Dear List Members,

Below please find references to new publications, periodical issues, events,
and web sites.

**Publications**

The State of the World's Refugees 2000: Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action
(UNHCR) - http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/pub/state/2000/toc.htm
- Officially launched Nov. 12th.  Available in full-text in PDF format.
Looks at the "history of forced displacement in the second half of the 20th
century."

World Migration Report 2000 (International Organization for Migration) -
http://www.iom.int/iom/Publications/WMRENG2000.htm
- See "press kit" for a more detailed overview of the contents; not
available in full-text.

**Periodicals**

British Medical Journal, vol. 321, no. 7270 (November 11, 2000) -
http://bmj.com/content/vol321/issue7270
- Includes news update on "UK helps refugee doctors to practise in NHS" and
paper on "Landmine injuries in Eritrea."  Full-text.

**Events**

Crisis in Colombia: Speakers Tour, November 2000 -
http://www.refugees.org/news/crisis/colombia2000_schedule.htm
- Series of events in the U.S. designed to raise awareness of IDP situation
in Colombia.

Transforming Civil Conflicts - http://www.netuni.nl/demos/tcc
- Four-week, online course, offered by the European Network University.

**Web Sites**

Alliance 2015 - http://www.alliance2015.org
- A new project to eradicate poverty by the year 2015, initiated by Concern
(Ireland), Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (Germany), Hivos (The Netherlands), and
Ibis (Denmark); the web site is currently descriptive, with additional
information to be added on the group's activities; there is also a members
only section.

Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development - http://www.forumasia.org
- In process of upgrading site; access to old site is still available and
includes info. on their activities including their campaign for IDPs.

Austcare - http://www.austcare.org.au
- Re-designed web site.

EurasiaNet.org - http://www.eurasianet.org
- Project of the Open Society Institute; includes a section on human rights
monitoring and resource pages for the various countries covered (Caucasus
and Central Asia)

Immigration and Refugee Services of America - http://www.refugeesusa.org
- New site on "helping refugees build new lives in the U.S."; includes news
updates and info. on refugee groups in the U.S.

INCORE: Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity -
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/home
- Redesigned site; two particularly useful sections of the site are the
"conflict data service" (with recently updated country guides, as well as
thematic guides, peace agreements, a researcher database and information
bank) and "ethnic conflict research digest" (with peer reviews of recently
published books, articles and papers)

Elisa Mason
Consultant, Forced Migration Portal Project
Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

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