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Below please find references to new online publications, journal/newsletter
issues, events and opportunities, and web sites/tools.
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**Online Articles/Publications**
Addressing the Palestinian Refugee Issue: A Brief Overview (R. Brynen, May
2007) -
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/mepp/new_prrn/research/papers/brynen-070514.pdf
Benchmarks for Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons (IASC, March
2007) - http://www3.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/2007_Benchmarks_pilot.pdf
Comprehensive European Migration Policy (EU, May 2007) -
http://tinyurl.com/234e92
Contingency Planning and Humanitarian Action: A Review of Practice, Network
Paper no. 59 (HPN, March 2007) - http://www.odihpn.org/report.asp?id=2868
Coordinating the Humanitarian Response to Refugee Situations: The Role of Power
and Trust in Humanitarian Networks, Sussex Migration Working Paper No. 42
(Sussex Centre for Migration Research, 2007) -
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/migration/documents/mwp42.pdf
Denied Refuge: The effect of the closure of the Kenya/Somalia border on
thousands of Somali asylum-seekers and refugees (Amnesty International, May
2007) - http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR320022007
Durable Management for Durable Solutions: Organisational Performance Review
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Norad Report: Review 2/2007 (Norad, April
2007) - http://www.norad.no/default.asp?V_ITEM_ID=7480
European Strategies for Reducing 'Unwanted' Immigration (DIIS, April 2007) -
http://www.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/Briefs2007/Carling_europeanstrategies.pdf
First Global Consultation on HIV and Internally Displaced Persons, 24-25 April
2007, Report and Presentations -
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/46519e022.pdf and
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/46519e9a2.pdf
Forced Evictions - Towards Solutions? Second Report of the Advisory Group on
Forced Evictions to the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT (AGFE, 2007) -
http://www.cohre.org/store/attachments/2nd_AGFE_report.pdf
Guidelines on the Treatment of Iraqi Asylum Seekers and Refugees (ECRE, April
2007)-
http://www.ecre.org/resources/policy_papers/829
Human tide: the real migration crisis (Christian Aid, May 2007) -
http://www.christian-aid.org/indepth/705caweekreport/index.htm
International Human Rights Research Guide (GlobaLex, March 2007) -
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Human_Rights.htm
Iraq - From a Flood to a Trickle: Neighboring States Stop Iraqis Fleeing War
and Persecution (HRW, April 2007) -
http://hrw.org/backgrounder/refugees/iraq0407/
Iraq humanitarian crisis situation and NGOs' responses (NGO Coordination
Committee in Iraq, May 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LRON-737HCD?OpenDocument&RSS20=18-P
Last Hope: The Need for Durable Solutions for Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal and
India (Human Rights Watch, May 2007) - http://hrw.org/reports/2007/bhutan0507/
The Law, the Loss and the Lives of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, CMI Working
Paper 1 (CMI, 2007) -
http://www.cmi.no/publications/file/?2607=the-law-the-loss-and-the-lives-of-palestinian
Note on the Integration of Refugees in the European Union (UNHCR, May 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/463b462c4.pdf
Palestinian Refugees: Challenges of Repatriation and Development, ed. by R.
Brynen and R. El-Rifai (IDRC, 2007) – http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/231-0/
- Full-text e-book with access by chapter.
State of the World's Minorities 2007: Events of 2006 (Minority Rights Group
International, March 2007) -
http://www.minorityrights.org/admin/Download/pdf/SWM2007.pdf
“They Pushed Down the Houses”: Forced Evictions and Insecure Land Tenure for
Luanda’s Urban Poor (Human Rights Watch, May 2007) -
http://hrw.org/reports/2007/angola0507/
UNHCR Policy and Practice: Confronting Calls for Change (Journal of
Humanitarian Assistance, 30 April 2007) -
http://jha.ac/2007/04/30/unhcr-policy-and-practice-confronting-calls-for-change/
**Journals/Newsletters**
AWR Bulletin, vol. 44, no. 4 (Dec. 2006) -
http://www.awr-int.de/awr_bulletin_index.htm (contents)
Conflict Trends, no. 1 (2007) - http://www.accord.org.za/ct/2007-1.htm
(full-text)
- Focus is on parliaments and conflict resolution.
Development in Practice, vol. 17, no. 2 (2007) -
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g777157406~db=all (contents)
Disasters, vol. 31, no. 2 (June 2007) -
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/disa/31/2 (contents)
Field Exchange, no. 30 (April 2007) -
http://www.ennonline.net/fex/current/index.html (full-text)
International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 19, no. 1 (March 2007) -
http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl (contents)
- Includes articles on freedom of movement, Mozambican refugees in South
Africa, and African asylum law.
International Review of the Red Cross, no. 863 (2006) -
http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/section_review_2006_863?OpenDocument
(full-text)
- Focus is the "presence of private military companies (PMCs) in situation of
armed conflicts."
Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 20, no. 1 (March 2007) -
http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl (contents)
- Mix of articles on human security, health models in Sri Lanka, asylum in
Luxembourg, IDPs in Senegal, health among Greek Cypriot refugees, micronutrient
deficiencies among refugees, and poverty among Palestinian refugees in Jordan.
Migration Information Source (May 2007) - http://www.migrationinformation.org/
(full-text)
Signs, vol. 32, no. 3 (Spring 2007) -
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/Signs/journal/contents/v32n3.html (contents)
- Includes a special section with articles on "Women in Refugee Camps."
**Events & Opportunities**
Call for Papers: 6th MESEA Conference, “Migration Matters: Immigration,
Homelands, Border Crossings in Europe and the Americas,” 25-28 June 2008,
Leiden University, Netherlands -
http://www.mesea.org/conferences/2008/mesea_2008_cfp.pdf
Refugee Week Australia, 17-23 June 2007 -
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/newsevents/refugeeweek.html
- Theme is The Voices of Young Refugees.
Refugee Week UK, 18-24 June 2007 - http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk
Refugees and the End of Empire Conference, 29-30 June 2007, De Montfort
University, Leicester, UK -
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/partnerships/consultancy/innovation_centre/dmccc/conferences/empire/index.jsp
World Refugee Day, 20 June 2007 - http://www.unhcr.org/events/3e7f46e04.html
**Web Sites/Tools**
Citizenship Rights in Africa Initiative -
http://www.citizenshiprightsinafrica.org/
- “…[D]edicated to ending statelessness and the arbitrary denial of citizenship
in Africa.”
Preventing Torture through investigation and documentation –
http://www.preventingtorture.org
- Aim is to raise awareness of the Istanbul Protocol, “an invaluable tool for
health and legal professionals in establishing evidence of torture”; includes
using the Protocol in asylum procedures.
Elisa Mason
Information Specialist
http://fm-cab.blogspot.com
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