Dear List Members,
Below, please find references to new online publications, journals/newsletters, and upcoming
events. I have also compiled a brief list of links for news and other information relating
to the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan.
**Online Publications**
Clarke, John N., "A Pragmatic Approach to Humanitarian Assistance", Journal of Humanitarian
Assistance (Sept. 2001) - http://www.jha.ac/articles/a072.pdf
ECHO, Annual Review 2000 - Humanitarian crisis: out of the spotlight (Sept. 2001) -
http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/en/publicat/publications2_1.htm
- French version available at http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/fr/publicat/publications2_1.htm;
posted in .pdf; note: these are large files so they will most likely take a long time to
download.
FAO, The State of Food and Agriculture 2001 - http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/X9800E/X9800E00.HTM
- Also available in French (http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/X9800F/X9800F00.HTM) and Spanish
(http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/X9800S/X9800S00.HTM).
Refugee Council of Australia, Discussion Paper on Family Unity and Family Reunification
(Aug. 2001) – http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/position082001.htm
**Journals/Newsletters**
Talk Back, vol. 3-4 (Sept. 2001) - http://www.icva.ch/cgi-bin/browse.pl?doc=doc00000418
- ICVA's full-text newsletter
Women's Asylum News, no. 13 (Aug. 2001) -
http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/RWRP/women's%20asylum%20news.htm
- Full-text, available in Word or RTF formats.
**Events**
5th European Conference on the Integration of Refugees, Helsinki, 12-13 November 2001 -
http://www.iom.fi/RefConf5
- "The purpose of the Conference Furthering the Spirit of Tampere is to support the
institutions of the EU and its Member States, NGOs, refugee and community groups, social
partners, international agencies and the academic community to meet the broad challenges of
integrating refugees."
Pre-EXCOM NGO Meeting, Palais des Nations, Geneva, 24-26 September 2001
- See draft agenda at http://www.icva.ch/parinac/docs/doc00000408/en/view; ICVA has also
prepared a practical guide for attending the EXCOM and pre-EXCOM meetings -
http://www.icva.ch/parinac/docs/doc00000422/en/view
The Refugee Convention "Where to from here," University of New South Wales, Australia, 6-9
December 2001 - http://www.crr.unsw.edu.au/Conference.html
- Will examine the relevance of the 1951 Convention in 2001 and beyond.
UNHCR 52nd Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme Meeting, Geneva, 1-5
October 2001
- See the provisional annotated agenda at
http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/unhcr/excom/reports/g0102555.pdf; other preliminary documents
are available at http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/refworld/unhcr/excom/reports/2001.htm.
Weekly Seminars on Forced Migration - http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/rsc/main_seminars.html
- New line-up of seminars at the RSC.
**Focus: Afghanistan**
These resources can be used to monitor developments relating to the humanitarian situation
in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan Online - http://www.afghan-web.com
- Provides English-language news stories on Afghanistan.
AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org
- Provides a live newsfeed from Reuters for breaking news stories and articles that report
on the work of relief agencies.
Daypop - http://www.daypop.com
- A specialized current events search engine that indexes 2700 news and opinion sites once a
day. This means that you can get extremely current search results. Daypop allows you to
limit your search to information that is anywhere from 3 hours to a month old.
Immigration News - http://www.refugee.immigrationnews.org
- A daily news service with headlines on refugee-related stories.
Reliefweb - http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLCE/Afghanistan?OpenDocument&StartKey=Afghanistan&Expandview
- Provides the latest reports pertaining to Afghanistan.
UNHCR in the News - http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/cgi-bin/newscountry.pl?country=Afghan&country2=Pakistan
- Automatically generated list of search results on Afghan refugees from the UNHCR in the
News service, which provides summaries of news stories.
World Refugee - http://www.worldrefugee.com
- Provides refugee-related news headlines and links to relevant sites.
Country profiles on the existing situation confronting Afghan refugees and displaced persons
are available from:
AlertNet - http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/countryprofiles/152478
UNHCR - http://www.unhcr.ch/news/media/afghan/latest.htm
U.S. Committee for Refugees - http://www.refugees.org/world/countryrpt/scasia/afghanistan.htm
Elisa Mason
Information Manager, Forced Migration Online
Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford
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