Dear List Members,
Below please find references to new online publications, journal/newsletter
issues, events and opportunities, and web sites.
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**Online Publications**
2002 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (March 2003) -
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/
Guidelines for the Treatment of Afghan Asylum Seekers & Refugees in Europe
(April 2003) - http://www.ecre.org/positions/afghan2.shtml
- Available in HTML, Word and PDF formats.
Humanitarian Principles and the Conflict in Iraq (April 2003) -
http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/papers/briefing_note_april2003.pdf (in PDF)
People Flow: Managing migration in a New European Commonwealth (2003) -
http://www.demos.co.uk/peopleflow/ (in PDF)
- Proposes new model for managing migration.
Reconstructing Afghanistan: Lessons for Post-War Iraq? (April 2003) -
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=117
Responding to the Asylum and Access Challenge: An Agenda for Comprehensive
Engagement in Protracted Refugee Situations (April 2003) -
http://www.ecre.org/policy/publications.shtml (available in PDF and Word
formats)
- Prepared by ECRE and USCR.
Starting Over: Young Refugees Talk about Life in Britain (April 2003) -
http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/Downloads/refugee08.pdf (in PDF)
Updated Profile on Internal Displacement in Nepal (April 2003) -
http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wCountries/Nepal
**Journals/Newsletters**
Al-Majdal Magazine, no. 16/17 ((Dec. 2002 - March 2003) -
http://www.badil.org/Publications/Majdal/2003/majdal16-17.pdf (in PDF)
Human Rights Features - http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc/hrfchr59/index.htm
- Special weekly editions for the 59th session of the Commission on Human
Rights; prepared by the South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre and
the Human Rights Documentation Center.
IFPRI Forum (March 2003) -
http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/newsletters/ifpriforum/IF200303.htm
- From the International Food Policy Research Institute; available in HTML
and PDF formats.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 29, no. 1 (Jan. 2003) -
http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/carfax/1369183x/v29n1/contp1-1.htm
(contents and abstracts)
Refugees Magazine, no. 130 (April 2003) -
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/+_wwBmep_c1KwwwwnwwwwwwwxFqzvqXs_
+nw6hFqhT0NuItFqnp1xcAFqhT0yfEDzmwwwwwwww5FqOIZu2g0acoAnaeTRfr-uH00TEHeTGktm
e2xww/openlist.html (full-text)
- Focus is on "Sri Lanka - The Road to Recovery." Available in both
high-resolution and low-resolution PDF formats.
**Events & Opportunites**
Conference on the Issue of Refugees, 3-7 June 2003, Rieti, Italy -
http://www.ariweb.it/Conference/ing/conference.htm
- Focus is on reception, integration and voluntary repatriation of refugees;
info. also available in Italian.
Intercountry Adoption Research Group -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/intadoptresearch/
- Forum for people "interested in current research pertaining to
intercountry adoption."
Jobs & Scholarships Announcement Forums -
http://www.conflicttransformation.org/forum-intro.asp
- A "resource for careers and opportunities in human rights, peace and
conflict resolution, development and Civil Society development."
Palestinian Right of Return and Self-Determination in a New Colonial World:
Strategies and actions, Al-Awda International Convention, 20-22 June 2003,
Toronto - http://al-awda.org/?page=Al-Awda%20INTERNATIONAL%20CONVENTION
Risks and Rights: The Causes, Consequences, and Challenges of
Development-Induced Displacement, 29 April 2003, Johns Hopkins SAIS Refugee
Policy Forum - http://www.idpproject.org/upcoming/DIDApril29.pdf
- Presentation by W. Courtland Robinson, Johns Hopkins University School of
Public Health,
The Role of International Law in Peacemaking and Crafting Durable Solutions
for Palestinian Refugees, 22-23 May 2003, University of
Ghent/Department of Third World Studies.
- First of a series of seminars in the Badil Expert Forum for a Rights-Based
Approach to the Palestinian Refugee Question (2003 - 2004); for more
information, please email [log in to unmask]
**Web Sites**
59th Session of the Commission on Human Rights, 17 March - 25 April 2003 -
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/59chr/
- Provides information notes, agendas, official documents, briefing notes,
and audio archives.
A Review of Peace Operations: A Case for Change -
http://ipi.sspp.kcl.ac.uk/peaceoperationsreview
- Study conducted by the Conflict, Security and Development Group at Kings
College London; the "aim is for the report's analysis, observations and
proposed actions to help improve the planning and implementation processes
of both future and existing operations, and provide a basis for developing
responses for UN member states and in particular the UN"; among other
things, the site provides background info. and access to four country
reports on Sierra Leone, Kosovo, East Timor and Afghanistan.
Legal Assistance through Refugee Clinics (LARC) - http://www.larc.info
- Project of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee.
West African Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons Network (WARIPNET) =
Réseau ouest-africain pour les personnes déplacées et les réfugiés
(WARIPNET) - http://www.waripnet.org
- Current focus of the network is on social and economic rights,
accountability, mass refugee influx, and racism/xenophobia.
Elisa Mason
Information Manager, Forced Migration Online
Refugee Studies Centre, Univ. of Oxford
http://www.forcedmigration.org
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