A Different Way Home: Resettlement Patterns in Northern Uganda (posted May 2010) [text]Enhancing the Capacity of the Externally Displaced in the Post-War Reconstruction of Sudan: An Exploratory Qualitative Study on Development, Civil Society, and Good Governance with Sudanese Refugees at Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya (posted May 2010) [text]From the Right to Asylum to Migration Management: The Legal-Political Construction of 'A Refugee' in the Post-Communist Czech Republic (posted July 2010) [text]Internally Displaced Persons: Protection Measures Under International Human Rights Framework (posted June 2010) [text]Media Representation of Human Trafficking in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada (posted July 2010) [text]News Frames and Story Triggers and in the Media’s Coverage of...
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Job vacancy:Senior Policy Officer - Forced Displacement, ICVA [info]- Apply by 1 August 2010.Lists:Immigration Detention Discussion List- "We are convening a new, moderated email list-serve. It will be of interest to academics and practitioners who would like to continue exploring the issue of immigration detention raised at the workshop. You are welcome to join whether or not you attended the workshop. Please email Stephanie Silverman for more details: stephanie.silverman@sant.ox.ac.uk."SRLAN List [info]- Circulates announcements relevant to refugee legal aid.Meetings:Environmental Degradation and Conflict: From Vulnerabilities to Capabilities, Bielefeld, Germany, 5-9 December 2010 [info]- "Aims to shed light on the complex dynamics of environmentally induced migration and the...
Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) announced the publication of the Outlook report 2010, iss.2 (full text, pdf, 6.07 MB).
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Country Reports 2009: Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine (ECRE, July 2010) [access]- "ECRE’s Eastern Europe project is publishing reports on the situation for IDPs, refugees and asylum seeker in the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation and Ukraine in 2009. As well as describing the situation for these groups of people, the reports also contain recommendations to governmental and international agencies on how to improve their protection."Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2010 (Development Initiatives, July 2010) [access]- "...GHA Report 2010 attempts to track: the response to need, the provision of finance, the actors involved, the funding mechanisms used, and the countries and projects prioritised."UNHCR Submissions for the "Universal Periodic...
Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (A/65/38) was issued. The report covers 44th and 45th sessions of the Committee that took place 20 July-7 August 2009 and 18 January-5 February respectively.......
Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 19, no. 3 (2010) [contents]- Mix of articles including "Snapshots in time: using real-time evaluations in humanitarian emergencies."Disasters, vol. 34, no. 3 (July 2010) [contents]- Mix of articles including "Minimization of socioeconomic disruption for displaced populations following disasters."Human Rights Brief, vol. 17, no. 3 (Spring 2010) [full-text]- Mix of articles.International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 92, no. 877 (March 2010) [full-text]- This issue focuses on "women."Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 36, no. 7 (August 2010) [contents]- Mix of articles including "Forced Displacement, Onward Migration and Reformulations of 'Home' by Chagossians in Crawley, UK" and "Forced Migrants, Active Mothers or Desired Wives: Migratory...
ICAR 2009/10 Seminar Series: Researching asylum seekers, refugees and migrants- Slideshows are available for some of the seminars.One-Day Workshop on The Meaning and Practice of Immigration Detention: Perspectives from Legal, Social, and Political Theory, University of Oxford, 21 May 2010- Presentations/papers have been posted; see also the podcast page for audio versions of the event.Regional Workshop on Protecting and Promoting Rights in Natural Disasters in South-East Asia: Prevention and Response, 14-15 May 2010- Report of the workshop is now available.Rights in Exile: Global Perspectives on Legal Assistance for Refugees and IDPs, 21 June 2010- Use the navigation menu on the left to access a recording of the conference; there are also photos (such as the one displayed on the right)...
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On 2 July 2010, the General Assembly voted unanimously on a resolution (paragraphs 49-50) to create the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women — or UN Women. The new body will merge four UN agencies and offices, the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Division for the Adv......
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions, vol. 16, no. 3 (July-Sept. 2010) [contents]- Special issue on international migration and global governance; includes "The Historical Roots of Cooperation Between the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration" as well as articles on "survival migration" and climate change and migration.Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 36, no. 6 (2010) [contents]- Theme is "On the Move: Emotions and Human Mobility"; includes "'Unkind Cuts': Health Policy and Practice versus the Health and Emotional Well-Being of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Ireland."Journal of Human Rights Practice, vol. 2, no. 2 (July 2010) [contents]- Theme is "'Responsibility to the Story'"; includes...
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The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in the framework of the Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) has developed the Needs Assessment Toolkit on the Criminal Justice Response to Human Trafficking.
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By Vijaya Ramachandran - This is a joint post with Julia Barmeier.
Tuesday, June 15 marks the last day that the board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) can object to the UNESCO-Obiang International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences, which is made possible by a $3 million grant given to UNESCO by Equatorial Guinea’s...
Beyond the Blanket: Towards More Effective Protection for IDPs in Southern Afghanistan (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, May 2010) [text]Levelling the playing field: A UNICEF UK report into provision of services to unaccompanied or separated migrant children in three local authority areas in England (UNICEF UK, May 2010) [text]Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/14/30 (UN General Assembly, April 2010) [text via Refworld]Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/14/32 (UN General Assembly, May 2010) [text via Refworld]The Right to Education of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum-seekers, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/14/25 (UN General Assembly, April 2010) [text via...
Human Rights Council held an urgent debate on 1-2 June 2010 on the raid on a humanitarian aid convoy off the coast of Gaza by Israeli Defence Forces. The Council decided (press release) to dispatch an independent international fact finding mission to investigate violations of international law resul......
Events:Extraterritoriality: The Juridical, Spatial, and Political Condition of Refugee Camps and Other Extraterritorial Spaces, Graduate Institute, Geneva, 11 June 2010 [info]- Public event hosted by the Programme for the Study of Global Migration and others.First Workshop on Climate Induced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa, Center for Mediterranean Integration, Marseille, 16 June 2010 [info]- Organized by the World Bank and others.Understanding the Refugee Experience, Swansea University, 18 June 2010 [info]- A day of events including a session on research on refugees in Wales, a film showing, and a lecture on refugees in British literature.LGBTI Asylum Seekers & Refugees: A Case of Double Jeopardy?, University of Greenwich, 5-7 July 2010 [info]- Register by 18 June...
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) published its annual report 2009 (full text, pdf ).
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Amnesty International released its 2010 annual report today. It surveys the human rights situation in 159 countries during 2009. The main theme is a global justice gap and the lack of government accountability. The report's web site includes facts and figures, an overview of the contents, key issues, a multimedia section, with video, audio and photos. It provides access to the complete text, information by region, and individual country profiles. Also available in the downloads section is multilingual access to the report (French, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, German and Italian).Tagged Publications....
Amnesty International has released the latest installment of their annual "The State of the World's Human Rights." This year Amnesty is calling on governments to held accountable for human rights abuses. Further, they say that governments must be held into account for not pulling their people out of poverty, not improving access to health care and education, and not meeting the Millennium Development Goals.From Reuters Alert Net, writer Katie Nguyen recieved some quotes from Amnesty. Alert Net also has this companion piece that gathers some of the statistics in the report. "Rights to food, education, health and housing are out of their reach, and they cannot claim them due to the non-existent, corrupt or discriminatory justice systems," Amnesty's interim secretary-general Claudio Cordone...
To mark the 10th anniversary of two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child - Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict the United Nations launched today a campai......
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published its annual report (full text, pdf, it covers activities and major results achieved in 2009 concerning impelementation of operational plans laid out in the Office's 2008-2009 Strategic Management Plan (SMP) (full text, pdf ). The r......
Conflict Trends, no. 1 (2010) [full-text]- Mix of articles.Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, vol. 33, no. 2 (Summer 2010) [contents] - Theme is "Reconceptualizing Human Rights." Includes "Human Trafficking: State Obligations to Protect Victims' Rights, the Current Framework and a New Due Diligence Standard."International Review of the Red Cross, no. 876 (Dec. 2009) [full-text]- Theme of this issue is the "International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent." Now available in full-text.Revue européenne des migrations internationales, vol. 25, no. 3 (2009) [contents]- Theme is "Anthropologie et migrations: Parcours et recherches." Includes "Une élite transnationale: la fabrique d’une identité professionnelle chez les fonctionnaires du Haut Commissariat des...
The Economic and Social Council Resolution 1745 (LIV) request the Secretary General to submit at five-year intervals, an analytical report on capital punishment. The last issue of this report entitled Capital punishment and implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of th......
Advances in Nursing Science, vol. 33. no. 2 (April/June 2010) [contents]- Focus is on immigrants and refugees. Includes "Narratives of 'Dissonance' and 'Repositioning' Through the Lens of Critical Humanism: Exploring the Influences on Immigrants' and Refugees' Health and Well-being" and "Somali Bantu Refugees in Southwest Idaho: Assessment Using Participatory Research."Fahamu Refugee e-Newsletter (April 2010) [full-text]- Reports news, information and resources.Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2 (May 2010) [contents]- Mix of articles including "Enhancing Enforcement of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Using Indicators: A Focus on the Right to Education in the ICESCR" and "Advancing the Rights of Non-Citizens in Canada: A Human Rights Approach to Migrant Rights."International...
International Labour Organization (ILO) announced that Global Child Labour Conference, which took place in The Hague, 10-11 May 2010, agreed on a Roadmap to step up action to eliminate the worst forms of child labour by 2016. According to the 3rd Global Report on Child Labour Accelerating action aga......
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) issued Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Somalia (full text). "Guidelines contain information on the current situation in Somalia and groups at risk of persecution or serious harm and assess their ......
The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has issued a new report, Child Adoption: Trends and Policies (ST/ESA/SER.A/292). The report provides a solid foundation for furthering research on child adoption and, more specifically, on the demographic factors that ......
The report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its 42nd and 43rd sessions are now available (E/2010/22 - E/C.12/2009/3). The sessions were held from 4-22 May 2009 and 2-20 November 2009.......
Action Plan on Unaccompanied Minors (2010–2014) (European Commission, May 2010) [text]- See also Commission Staff Working Document and related press release.Children as Witnesses of War: Forced Migration Among Ethnic Minorities in Mindanao, Philippines (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Feb. 2010) [text via SSRN]First Annual Report on Immigration and Asylum (2009) (European Commission, May 2010) [text via StateWatch]First Term Blues: Labor, Refugees and Immigration Reform, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 10/43 (Sydney Law School, May 2010) [text via SSRN]In El Salvador, a Firsthand Look at Human Rights and Natural Disaster Response (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, May 2010) [text]The Memorandum of Understanding between Egypt and the Office of the United Nations...
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May events:Conference: Migration and Refugees in the Region, AUC Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, 8-9 May 2010 [info]Discussion: Citizenship and Human Rights under the African Charter, Gambia, 14 May 2010 [info]Lecture: Refugees - Innocent Victims, Illegal Migrants or Political Pawns?, Univ. of New South Wales, 20 May 2010 [info]June events:Conference: Ethics in Humanitarian Action, National Jesuit Universities Humanitarian Action Network (JUHAN), Georgetown University, 4-6 June 2010 [info]Workshop: The Role of the Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council in the Development and Promotion of International Human Rights Norms, University of Leeds, 24 June 2010 [info]Tagged...
The UN Human Rights office and the Government of Guinea on 4 May in Geneva signed an agreement establishing OHCHRâs presence in the West-African country. The new country office will work to promote and protect human rights in Guinea. ......
EAC e-Learning Platform (European Asylum Curriculum) [access]- Provides combination of online training modules and face-to-face sessions on a variety of asylum topics. See upcoming courses.A Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming: Practical Information and Training Materials (UNFPA and Harvard School of Public Health) [access]- This manual "provides step-by-step guidance on how to apply a culturally sensitive, gender-responsive, human rights-based approach to programming in each of UNFPA’s three core areas of work: population and development, reproductive health, and gender. It also covers how to apply such an approach in the context of a humanitarian emergency."Learning Platform (IFRC) [access]- This service provides "free Red Cross and Red Crescent interactive online courses,...
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