A call for papers has been issued by the Human Rights University Network-Sur and UNHCR for a special issue of Sur's International Journal on Human Rights on the "Human Rights of People on the Move: Migrants and Refugees." The deadline for submissions is 30 January 2009.
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AWR Bulletin, vol. 45, no. 2 (2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles with one looking at asylum and immigration in Austria and Hungary.
Conflict and Health, 2:9 (30 Sept. 2008) [access]
- Includes article entitled "Users' guides to the medical literature: how to use an article about mortality in a humanitarian emergency."
Forced Migration Review, no. 31 (Sept. 2008) [full-text]
- The theme of this...
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Central America is serious, complex and growing. As of 2007, 1.6 million people are living with HIV in Latin America[1], with the highest per capita rates in Central America and Caribbean countries. The situation of HIV/AIDS in Latin America, sometimes dubbed “the overlooked epidemic,[2]” has gone largely unnoticed by the global community. However, within the region there is a network of civil society organizations working diligently to address the pandemic.
With an eye towards the international AIDS conference to be held in Mexico this August, Horizons of Friendship, the only Canadian international development agency working exclusively in Mexico and Central America, and its partners are working on a regional HIV/AIDS initiative. The conference...