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Below please find references to new online publications, journal/newsletter
issues, events and opportunities, and web sites.
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**World Refugee Day/Refugee Week UK**
For more information about events around the world commemorating World Refugee
Day, June 20th, visit http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/events?id=3e7f46e04.
Additional activities are listed on United for Intercultural Action’s site:
http://www.united.non-profit.nl/pages/act06rfc.htm
Activities relating to Refugee Week in the UK, 19-25 June 2006, are listed on
the Refugee Council’s site: http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/Introduction.htm
**Online Articles/Publications**
2005 Global Refugee Trends: Statistical Overview of Populations of Refugees,
Asylum-Seekers, Internally Displaced Persons, Stateless Persons, and Other
Persons of Concern to UNHCR (June 2006) -
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi- bin/texis/vtx/events/opendoc.pdf?tbl=STATISTICS&id=4486ceb12
Breaking the Code: Building Capacity to Investigate Sexual Abuse and
Exploitation by Humanitarian Workers. Evaluating ICVA’s Building Safer
Organizations Project (June 2006) -
http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/BSO.pdf
International Migration and Development: Report of the Secretary-General,
A/60/871 (18 May 2006) -
http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/LIB/DHLRefWeblog.nsf/dx/07062006102342AMNGRJWA.htm
Master Glossary of Terms, rev. 1 (June 2006) -
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=RSDLEGAL&id=42ce7d444
- Produced by UNHCR’s Status Determination and Protection Information Section.
Political Rights of Persons Displaced by Conflict: Colloquium at the
International Organization for Migration, June 13, 2006 -
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/20060613_wk_iomaddress.htm
Research with Children Living in Situations of Armed Conflict: Concepts,
Ethics & Methods, RSC Working Paper No. 30 (May 2006) -
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/workingpaper30.pdf
Researching Violence Against Women: A Practical Guide for Researchers and
Activists (May 2006) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/HMYT-6QBJDQ?OpenDocument
Saving lives through livelihoods: critical gaps in the response to the drought
in the Greater Horn of Africa, HPG Briefing Note (May 2006) -
http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/papers/RAPID_HornAfricaBriefing.pdf
Trafficking in Persons Report 2006 -
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2006/
Turning the tide? Why 'development instead of migration' policies are bound to
fail, International Migration Institute Working Paper No. 2 (2006) -
http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/publications
UNHCR's Position on the Continued International Protection Needs of
Individuals from Kosovo (June 2006) -
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=SUBSITES&id=4492bdaa2
WFP Forum on the Future of Food Aid in Sudan, 6–8 June 2006, Khartoum -
http://nutrition.tufts.edu/research/famine/publications/food_aid_2006.html
World Refugee Survey 2006: Rights and Risks -
http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1565&subm=19&ssm=29&area=Investigate
**Journals/Newsletters**
Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 19 (Spring 2006) -
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/iss19/ (contents)
- Theme is “UN reform and human rights.”
International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, vol. 24, no. 1 (March
2006) - http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/ijmed/v24n1.html (contents)
Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations, vol. 9 (May 2006) -
http://www.unsystem.org/scn/archives/nics09/index.htm (full-text)
Refugee Livelihoods Network Newsletter (May 2006) -
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/research/opendoc.pdf?tbl=RESEARCH&id=448ed24b2
(full-text)
- Final issue.
Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 2 (2006) -
http://rsq.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol25/issue2/index.dtl?etoc (contents)
- Focus is refugee livelihoods.
**Events & Opportunities**
Call for Papers: 2006 Refugee and Immigrant Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 19-
20 September 2006 – http://www.thecenterweb.org/alrc/pdfs/sept19-proposal.pdf
Course on the Law of Internal Displacement, Sanremo, Italy, 2-7 October 2006 -
http://web.iihl.org/site/10831/default.aspx
Immigration, Transit et Rétention: Le Maghreb à l’épreuve des circulations
transsahariennes, Marseille, France, 2- 4 Novembre 2006 -
http://terra.rezo.net/article418.html
“Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practices to Achieve Global Goals,” Unite
for Sight's Fourth Annual International Health Conference, 14-15 April 2007 -
Stanford University School of Medicine, CA -
http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php
- Deadline for abstracts for presentations or posters is July 15.
Sixth Intensive Summer Programme of the European Doctorate on Migration,
Diversity and Identities, University of Liège, 21-31 August 2006 -
http://www.cedem.ulg.ac.be/news_cedem/index.php?2006/06/01/8-intensive-programme-on-theories-on-international-migrations
- Deadline for registration is June 30th.
**Web Sites/Tools**
The Advocacy Project - http://www.advocacynet.org/
- “[S]erve the needs of civil society - particularly community based advocates
for peace and human rights. We give special attention to helping NGOs and
networks become self sufficient in the use of information and communications
technologies.” Good site to discover new blogs that focus on
humanitarian/development/peace issues.
Internet Detective - http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.html
- Tutorial designed to teach online visitors to think more critically about
how to undertake research on the Internet.
Elisa Mason
Information Specialist
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