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Publications: Child Health Care/Emergencies, EXCOM Report, Hum. Action & Older Persons, Migrant Women/Jordan, OECD Factbook via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog October 30th, 2008 at 17:25

Humanitarian Action and Older Persons: An Essential Brief for Humanitarian Actors (IASC, Oct. 2008) [text via ReliefWeb] Isolated, Exploited, Abused: Jordan's women migrant domestic workers (Amnesty International, Oct. 2008) [access] Manual for the Health Care of Children in Humanitarian Emergencies(WHO, Oct. 2008) [text] OECD Factbook 2008: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics...

New UNHCR Publications & Pages via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog August 27th, 2008 at 12:30

Publications: Reports and Documents for the 59th Executive Committee Plenary Session (August 2008) [access] - The actual meetings are scheduled for 6-10 October 2008. Selected Documents Relating to National Security and Counter-Terrorism Relevant to International Refugee Protection (UNHCR, July 2008) [text] UNHCR Recommendations for the Ministerial Conference of the Euro-African Process on...

Publications: Iraq, Mental Health, Refugee Abuse, Refugee Protection/Gulf of Aden, Trafficked Women & Asylum, Urban IDPs via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog July 30th, 2008 at 19:30

Good Intentions: A Review of the New Asylum Model and its Impact on Trafficked Women Claiming Asylum (POPPY Project and Refugee Women's Resource Project, June 2008) [text] Iraq Displacement and Return - 2008 Mid-Year Review (IOM, June 2008) [text] Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings: Checklist for Field Use (IASC, June 2008) [access via ReliefWeb] Outsourcing abuse:...

Publications: Alcohol Use, Climate Change, HIV, Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance, Refugee Protection via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog May 2nd, 2008 at 16:36

ALNAP's 7th Review of Humanitarian Action (ALNAP, March 2008) [access] Beyond the Nexus: UNHCR's Evolving Perspective on Refugee Protection and International Migration, New Issues in Refugee Research no. 155 (UNHCR, April 2008) [text] Future Floods of Refugees: A Comment on Climate Change, Conflict and Forced Migration (Norwegian Refugee Council, April 2008) [text] HIV and the UK Asylum...

Measuring Trends in Peace, Conflict and Refugee Protection via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog September 20th, 2007 at 14:35

The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue recently published Charting the Roads to Peace: Facts, Figures and Trends in Conflict Resolution (Sept. 2007), which provides a statistical overview of global peace developments. As the introduction notes, this reflects a growing movement in the use of quantitative data to analyze and interpret trends in conflicts and peace processes. Mirroring this trend,...

New Publications/Event relating to Displacement in Iraq via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog September 5th, 2007 at 21:30

"Escape into insecurity: Iraqi refugees find a precarious home in Jordan," National Catholic Reporter (3 August 2007) [text] The Ongoing Plight of Iraqi Refugees, 10 September 2007 [info.] - This panel will be hosted by the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC. The speakers are scheduled to discuss their recent mission to the Middle East "to observe the plight of refugees fleeing the...

New Pubs.: Children, Human Trafficking, Iraq, Iraqis/Syria, Reproductive Health, Somalis/UK, Uganda via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog July 31st, 2007 at 12:15

Human Trafficking: A Strategic Framework Could Help Enhance the Interagency Collaboration Needed to Effectively Combat Trafficking Crimes (GAO, July 2007) [text; posted on beSpacific.com] Human Trafficking: Monitoring and Evaluation of International Projects Are Limited, but Experts Suggest Improvements (GAO, July 2007) [text; posted on beSpacific.com] Listening to Youth: The Experiences of...

Human Trafficking-Refugee Nexus via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog April 2nd, 2007 at 22:32

A proposal was put forth at a recent Informal Consultative Meeting of the Standing Committee for an "Executive Committee Conclusion on the Protection of Victims of Trafficking Seeking Asylum." Several perspectives on the intersection between human trafficking and refugee/asylum issues are represented in the literature. The following examples highlight some of these viewpoints: Morrison, J.,...