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Dear List Members, Below please find various new URLs, online publications and journal issues. **New/Changed URLs** Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) - http://www.cred.be - The EM-DAT disaster database includes the complete text of Chapter 9 of the 2000 edition of the World Disasters Report; look under "summary data." Groupe d'information et de soutien des immigres (GISTI) - http://www.gisti.org/ - Includes selected full-text articles from each issue of its journal, Plein Droit, the texts of French legislation on nationality, citizenship, refugees, etc. Humanitarian Safety and Protection Network - http://www.hspn.org/hspn_home.asp - New site that focuses on security of humanitarian personnel. International Migration Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - http://www.ceip.org/files/projects/imp/imp_home.ASP Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit - http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/poli/prdu Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children - http://www.womenscommission.org **Newly Available Full-Text Publications** Armed Conflicts Report, 2000 edition (Project Ploughshares) - http://www.ploughshares.ca/content/ACR/ACR00/ACR00.html Conference Report: Researching on Humanitarian Assistance in Conflict Areas, 8-10 May 2000 (PRDU) - http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/poli/prdu/news.htm For the Record (Human Rights Internet) - http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord2000/ftrchoice.html - Note: Now includes review of the human rights system for Europe, in addition to the UN; available in English and French. UNHCR Environmental Guidelines - http://www.unhcr.ch/environ/guidelines.pdf - These were developed in 1996 but were recently posted to the web site in .pdf format. **New Periodical Issues** International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, vol. 18, no. 2 (August 2000) - http://www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/ijmed/v18n2.html - abstracts and table of contents available. International Review of the Red Cross, no. 838 (June 2000) - http://www.icrc.org/eng/review - click on "June"; also available in French. OCHA News, no. 53 (28 July 2000) - http://www.reliefweb.int/ocha_ol/pub/ochanews/index.html - in .pdf format. Refugee Nutrition Information System, no. 31 (July 2000) - http://acc.unsystem.org/scn/page6.html - in .pdf format. Sphere Project Newsletter, no. 5 (July 2000) - http://www.sphereproject.org/english/sphere/newsletter5.htm Elisa Mason Consultant, Forced Migration Portal Project Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%