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issues, events and opportunities, and web sites.
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**Online Articles/Publications**
ALNAP Review of Humanitarian Action: Evaluation utilisation (Dec. 2006) -
http://www.alnap.org/publications/rha.htm#
Angola - Lives in ruins: forced evictions continue (Amnesty International, Jan.
2007) - http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR120012007
Challenges to Peace and Recovery in Darfur: A Situation Analysis of the Ongoing
Conflict and its Continuing Impact on Livelihoods, Briefing Paper (Feinstein
International Center, Dec. 2006) -
http://fic.tufts.edu/downloads/ChallengestoPeaceandRecoveryinDarfur.pdf
Developing history curricula to support multi-ethnic civil society among
Burmese refugees and migrants, New Issues in Refugee Resarch no. 139 (UNHCR,
Dec. 2006) - http://www.unhcr.org/research/RESEARCH/45890b542.pdf
Le droit d'asile en France: politique et réalité, New Issues in Refugee Resarch
no. 138 (UNHCR, Dec. 2006) -
http://www.unhcr.org/research/RESEARCH/45890ace2.pdf
Educational responses to HIV and AIDS for refugees and internally displaced
persons: Discussion paper for decision-makers (UNHCR and UNESCO, Jan. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/45caf0ba2.pdf
The extraterritorialisation of asylum and the advent of "protection lite," DIIS
Working Paper 2007/2 (Danish Inst. for International Studies, Jan 2007) -
http://www.diis.dk/sw32893.asp
Forced Migration and the Failure of Civilian Protection in Africa: A Way
Forward? (KAIPTC, Dec. 2006) -
http://www.kaiptc.org/aboutus/news.asp?nav=7&news_id=47
Human Security Brief 2006 (Human Security Centre, Dec. 2006) -
http://www.humansecuritybrief.info/
Humanitarian protection in Uganda: a Trojan Horse?, HPG Background Paper (ODI,
Dec. 2006) - http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/papers/BG_Protection_Uganda.pdf
Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The Good Enough Guide
(Oxfam, Feb. 2007) -
http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/display.asp?K=_2006111410173391&TAG=&CID=
International Crises and Disasters: U.S. Humanitarian Assistance, Budget
Trends, and Issues for Congress (Congressional Research Service, Dec. 2006) -
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33769.pdf
Oxfam International Humanitarian Policy Notes (Dec. 2006) -
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/conflict_disasters/oi_hum_policy.htm
- The themes of the first four are: humanitarian accountability, humanitarian
coordination, food aid, UN Peacebuilding Commission.
Reconstruction National Integrity System Surveys (TIRI, Jan. 2007) -
http://www.tiri.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=66
Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights of
internally displaced persons, Walter Kälin, Human Rights Council doc. no.
A/HRC/4/38 (Jan. 2007) –
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/CHR2007Annual_AE.pdf
The State of Food and Agriculture 2006 (FAO, Jan. 2007) -
http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0800e/a0800e00.htm
Trafficking in Persons Interim Assessment (U.S. Dept. of State, Jan. 2007) –
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/rpt/78948.htm
Trans/National Topologies: Power Gradients of Multiculturalisms, Migration
Methods and Field Notes #1 (FMSP, Jan. 2007) -
http://migration.wits.ac.za/Burman.pdf
'A violation of his or her human security': New grounds for the recognition of
refugee status: a proposal for reform, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 140
(UNHCR, Dec. 2006) - http://www.unhcr.org/research/RESEARCH/45bdbfba2.pdf
**Journals/Newsletters**
Field Exchange, no. 29 (Dec. 2006) -
http://www.ennonline.net/fex/current/Fex29.pdf (full-text)
- Compiled by the Emergency Nutrition Network. The focus is on Southern Africa.
International Migration Review, vol. 41, no. 1 (March 2007) -
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/imre/41/1 (contents)
Migration Information Source (Feb. 2007) - http://www.migrationinformation.org/
(full-text)
- Produced by the Migration Policy Institute. Focus of this issue is migration and development.
Refugees, no. 145 (Jan. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/doclist/publ/3b5696144.html (full-text)
- Published by UNHCR. The theme is "Huge country, huge problems, huge
potential: Can DR Congo turn the page?"
**Events & Opportunities**
ELENA International Course on Asylum Procedures, the EU and International Human
Rights Law, Rome, 4-6 May 2007 - http://www.ecre.org/upcoming_elena_courses
Human Rights Watch, Employment Opportunities - http://www.hrw.org/jobs/
- A number of jobs for researchers are currently being advertised.
Independent Asylum Commission, Public Hearings 2007 -
http://www.independentasylumcommission.org.uk/
- Public hearings conducted throughout the UK during 2007. Visit web site for
venues and dates.
Migration to the EU: Challenges, Rights and Opportunities, Oxford, 22 Feb.
2007 - http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/events/future_conferences_events.shtml
"Redefining Borders," Annual CRS Graduate Student Conference, Toronto, 3-4 May
2007 - http://www.yorku.ca/crs/
Terrorism, Migration and Asylum: EU Perspectives, Brussels, 15 Feb. 2007 -
http://www.migpolgroup.com/events/3600.html
- Conference organized by the Centre for European Policy Studies and the Centre
for Migration Law.
**Web Sites/Tools**
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance - http://jha.ac/
- Recently re-launched under the new management of the Feinstein International
Center.
Elisa Mason
Information Specialist
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