Dear List Members,
Below please find references to new online
publications, periodicals, events/opportunities, web
sites and other electronic resources.
**Online Publications**
Asylum seekers and refugees in Britain: What brings
asylum seekers to the United Kingdom?, by Angela
Burnett and Michael Peel, British Medical Journal
322 (24 Feb. 2001) -
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7284/485
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2000 -
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/
- Annual U.S. Department of State surveys of human
rights practices around the world.
Endless Brutality: Ongoing Human Rights Violations in
Chechnya. A Report by Physicians for Human Rights (23
Jan. 2001) -
http://www.phrusa.org/research/chechnya/chech_rep.html
INCORE guide to Internet sources on conflict and
ethnicity in El Salvador (Feb. 2001) -
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/elsalvador.html
- See other available country guides at
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/index.html.
Existing guides on Colombia and the DRC were recently
updated.
Judgement of Trial Chamber II in the Kunarac, Kovac,
and Vukovic Case (22 Feb. 2001) -
http://www.un.org/icty/pressreal/p566-e.htm
- First convictions by the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) involving
rape and enslavement as crimes against humanity.
Politics and Humanitarian Aid: Debates, Dilemmas and
Dissension, Commonwealth Institute, London, 1 February
2001 -http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/aidandpolitics.html
- Papers from this conference are available in Word 97
or PDF formats.
**Periodicals**
INCORE Guide to Journals concerned with Conflict and
Peace -
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/metadata/journals.html
- Updated Jan. 2001.
Journal of Citizenship Studies, vol. 5, no. 1 (Feb.
2001) -
http://alidoro.catchword.com/vl=74222964/cl=175/nw=1/rpsv/cw/www/carfax/13621025/v5n1/contp1-1.htm
**Events/Opportunities**
Course on Central/Eastern-European Minorities in the
Context of the EU Enlargement, Transylvanian Committee
of the Association for Community Colleges, Budapest,
24 June-7 July 2001 -
http://www.acc.eu.org/framesprog.htm
- Scroll down to relevant entry; more detailed program
available; course language will be English.
Europe, Refugees and International Migration, 6th
Annual Humanitarian Conference, Webster University,
Geneva, 5 - 6 April 2001 -
http://www.webster.ch/Conferences/Cont2001.htm
- Includes program and registration information.
(Note: When accessing the a/m URL, you may be
bombarded by messages asking if you want to download
Flash 5.0. If you are not inclined to do so, you must
persistently click on "no" and eventually, the
conference page will appear!)
**Web Sites**
AidMarketSpace - http://www.aidmarketspace.com/
- Available in English, French and Spanish; "aims to
be a multi-lingual, single-point of contact for the
selection and procurement of relief, medical and
administrative support goods; an electronic
marketplace for humanitarian action."
World Bank Photo Library -
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/emps/photo.htm
- Includes 500 online development-related images;
registration required, although users may also browse
the library by entering "guest" as the user name and
"browse" as the password. Thumbnails of each photo
are provided, although with brief description. Copies
can be ordered online.
**Other Electronic Resources**
Country Information CD-ROM -
http://www.ein.org.uk/newslett/issue12.htm#mapping
- New CD-ROM housing human rights country reports,
developed by HJT. The Electonic Immigration Network
is negotiating access to these materials via the EIN
web site. For more info., e-mail [log in to unmask]
Elisa Mason
Information Officer, Forced Migration Portal Project
Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford
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