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New Issues of Conflict & Health, ICRC Rev., JHA, JPR, Women’s Asylum News via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog October 29th, 2008 at 13:03

Conflict and Health (23 Oct. 2008) [open access full-text] - New article on reproductive health for refugees in Guinea. International Review of the Red Cross, vol. 90, no. 870 (June 2008) [full-text] - Focus is on "Sanctions." Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (25 Oct. 2008) [open access full-text] - New article entitled "Humanitarian Action on the Battlefields of the Global War on Terror."...

Publications: Climate Change, EXCOM Conclusions, Forced Evictions/Africa, IDPs, Peacebuilding, Protection/Europe, Returnees/Angola via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog September 17th, 2008 at 17:27

Access to Protection at Airports in Europe (Hungarian Helsinki Committee, 2008) [text] Evaluation of UNHCR’s returnee reintegration programme in Angola (UNHCR, August 2008) [text] Forced Evictions and Disability Rights in Africa (GlobaLex, Sept. 2008) [text] Humanitarian Implications of Climate Change: Mapping Emerging Trends and Risk Hotspots (CARE, August 2008) [text via ReliefWeb]...

Addendum to New Issues: JRS via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog August 22nd, 2008 at 12:59

The latest issue of the Journal of Refugee Studies is now available: vol. 21, no. 3 (September 2008). Articles focus on displacement resulting from the Iraq war, refugee returns, integration, linking asylum seekers and host communities, predicting forced migration, peace education, and refugee business. Nine book reviews are also included. Posted in...

Annual Reports: Conflicts, Disaster Statistics, Peace Efforts, UNICEF via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog July 6th, 2008 at 15:02

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...

Publications: Asylum Seekers/Australia, Child Sexual Exploitation, Civilian Prot., DR/Statelessness, EXCOM Concl., Forced Marriage, Peace Rankings via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog May 29th, 2008 at 13:40

"Community-based Asylum Seekers' Use of Primary Health Care Services in Melbourne," eMJA, vol 188, no. 6 (2008): 344-348 [text] Dominican Republic: Time to Move Forward to Resolve Statelessness (Refugees International, May 2008) [text] Forced Marriage with the LRA, Uganda (Feinstein International Center, May 2008) [text] Global Peace Index 2008 [Vision of Humanity, access] No One to Turn To:...

Publications: Extradition, Guantanamo, Information, Kenya, Humanitarian Networks, Natural Disasters, Peace Processes via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog May 8th, 2008 at 14:34

Anuario 2008 de procesos de paz (Escola de cultura de pau, April 2008) [Spanish text] Crisis in Kenya: Land, Displacement and the Search for "Durable Solutions," HPG Policy Brief, no. 31 (ODI, April 2008) [text] Global Symposium +5 on Information for Humanitarian Action: Final Report (OCHA, May 2008) [text] Guantánamo's Refugees: Trapped by Inaction (Center for Constitutional Rights, Feb....

Pubs: Asylum Policy/Greece, Bhutanese Refugee Children, Detention/Turkey, North Korean Children/China, Peace Processes, Protection, Youth/Sierra Leone via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog April 15th, 2008 at 17:45

Anuario 2008 de procesos de paz (Escola de cultura de paz, April 2008) [Spanish text] Country at a Crossroads: Challenges Facing Young People in Sierra Leone (Women's Commission, April 2008) [text] Denied Status, Denied Education: Children of North Korean Women in China (Human Rights Watch, April 2008) [text via Refworld] A Gamble with the Right to Asylum in Europe: Greek Asylum Policy and...

Alert 2008 via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog April 9th, 2008 at 15:51

Alert 2008! Report on conflicts, human rights and peacebuilding is produced annually by the School for a Culture of Peace at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The report analyzes trends and developments in such areas as armed conflicts, peace processes, humanitarian crises, human rights, and the gender aspects of peacebuilding. Currently, the Spanish-language edition is available. The...

Periodicals: AWR, Conflict & Health, Conflict Trends, Dev. in Practice, IJMHSC, JEMS, JPR, Torture via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog January 22nd, 2008 at 13:30

AWR Bulletin, no. 3/2007 [contents - scroll down] - Mix of articles with several focusing on asylum in the EU. Conflict and Health (Dec. 2007) [full-text] - Three new articles in Dec. 2007. Conflict Trends, no. 3/2007 [full-text] - Theme is "Peace Agreements." Development in Practice, vol. 18, no. 1 (2008) [contents] - Mix of articles. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social...

February Conference Deadlines via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog January 19th, 2008 at 14:00

The First World Conference of Humanitarian Studies is not slated to take place until 4-8 February 2009. However, the deadline for panel submissions is 1 February 2008. (The deadline for paper abstracts is 1 September 2008.) Meeting participants will, among other objectives, "take stock of the current theory, debates, and issues of humanitarian studies." The International Peace Research...

Newsletters: COI, Conflict, Human Trafficking, Humanitarian Assistance, Peace via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog January 8th, 2008 at 16:30

Global Eye on Trafficking, no. 1 (Dec. 2007) [text] - From IOM. Monthly Newsletter, no. 22 (Dec. 2007) [text] - From the Programme on Conflict and Peacebuilding at the School for a Culture of Peace. PeaceWatch, vol. 13, no. 4 (Dec. 2007) [text] - From the U.S. Institute of Peace. The Researcher, no. 8 (Dec. 2007) [text] - Published by the Refugee Documentation Centre, Ireland. VOICE Out...

IDP Event/Reports via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog December 6th, 2007 at 14:50

A USIP event scheduled for December 14 will focus on "Addressing Internally Displaced Persons in a Peace Process." The speaker will be Khalid Koser of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, which recently published a report entitled "Addressing Internal Displacement in Peace Processes, Peace Agreements and Peace-Building" (Sept. 2007). The linkage between internal displacement and...

Archival Collections: Human Rights, Peace Studies, Refugees via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog November 15th, 2007 at 14:16

The Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research (CHRDR) at Columbia University formally opened its human rights archives to the public in early October. It serves as the official repository for Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other human rights organizations. Learn more about the human rights archive collection. The Plowshares Digital Archive for Peace Studies is a...

New Pubs. on EXCOM, Human Rights/Iraq, Integration, Palestinian Refugees/Lebanon, Peace Efforts, Reconstruction via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog October 18th, 2007 at 15:20

Addressing Internal Displacement in Peace Processes, Peace Agreements and Peace-Building (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Sept. 2007) [text] Developing Media in Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations (USIP, Oct. 2007) [text] Exiled and Suffering: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon (Amnesty International, Oct. 2007) [text] Human Rights Report, 1 April to 30 June 2007 (UN...

New Pubs. on Asylum/EU, Conflict Costs/Africa, Early Warning, Iraqis/EU, Livelihoods/Darfur, Peace Agreements, Refugees, Statistics via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog October 12th, 2007 at 14:30

Accountability and Peace Agreements: Mapping Trends from 1980 to 2006 (Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Sept. 2007) [text via ReliefWeb] Africa’s missing billions: International arms flows and the cost of conflict (Oxfam, Oct. 2007) [text] "Asylum applications in the European Union," Statistics in Focus 110/2007 (Eurostat, Sept. 2007) [text] Fortress Europe and the Iraqi ‘intruders’: Iraqi...

New Pubs. on Asylum-Seekers/Malta, Evaluations, Expulsion/Russia, Famine Relief/Zimbabwe, Health, HIV/AIDS, IDPs, Iraqis, Peace Efforts, Women via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog October 3rd, 2007 at 14:27

Access to health care and human rights of asylum seekers in Malta: Experiences, results and recommendations (Médecins du Monde, 2007) [text] Fighting HIV/AIDS together with refugees and internally displaced populations: Summary of 2006 UNHCR Missions (UNHCR, Sept. 2007) [text] Impact Assessment of the Gokwe Integrated Recovery Action Project Zimbabwe (Feinstein International Center, August...

New Pubs. on Asylum Decisions/U.S., Children in Armed Conflict, Good Governance/Africa, IDPs/Sri Lanka & Uganda, Post-Conflict Reconstruction via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog September 26th, 2007 at 15:00

Asylum Disparities Persist, Regardless of Court Location and Nationality (TRAC, Sept. 2007) [text] The building blocks of sustainable peace: The views of internally displaced people in Northern Uganda, Oxfam Briefing Paper 106 (Sept. 2007) [text] Civilians in the way of conflict: Displaced people in Sri Lanka (IDMC, Sept. 2007) [text]Getting the Policies Right: The Prioritization and Sequencing...

New Pubs.: Education, Human Trafficking, Indonesia, Peace, Return, Standing Comm., Zambia via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog September 24th, 2007 at 15:23

Asylum from Trafficking: A Failure of Protection, Immigration Briefings (July 2007, posted by DocuTicker, Sept. 2007) [text] Country of Return Information (CRI) Project, Country Sheets (Aug. 2007) [access] - See the Project web site for more info. Documents from the 19-20 September 2007 Standing Committee Meeting (UNHCR, Sept. 2007) [access] Dynamics of Conflict and Displacement in Papua,...

Peace Publications via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog September 21st, 2007 at 16:38

Following up on my post yesterday about measuring peace trends, some of the data cited in the CDH report came from the School for a Culture of Peace in Barcelona. The specific source referenced is the 2007 Peace Process Yearbook (available in English and Spanish). Other information resources the School makes available include: - Semáforo, fortnightly news service; - Monthly newsletter; -...

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 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...

New Pubs.: Burma, Human Trafficking, Kenya, Kosovo, Peace, Refugee Law, Remittances via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog June 6th, 2007 at 14:59

Forced Migration/Internal Displacement in Burma: With an Emphasis on Goverment-Controlled Areas (IDMC, May 2007) [text] Global Peace Index [access] No Forcible Return of Minorities to Kosovo (Amnesty International, May 2007) [text] Nowhere to go: Forced Evictions in Mau Forest [Kenya] (Amnesty International, May 2007) [text] Remittances during Crises: Implications for Humanitarian Response,...

New Periodical Issues: AWR, CS&D, Dev. in Pract., GILJ, Global-e, HRQ, ICRC Rev., JPR, Voice via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog June 4th, 2007 at 15:00

AWR Bulletin, vol. 45, no. 1 (2007) [contents] - Mix of articles, including one on refugee protection and human rights. Conflict, Security and Development, vol. 7, no. 2 (2007) [contents] - Mix of articles. Development in Practice, vol. 17, no. 3 (2007) [contents] - Mix of articles. Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 21, no. 2 (Winter 2007) [contents] - Mix of articles. Global-e: A...

New Publications: Asylum in the Media, Detention, IDPs, Mental Health, North Korea, Peacekeeping, Women via Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog March 12th, 2007 at 14:21

IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (IASC, Feb. 2007) [text]Locking Up Family Values: The Detention of Immigrant Families (LIRS and Women's Commission, Feb. 2007) [text]North Korea: Harsher Policies against Border-Crossers (Human Rights Watch, March 2007) [text]The Protection of Internally Displaced Persons and the Role of UNHCR, Informal Consultative Meeting (UNHCR, Feb. 2007) [text]Reporting asylum: The UK Press and the Effectiveness of PCC Guidelines (ICAR, Jan. 2007) [text]United Nations Peace Operations Year in Review 2006 (UN, 2007) [text]Women and Conflict: An Introductory Guide to Programming (USAID, Dec. 2006) [text]Posted in...