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On 4 December 2008, ODI, the BBC World Service Trust, and the Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) will host "Left in the Dark: The Unmet Need for Information in Humanitarian Response." Speakers will discuss the power of information to save lives during disasters and how the humanitarian community can better address the information needs of affected populations. A BBC World Service Trust policy...

The rainy season has begun in Maun with showers and storms every day this week. AllAfrica.com has republished a story from Windhoek's New Era newspaper about a recent meeting to discuss creation of a flood-based contingency plan that is intended to develop into a National Flood Contingency Plan and eventually expand to a Multi-Hazard Contingency Plan for Namibia. The meeting of representatives...

From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLVI, no. 68, 29 October 2008 Supplement B: Bill No. 35 of 2008: Livestock Improvement Bill, 2008 B.313-B.330 From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLVI, no. 69, 31 October 2008 Republic of Botswana: Tender: Design, supply and implementation of the National Disaster Management System for the National Disaster Management Office 5536 Republic of...

Desperate Lives: Burmese Refugee Women Struggle to Make a Living in Malaysia (Women's Commission, Oct. 2008) [text] An Introduction to Human Trafficking: Vulnerability, Impact and Action (UN Office on Drugs and Crime, 2008) [text] The long road home: Opportunities and obstacles to the reintegration of IDPs and refugees returning to Southern Sudan and the Three Areas. Report of Phase II:...

Disasters, vol. 32, no. 3 (Sept. 2008) [contents] - Mix of articles. European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 10, no. 2 (2008) [contents] - Mix of articles, including one on the detention of asylum-seekers. Posted in...

Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 2007 (Home Office, August 2008) [text] Forced Evictions and the Right to Housing of Roma in Russia (Intl. Fed. for Human Rights, July 2008) [text via Refworld] The Looming Crisis: Displacement and Security in Iraq (Brookings Institution, August 2008) [text] Manuel pour la protection des déplacés internes (IASC, 2008; English version issued earlier) [text via...

The Climate Change-Displacement Nexus (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, July 2008) [text] For Disaster IDPs: An Institutional Gap (Brookings Institution, August 2008) [text] Guiding Principles for Human Rights Field Officers Working in Conflict and Post-conflict Environments (Univ. of Nottingham, July 2008) [text via ReliefWeb] The Many Faces of Displacement: IDPs in Zimbabwe...

2008 Peace Process Yearbook (Escola de cultura de pau, June 2008) [text] Alert 2008! Report on conflicts, human rights and peacebuilding (Escola de cultura de pau, June 2008) [text] Annual Disaster Statistical Review: The Numbers and Trends 2007 (CRED, ISDR & UCL, 2008) [text] Humanitarian Action Report 2008 (UNICEF, June 2008) [text] Posted in...

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 17, no. 1 (2008) [contents] - Includes an article on displacement from the Three Gorges dam in China. Conflict Trends, no. 1 (2008) [full-text] - Tenth anniversary issue. Cultures & Conflits, no. 69 (printemps 2008) [texte intégral] - Focus of this issue is "Xénophobie de gouvernement, nationalisme d'Etat." Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 17,...

Six months after the 2007 edition was published, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has launched its World Disasters Report 2008. The theme of this issue is "Rising to the challenge of HIV in disasters and crises." The complete text of the book is provided online in English, while chapter summaries are available in French and Spanish; Arabic summaries...

2007 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons (UNHCR, June 2008) [text] The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: Annotations, 2nd ed. (ASIL and Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, 2008) [access] Policy Plan on Asylum: An Integrated Approach to Protection across the EU (Commission of the European Communities, June 2008)...

"From Isolation to Integration" Conference, Papers and Presentations, Jan. 2008 [access] Kenya: Setting the Stage for Durable Peace? (USIP, April 2008) [text] McAdam, J., ed., Forced Migration, Human Rights and Security, Studies in International Law, no. 17 (Hart Publishing, March 2008) [description & TOC] Memorandum to the JHA Council - Ending the asylum lottery: Guaranteeing refugee...

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 16, no. 4 (2007) [contents] - Theme is "The Migration and Development Prism: A Lens on Vulnerabilities and Capabilities." Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 23, no. 1 (Feb. 2008) [contents] - Mix of articles, including one on "Australasian libraries in the emergency sector." Disasters, vol. 32, no. 2 (June 2008) [contents] - Mix of...

Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 17, no. 1 (2008) [contents] - Mix of articles including one on learning the lessons of disasters from the past 105 years. Disasters, vol. 32, no. 1 (March 2008) [contents] - Mix of articles including one on IDP women in Colombia. European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 9, no. 4 (2007) [contents] - Mix of articles. Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 30,...

The 2007 edition of the World Disasters Report was launched today by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The focus is on "tackling discrimination in disasters." Read the press release for an overview. This is the first issue that the IFRC has made available online in full-text (by chapter or the whole report). French and Spanish versions are also...

Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 16, no. 5 (2007) [contents] - Mix of disaster-related articles. Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 30, no. 6 (2007) [contents] - Theme of this issue is "New Directions in the Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 3, no. 2 (Oct. 2007) [contents, sample article] - Mix of articles,...

Climate Alarm: Disasters Increase as Climate Change Bites (Oxfam, Nov. 2007) [text] Human Development Report 2007/2008 (UNDP, Nov. 2007) [access] - Focus is on the development impact of climate change. Iraqi Refugees: A Lot of Talk, Little Action (Refugees International, Nov. 2007) [text] Papers presented to UNHCR EXCOM 2007 (Australian Refugee Rights Alliance, Centre for Refugee Research,...

Asylon(s), no. 2 (nov. 2007) [full-text] - Theme of this issue is "Terrains d'ASILES." Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, no. 2007-2 (Nov. 2007) [full-text] - Mix of articles, with several on psychosocial aspects of disasters. Conflict, Security & Development, vol. 7, no. 4 (2007) [contents] - Mix of articles, including one on conflict-generated diasporas. Disasters, vol....

African Security Review, vol. 16, no. 3 (Sept. 2007) [full-text] - Theme of this issue is "Conflict Prevention and the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ in Africa." Development in Practice, vol. 17, no. 6 (2007) [contents] - Focus is on violence and development in Central and South America. Includes article on "Violence in development: the logic of forced displacement on Colombia's Pacific coast."...

Asylum in the European Union: A Study of the Implementation of the Qualification Directive (UNHCR, Nov. 2007) [text]Law and legal issues in international disaster response: a desk study (IFRC, Nov. 2007) [text]Persécutions des femmes: Savoirs, mobilisations et protections (Editions Du Croquant, Nov. 2007) [access contents, summary, preface and full-text of the introduction] Refugee Issues...

This year the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in the developing world has set new records- though, setting new records for highest floods, most damage, most killed, etc, etc, seems to be common, and the media stops paying attention once the story becomes old. But for those affected, the real impacts of climate change are more than just another story on the news, and the urgency of action has a whole different meaning. When disasters hit, you realize how vulnerable we are and how little everything else matters. We often talk about the impacts of climate change, but not often we listen to those stories. I write from central Vietnam. The provinces of Ninh Binh, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, and Ha Tinh were hit by a powerful typhoon two weeks ago, typhoon Lekima, and reconstruction...

Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 16, no. 4 (2007) [contents] - Mix of articles. Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 30, no. 5 (2007) [contents] - Mix of articles. European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 9, no. 3 (2007) [contents] - Mix of articles. Hommes et Migrations, no. 1266 (mars/avril 2007) [contents, selected full-text] - Focus is on "Nouvelles figures de l’immigration en...

New Issues: Disasters, vol. 31, no. 3 (Sept. 2007) [contents] - Mix of articles. Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3 (August 2007) [contents] - Mix of articles. Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (August 2007) [full-text] - New article posted on humanitarianism and the Muslim world. Refugees Magazine, no. 147 (August 2007) [full-text] - Special issue on stateless people. New Journal:...

Asylum News, no. 55 (July 2007) [text] CrisisWatch, no. 48 (August 2007) [text] Disasters: Preparedness and Mitigation in the Americas, no. 107 (June 2007) [text] Human Rights Professionals Newsletter, no. 6 (July 2007) [text] Human Security Research (23 July 2007) [text] - Focus is on the costs of conflict. Serbian Refugee Council Newsletter, no. 4 (August 2007) [text] UN Chronicle, no. 2...

Courrier de la Planète, no. 81-82 (2007) [selected full-text] - Special issue on international migration; includes an interview with Stephen Castles. Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 16, no. 3 (2007) [contents] - Mix of articles. European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 9, no. 2 (2007) [contents] - Includes one article on the detention of asylum-seekers, and another on EU asylum...