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**Online Publications**



Asylum claims and drug offences: the seriousness threshold of Article 1F(b) of 

the 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees and the UN Drug 

Conventions, New Issues in Refugee Research (March 2005) - 

http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?

tbl=RESEARCH&id=423add922&page=research (PDF)



Comments from the European Council on Refugees and Exiles on the Amended 

proposal for a Council Directive on minimum standards on procedures in Member 

States for granting and withdrawing refugee status, as agreed by the Council 

on 19 November 2004 (March 2005) - 

http://www.ecre.org/ECRE%20PD%20comments.pdf (PDF)



Consistent and predictable responses to IDPs: A review of UNHCR’s decision-

making processes, EPAU/2005/2 (March 2005) - http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-

bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.pdf?tbl=RESEARCH&id=423551522&page=research (PDF)



Drop in Asylum Numbers Shows Changes in Demand and Supply (April 2005) - 

http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=303 



Eurasylum monthly policy interview, with Mr. Manolo Abella, Former Director of 

the International Migration Branch at the International Labour Office, 

on "ILO’s contribution to the development of international instruments and 

standards on migration management and migrant integration policies" - 

http://www.eurasylum.org/Portal/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=2&tabid=19



Internal Displacement: Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2004 

(March 2005) - http://www.idpproject.org/global_overview.htm (HTML, PDF)



Protecting Children in Emergencies (Spring 2005) - 

http://www.rb.se/NR/rdonlyres/4312DF68-06B5-41AA-89FA-79CA4861C3FE/0/newsletter3.pdf (PDF)



Razor's Edge - The Controversy of Female Genital Mutilation, IRIN Web Special 

(March 2005) - http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/FGM/default.asp 



Security Council Refers Situation in Darfur, Sudan, to Prosecutor of 

International Criminal Court, Resolution 1593 (2005) (31 March 2005) - 

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2005/sc8351.doc.htm 



Study on customary international humanitarian law: A contribution to the 

understanding and respect for the rule of law in armed conflict (March 2005) - 

http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/6AGK83/$File/CustoLaw_Study.pdf (PDF)



Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2004 – 2005 (March 

2005) -http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/shrd/2004/index.htm  

- Complements the State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 

in 2004 (released Feb. 2005)



UNHCR Provisional Comments on the Proposal for a Council Directive on Minimum 

Standards on Procedures in Member States for Granting and Withdrawing Refugee

Status (Council Document 14203/04, Asile 64, of 9 November 2004) (Feb. 2005) - 

http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-

bin/texis/vtx/home/+2wwBmueZPQ3wwwwnwwwwwwwhFqnN0bItFqnDni5zFqnN0bIAFqnN0bIDzmx

wwwwwww1FqnN0bI/opendoc.pdf?tbl=RSDLEGAL&id=42492b302 (PDF)



**New Print Publications**



The Economic Life of Refugees, by Karen Jacobsen (Kumarian Press, June 2005) - 

http://www.kpbooks.com/details.asp?title=The+Economic+Life+of+Refugees 



Internal Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of the UN's Guiding 

Principles, ed. by Paula Banerjee et al. (Sage Publications, March 2005) - 

http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=10874 



Poverty, International Migration and Asylum, ed. by George J. Borjas and Jeff 

Crisp (Palgrave, March 2005) - 

http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403943656 

- Table of contents and sample chapter at http://www.palgrave.com/pdfs/1403943656.pdf. 



Trends in International Migration - SOPEMI 2004, by OECD (Databeuro, March 

2005) - http://www.databeuro.com/acatalog/Migration_page_1.html#a879 and 

http://www.oecd.org/document/56/0,2340,en_2649_201185_34605816_1_1_1_1,00.html 

- Tables and graphs are available at 

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/61/37/34607274.pdf. 



**Journals/Newsletters**



CrisisWatch, no. 20 (1 April 2005) - 

http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=3350

- International Crisis Group’s monthly monitoring of the status of conflict 

situations.



Talk Back, vol. 7-2 (30 March 2005) - 

http://www.icva.ch/cgi-bin/browse.pl?doc=doc00001356

- Special issue with statements by six of the eight UNHCR candidates.



**Events & Opportunities**



33ème Cours sur le Droit des Réfugiés, 12-16 avril 2005, Sanremo, Italie - 

http://web.iihl.org/

- Programme details available in Word format on right side of home page; 

courses in English and Spanish available later in the year.



Application of International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights and Refugee Law: 

UN Security Council, Peacekeeping Forces, Protection of Human Beings in 

Disaster Situations, 8-10 September 2005, San Remo, Italy - 

http://web.iihl.org/ 



Refugee Rights Awareness Week, April 2005 - 

http://www.yorku.ca/crs/News/Refugee%20Rights%20Day%20Flyer.pdf 

- Centre for Refugee Studies activities to commemorates the 20th anniversary 

of the Singh decision (available at http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/csc-

scc/en/pub/1985/vol1/html/1985scr1_0177.html) 



Symposium on Trafficking in Persons, 7-9 April 2005, Tulane University, New 

Orleans - http://www.law.tulane.edu/symposium/ 



World Health Day 2005: Make Every Mother and Child Count, 7 April 2005 - 

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/2005/whd/en/index.html 



**Web Sites**



ECOI Mailing List, "COI-L" - 

http://www.ecoi.net/mailing.php?iflang=en&country=15

- "...[E]stablished as a tool to disseminate and share country of origin 

information among persons and organizations involved in refugee status 

determination procedures."



UNHCR (French-language version) - http://www.unhcr.fr

- Mirrors the international site in look, structure and content.





Elisa Mason

Information Specialist



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