Assessment Report of IDPs Residing in District D.I. Khan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (Save the Children, April 2010) [text via Human Security Gateway]Fragile States: Beyond Quick Wins (ODI, May 2010) [text]Kuwait: Still Stalling on Statelessness (Refugees International, May 2010) [text]The Leahy-Levin Refugee Protection Act of 2010: Sectional Analysis (ImmigrationProf Blog, May 2010) [access]- Note: Text is in Microsoft Word format.Lives of Survival Migrants and Refugees in South Africa (MSF, May 2010) [text]- Note: Text is in Microsoft Word format.Protecting Trafficked Persons in the Americas: A Refugee Law Perspective (UNHCR, May 2010) [English text] [Spanish text]Tagged Publications....
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Ongoing:Refugee Law Reader [access]- This "on-line model curriculum for the study of the complex and rapidly evolving field of international asylum and refugee law" is now available in French, Russian and Spanish.Upcoming:"Renewing U.S. Commitment to Refugee Protection: The 30th Anniversary of the Refugee Act of 1980," Human Rights First & Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, 16 March 2010 [info]- Symposium with the High Commissioner for Refugees as a special guest.39th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi, 24-25 April 2010 [info]- One of the conference themes will be "Forced Migration: Emerging Global Legal & Policy Issues." Submit paper proposal by 15 April 2010."The European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights...
Chance or choice? Understanding why asylum seekers come to the UK (Refugee Council, Jan. 2010) [text]Incorporating the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into Domestic Law: Issues and Challenges (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Jan. 2010) [text]Key statistics about asylum seeker applications in the UK (ICAR, Dec. 2009) [text]Refugee credibility assessment and the...
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The Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 (Refugee Council, Sept. 2009) [text]DR Congo: Protect Civilians & End Military Operations (Refugees International, Sept. 2009) [text]Out of the margins - Securing a voice for internally displaced people: lessons from Georgia (Conciliation Resources, 2009) [text]"Reconstructing the Responsibility to Protect in the Wake of Cyclones and Separatism,"...
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Be a Better Donor: Practical Recommendations for Humanitarian Aid (PAHO, July 2009) [text via ReliefWeb]Cash Transfers in Emergencies: A Synthesis of World Vision's Experience and Learning (HPG, August 2009) [text]Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Human Displacement: A UNHCR Perspective (UNHCR, August 2009) [text]- Update of the October 2008 paper.Philippines: Shattered lives, beyond the...
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East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights, vol. 14, no. 2 (2008) [contents]- Includes an article on the Uganda Refugees Act and one on gender and forced migration.Global Responsibility to Protect, vol. 1, no. 2 (March 2009) [contents]- Articles focus on humanitarian crises.Human Rights Brief, vol. 16, no. 4 (Spring 2009 special ed.) [full-text]- Reproduces presentations from the International...
Development assistance and refugees: Towards a North-South grand bargain?, Forced Migration Policy Briefing 2 (Refugee Studies Centre, June 2009) [text]Kosovo: Poisoned by Lead: A Health and Human Rights Crisis in Mitrovica’s Roma Camps (HRW, June 2009) [text]Our World. Views from the Field. Opinion Survey, Part 1: The Impact of Armed Conflict (ICRC, June 2009) [access]Protecting Refugees,...
Convention Relative au Statut des Réfugiés ; Protocole Relative au Statut Des Réfugiés (UN Audiovisual Library of International Law, April 2009) [French text]- "The French version of the introductory note by Mr. Goodwin-Gill to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951, and the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees, 1967, was added to the Historic Archives section of the...
A reader of this blog posed a question as a comment on an older post relating to environmental refugees. Rather than have it get lost in the shuffle, I thought I'd build a post around it.
"Has anyone come across research linking national asylum policies to the often misconceived perception of environmental refugees in international politics?"
For context, I've listed a few articles below that...
i.lex: The Legal Research System for International Law in U.S. Courts (American Society of International Law)
- Described as an "online database of select U.S. court cases and related materials...designed to serve as a practical resource for members of the judiciary and other legal professionals to identify and understand how international law is interpreted and applied by U.S. courts at both...
Congress and U.S. Policy on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees: Recent Legislation and Implementation (U.S. Congressional Research Service, Oct. 2008) [text via Human Security Gateway]
Data and Research on Human Trafficking: Bibliography of Research-Based Literature (Institute for the Study of International Migration, Oct. 2008) [text]
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