The Global Database on the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement was recently launched by the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement and the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM). Its aim is to facilitate the development of national legal and policy frameworks on internal displacement by providing "instant access to official documents, including...
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 Perm business advocacy coalition in Russia recognizes that with high demand for bribes, entrepreneurs are often willing suppliers. For individual entrepreneurs paying bribes is usually more cost effective than defending oneself against corrupt bureaucrats through a weak legal system. Therefore, the coalition decided to summon the powers of collective action to utilize norms and legal precedents in the fight for business rights.
Member of the coalition - associations and chambers of commerce - decided to support an entrepreneur whose rights had been violated when city officials fined him for selling goods without a license. Those officials who attempted to fine him were not tax inspectors and exceeded their duties according to the law. Furthermore, the law clearly stated that in this...
Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 22, no. 2 (May 2007) [full-text]
- Mix of articles.
Forced Migration Review, no. 28 (July 2007) [full-text]
- Focus is on Southern capacity-building. Also includes a range of articles on other topics.
Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 21, no. 3 (Spring 2007) [contents]
- Includes articles on human trafficking, African refugee resettlement...
You know something extraordinary is going on when The Wall Street Journal and Doctors Without Borders agree on anything. But lately, both the fervent champion of free markets and the equally impassioned humanitarian organization have come out blazing against...