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issues, events and opportunities, and web sites.
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**Online Articles/Publications**
Acts of Non-State Armed Groups and the Law Governing Armed Conflict (ASIL,
Aug. 2006) - http://www.asil.org/insights/2006/08/insights060824.html
Condemned Communities: Forced Evictions in Jakarta (Human Rights Watch, Sept.
2006) - http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/09/06/indone14111.htm
A Decade of Disappointment: Continuing Obstacles to the Reintegration of Serb
Returnees (Human Rights Watch, Sept. 2006) -
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/09/01/croati14114.htm
"Iran: A Vast Diaspora Abroad and Millions of Refugees at Home," Migration
Information Source (Shirin Hakimzadeh, Sept. 2006) -
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Profiles/display.cfm?id=424
"The Lebanese Crisis and Its Impact on Immigrants and Refugees," Migration
Information Source (Kara Murphy, Sept. 2006) -
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=419
Moving Young (UNFPA, 2006) -
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2006/moving_young_eng/preface.html
- Companion volume to State of World Population report listed below.
A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration - State of World
Population 2006 (UNFPA, 2006) - http://www.unfpa.org/swp/index.html
Refugees in the ‘sick role’: stereotyping refugees and eroding refugee rights,
New Issues in Refugee Research Paper, no. 128 (UNHCR, Aug. 2006) -
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/research/opendoc.pdf?tbl=RESEARCH&id=44e198712
Seminar on Displacement, Protection of Civilians and the Law of Armed Conflict
in the Current Middle East Crisis (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal
Displacement, 15 August 2006) -
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/20060815_ME_Report_FINAL.pdf
South Korea: ‘Migrant workers are also human beings’ (Amnesty International,
Aug. 2006) - http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA250072006
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights - Draft reports
from final session (Aug. 2006) -
http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/subcom/58/draftreport.htm
“We Want to Work”: Providing Livelihood Opportunities for Refugees in Thailand
(Women's Commission, Sept. 2006) -
http://www.womenscommission.org/pdf/Th_deleg.pdf
UNHCR’s Expanded Role in Support of the Inter-Agency Response to Internal
Displacement Situations (12 Sept. 2006) -
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/excom/opendoc.pdf?tbl=SUBSITES&id=44fe82a82
UNHCR Note on Diplomatic Assurances and International Refugee Protection (Aug.
2006) - http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=RSDLEGAL&id=44dc81164
**Journals/Newsletters**
Disasters, vol. 30, no. 3 (Sept. 2006) -
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/disa/30/3 (abstracts, selected full-text)
- Special focus on cash transfers; article texts available for free; includes
several other articles such as “Tsunami mortality and displacement in Aceh
province, Indonesia.”
Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 29, no. 5 (Sept. 2006) -
http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=m50l48681278 (abstracts)
Human Rights Brief, vol. 13, no. 3 (Spring 2006) -
http://www.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief/13/133.pdf?rd=1 (full-text)
- Focus is on the new UN Human Rights Council. Also includes an article
entitled “Victims of Terror Stopped at the Gate to Safety: The Impact of
the ‘Material Support to Terrorism’ Bar on Refugees.”
Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3 (Aug. 2006) -
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/toc/hrq28.3.html
(abstracts)
International Migration Review, vol. 40, no. 3 (Aug. 2006) -
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/imre/40/3 (abstracts)
International Review of the Red Cross, no. 861 (2006) -
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/section_review_2006_861?OpenDocument
(full-text)
- Focus is on international criminal tribunals.
Journal de forum réfugiés, no. 35 (juillet 2006) -
http://www.forumrefugies.org/pages/soutien/journal/journal35.htm
(selected full-text)
Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 19, no.3 (Sept. 2006) -
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl (abstracts)
- Special issue on urban refugees.
Plein Droit, no. 69 (juillet 2006) -
http://www.gisti.org/publications/plein-droit/en-ligne/liste.html
(selected full-text)
Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees, vol. 23, no. 1 (Winter 2006) -
http://www.yorku.ca/crs/Refuge/Refuge%2023_1.pdf (full-text)
- Focus is on refugee diasporas and transnationalism.
**Events & Opportunities**
Human Rights Council, 2nd Session, 18 September-6 October 2006, Geneva -
http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/2session/
Reception Conditions for Asylum Seekers in the EU, 26 September 2006,
Brussels - http://www.ulb.ac.be/assoc/odysseus/Congres2006UK.html
- 5th European Congress for Lawyers specialized in Asylum and Immigration in
Europe.
UNHCR Annual Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations, 27-29
September 2006, Geneva -
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/partners?id=3fb0b31f7
**Web Sites/Tools**
SudanReeves.org - http://www.sudanreeves.org/
- “Sudan research, analysis and advocacy.”
WorldPress.org – http://www.worldpress.org/
- “News and views from around the world.”
Elisa Mason
Information Specialist
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