www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/20050401_nrframework.htm 

(PDF)



Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries, First Quarter, 2005: 

Comparative Overview of Asylum Applications Lodged in 31 European and 5 Non-

European Countries (May 2005) - 

http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/statistics/opendoc.pdf?tbl=STATISTICS&id=428da0db2 (PDF)



Property Restitution in Practice: The Norwegian Refugee Council’s Experience 

(April 2005) - http://www.nrc.no/NRC_Property_restituition_in_practice.pdf 

(PDF)

- Prepared for Expert Consultation on Housing and Property Restitution for 

Refugees and Displaced Persons, 21-22 April 2005



The provision of protection to asylum-seekers in destination countries, New 

Issues in Refugee Research, no. 114 (May 2005) - 

http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=RESEARCH&id=42846e7f2&page=research (PDF)



Report on integrated missions: Practical perspectives and recommendations (May 

2005) - http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/SODA-6CK7SK?OpenDocument 

(PDF)



**Print Publications**



Amnesty International Report 2005 (May 2005) - 

http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/index-eng

- Normally, this is made available in full-text online, but currently, only an 

order form for the print version is provided.



Itaru Ohta and Yntiso D. Gebre (eds), Displacement Risks in Africa: Refugees, 

Resettlers and Their Host Population (TransPacific Press, Paperback) - 

http://www.transpacificpress.com/cache/item-79public.html?cache=no 



**Journals/Newsletters**



Ethnopolitics, vol. 4, no. 1 (March 2005) - 

http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&eissn=1744-9065&volume=4&issue=1 

(abstracts, selected full-text)



International Review of the Red Cross, no. 857 (March 2005) - 

http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/section_review_2005_857 (full-text)

- Focus is on detention.



Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 1 (2005) - 

http://rsq.oupjournals.org/current.dtl (abstracts)

- Focus is on EXCOM 2004.



**Events & Opportunities**



International Humanitarian Law and Current Conflicts: New Challenges and 

Dilemmas, Cambridge, MA, 18-22 July 2005 - 

http://www.ihlresearch.org/ihl/seminar/ 

- Advanced training on international humanitarian law.



International Security Risks Online Course - http://www.isr-course.ethz.ch/

- The course “features e-learning modules on Climate Change, Drug Problems,

Financial Crises, Migration and Terrorism. The modules discuss links between 

security, risk, and the phenomena in question, and present overviews of the 

main problems and counterstrategies developed and implemented by states and 

international organizations.”



KOFF Training: How to Deal with Gender-Based Violence and Trauma in 

Humanitarian Aid, Bern, Switzerland, 21 September 2005 - 

http://www.swisspeace.org/koff/uploads/website/koffevents/trainings.pdf 



New Journal: International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care

- The editor is “interested in the following types of articles: (i) scholarly 

articles and evaluations on the provision of services to migrants and refugees 

(these will be submitted for peer-review); (ii) reports on services 

developments and ongoing research in the field; (iii) conference reports; (iv) 

book reviews.  Also interested in 'recruiting' for papers, in particular 

papers from practitioners for the section entitled "Practice Reports". These 

are papers focusing on what people are doing in the field, and how that 

practice relates to theory, community development, professional development, 

and importantly, the improvements for their service users/clients.” To 

contribute articles/abstracts, contact Ms Kim Robinson, Lecturer, The European 

Centre for the Study of Migration and Social Care, Tizard Centre, Beverley 

Farm, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7LZ, UK - 

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RSDWatch.org, Discussion Forum - 

http://www.rsdwatch.org/index_files/Page327.htm

- Visitors can participate in an online forum discussing UNHCR’s refugee 

status determination (RSD) procedures.



**Web Sites/Online Resources**



INA Daily - https://www.inadaily.com

- International news service; offers free headlines but must subscribe to read 

complete articles.  Thirty-day free trial available.



News Feeds - http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/NewsFeeds?v=cso

- BBC is offering free news feeds through its developer network, including a 

world edition and feeds in 41 languages.



Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org

- This is a “free content” encyclopedia that anyone is allowed to edit – in 

other words, a collective endeavor.  See the “forced migration” entry at 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_migration; there are also cross-references 

to “refugee” and “internally displaced person.”  If you wish to expand on any 

of these entries, create an account and begin adding content.  There is an 

editing FAQ available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_FAQ.  





Elisa Mason

Information Specialist



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