Dear List Members,
Below please find references to new online publications, journal/newsletter
issues, events and opportunities, web sites, and other online resources.
For regular updates on forced migration information resources on the web,
please visit the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog at
http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/.
**Online Publications**
Internal displacement in Côte d'Ivoire: a protection crisis (Nov. 2005) -
http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wCountries/Cote+d'Ivoire
Living on the Margins: Inadequate protection for refugees and asylum seekers
in Johannesburg (Nov. 2005) - http://hrw.org/reports/2005/southafrica1105/
Moore, Will H. and Stephen M. Shellman, “Refugee or Internally Displaced
Person? To Where Should One Flee?” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 39
(August 2006) (forthcoming) -
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~whmoore/research/REForIDP.CPS06.pdf
Protecting Two Million Internally Displaced: The Successes and Shortcomings of
the African Union in Darfur (Nov. 2005) -
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/200511_au_darfur.pdf
Regional Workshop on National Human Rights Institutions and Internally
Displaced Persons, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 26-28 October 2005: Concluding
Statement and Recommendations -
http://www.asiapacificforum.net/training/workshops/idp/concluding/index.htm
Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Sixty-
sixth session (21 February-11 March 2005), Sixty-seventh session (2-19 August
2005), Doc. symbol A/60/18, Suppl. 18 -
http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/LIB/DHLRefWeblog.nsf/dx/15112005113951AMSLKMJZ.htm
‘There are no Refugees in this Area’: Self-Settled Refugees in Koboko (Nov.
2005) -
http://www.refugeelawproject.org/papers/workingpapers/RLP.WP18.pdf
**Journals/Newsletters**
Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 29, no. 1 (Jan. 2006) -
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rers/2006/00000029/00000001
(contents, abstracts)
Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 4 (Nov. 2005) -
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/toc/hrq27.4.html
(contents, abstracts)
International Migration, vol. 43, no. 5 (Dec. 2005) -
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/imig/2005/00000043/00000005
(contents, abstracts)
Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 18, no. 4 (Dec. 2005) -
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol18/issue4/index.dtl (contents,
abstracts)
Refugee Livelihoods Network (Oct. 2005) -
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/research/opendoc.pdf?tbl=RESEARCH&id=437afdbb2
(full-text)
**Events & Opportunities**
29th Annual National Legal Conference on Immigration and Refugee Policy, New
York, NY, 13-14 March 2006 - http://www.cmsny.org/announcement.htm
33rd Regional Training Course on Disaster Management, 16th January –3rd
February 2006, Bangkok, Thailand -
http://www.adpc.net/training/brochure/DMC-33.pdf
- Organized by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center. Designed to “provide
comprehensive disaster management knowledge and skills to enhance the
capabilities of executive managers who have key disaster management
responsibilities.”
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, 25 November
2005 - http://www.unifem.org/campaigns/november25/index.php
- Also marks the beginning of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence
campaign (http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/home.html), which runs until 10
December or International Human Rights Day.
**Web Sites/Online Resources**
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies - http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/
- Revised, restructured web site; includes searchable database of gender
asylum decisions and country conditions research resources.
Reach Out Refugee Protection Training Kit – http://www.reachout.ch
- Project will be phased out at the end of the month; training materials will
be archived on various partner sites including Reliefweb
(http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwt.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-6HRN2P?OpenDocument) and
UNHCR (http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/partners/opendoc.htm?tbl=PARTNERS&id=437205fd2)
Travaux, Etudes, Recherches sur les Réfugiés et l’Asile -
http://terra.rezo.net/
- Provides access to wide variety of research resources (working papers,
publications, information centers, etc.).
UN Office of the Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery -
http://www.tsunamispecialenvoy.org/
- The “Focus on Recovery” section includes progress reports, thematic briefs,
country fact sheets, and progress indicators.
Wex - http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Main_Page
- A collaborative online legal dictionary/encyclopedia.
Elisa Mason
Information Specialist
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