Dear List Members,
Below please find references to new online publications, journal/newsletter
issues, events & opportunities, and web sites.
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**Online Publications**
The Coming Conflict Over Asylum: Does America Need a New Asylum Policy?
(March 2002) - http://www.cis.org/articles/2002/back102.html
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2001 -
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/
- Released in early March 2002.
For the Record 2001: United Nations -
http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord2001/index.htm
- Human Rights Internet's "annual summary and classification of United
Nations' human rights documentation by theme and by country"; also available
in French at http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord2001/bilan2001/index.htm.
Joint Declaration of the Special Rapporteurs on Women's Rights (8 March
2002) - http://www.cidh.org/declaration.women.htm
**Journals/Newsletters**
Human Rights in Georgia Bulletin (March 2002) -
http://ishrg.tripod.com/newsletter.htm (full-text)
- Available in PDF or DOC format.
Talk Back, vol. 4, no. 1 (March 2002) -
http://www.icva.ch/cgi-bin/browse.pl?doc=doc00000591 (full-text)
- Focus is on protection training.
**Events & Opportunities**
Consulting Services provided by Andrew Lawday - [log in to unmask]
- Can offer assistance in the following areas: "prepare your special
information products, news releases, appeals and newsletters; train your
staff for radio and TV work; contact journalists; edit and maintain your
website; and develop your strategies with key audiences and experts." Email
for costs and more info.
Evaluation of Health Programmes in Complex Emergencies, 8-12 April 2002 or
16-20 September 2002, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine -
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus/other_study/ofs17.htm
Global refugees: the sociology of exile, displacement and belonging, 17-19
April 2002, Staffordshire University, UK -
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/sociology/refuge
es.htm
- The keynote speaker for this conference will be Dr. Stephen Castles, the
director of the Refugee Studies Centre.
Human Rights Advocacy Training Programme -
http://www.wusuk.org/InternationalDiv/HRAT/hratp_content.htm
- "WUS(UK)'s Human Rights Advocacy Programme provides practical training and
support for refugees and other members of exiled communities in the UK who
are carrying out advocacy work focusing on the human rights situation in
their home countries." Click on forthcoming courses for info. on the Middle
East course in 2002.
**Web Sites**
ICVA's 40th Anniversary Web Site -
http://www.icva.ch/cgi-bin/browse.pl?doc=celeb_40
- Provides a history of the organization.
IOM's International protection campaign -
http://www.iom.int/internationalprotection
- "[A]ims at raising the awareness of the European public opinion towards
people in need of international protection (refugees, asylum seekers and
people with temporary protection status) with a view to easing their
eventual integration into the host societies."
Migration Information Source - http://www.migrationinformation.org/index.cfm
- Sign up to receive "fresh thought, authoritative data, and global analysis
of the migration trends that are shaping our world"; email service tied to
the launch of this new information web site in May.
Elisa Mason
Information Manager, Forced Migration Online
Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford
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