Conflict-induced migration and remittances: exploring conceptual frameworks, RSC Working Paper, no.47 (RSC, August 2008) [text] Review of the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report (The Protection Project, Summer 2008) [text] Seeing People Through the Trees: Scaling Up Efforts to Advance Rights and Address Poverty,...
Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 2007 (Home Office, August 2008) [text]
Forced Evictions and the Right to Housing of Roma in Russia (Intl. Fed. for Human Rights, July 2008) [text via Refworld]
The Looming Crisis: Displacement and Security in Iraq (Brookings Institution, August 2008) [text]
Manuel pour la protection des déplacés internes (IASC, 2008; English version issued earlier) [text via...
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Barbour, Brian and Brian Gorlick, Embracing the 'responsibility to protect': a repertoire of measures including asylum for potential victims, New Issues in Refugee Research paper no. 159 (UNHCR, July 2008) [text]
Black, Richard et al., Demographics and Climate Change: Future Trends and Their Policy Implications for Migration, DRC Working Paper no. T-27 (Development Research Centre on Migration,...
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New Issues:
Development in Practice, vol. 18, nos. 4&5 (August 2008) [contents]
- Focus is on participatory research and gender analysis; includes a literature review.
Humanitarian Exchange Magazine, no. 39 [full-text]
- Features articles on the humanitarian response in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Migrations & Identities, vol. 1, no. 1 (2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles.
Calls...
Health and Human Rights, vol. 10, no. 1 (2008) [full-text]
- First issue in the newly-adopted open access format. Includes an article on promoting greater access to biomedical literature to meet the needs of people around the world who cannot afford the subscription costs generally associated with health and medical journals.
International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 20, no. 2 (June 2008)...
Today is World Refugee Day. The following sites provide examples of some of the many activities organized around the world to mark the day and to honor the courage of refugees and other displaced populations in the face of adversity.
ACNUR [access]
African Union [access]
Amnesty International USA [access]
Asylkoordination [access]
CEAR [access]
ECRE [access]
Forum réfugiés [access]...
2007 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons (UNHCR, June 2008) [text]
The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: Annotations, 2nd ed. (ASIL and Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, 2008) [access]
Policy Plan on Asylum: An Integrated Approach to Protection across the EU (Commission of the European Communities, June 2008)...
World Refugee Day (WRD) is commemorated annually on June 20th. This year's theme is protection. For more information about World Refugee Day generally, visit UNHCR's special events web page. And here is more information about how UNHCR is using social media to get the word out about this year's WRD.
The UK and Australia each play host to week-long activities that culminate on World Refugee...
"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:...
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UNHCR EXCOM Conclusions
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...
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Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq - Update (IDP Working Group, March 2008) [text via Refworld] [text via ReliefWeb]
The Rise and Fall of Asylum: What Happened and Why?, Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper, no. 577 (Australian National University, March 2008) [text]
Sharing Responsibility for Refugee Protection in Europe: Dublin Reconsidered (ECRE, March 2008) [access]
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Five Years Later, A Hidden Crisis: Report of the IRC Commission on Iraqi Refugees (International Rescue Commission, March 2008) [text]
How is the Term "Armed Conflict" Defined in International Humanitarian Law? (ICRC, March 2008) [text via Refworld]
Independent Asylum Commission Report: Executive Summary (The Independent, March 2008) [text]
Iraq: No Let-Up in the Humanitarian Crisis (ICRC,...
Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries, 2007: Statistical Overview of Asylum Applications Lodged in Europe and Selected Non-European Countries (UNHCR, March 2008) [text]
ECRE 2008 Iraq Survey (ECRE, March 2008) [text]
Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation: An Interagency Statement (WHO, Feb. 2008) [text]
Local experiences of migration: Consulting Coventry (ICAR, Feb. 2008)...
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statistical data,
protection
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) just launched the online World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples. Now it has released the 2008 edition of the State of the World's Minorities. The volume can be downloaded in its entirety or by chapter. Contents include thematic articles such as "climate change and minorities" and regional sections with an initial introduction to relevant...
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched the Handbook for the Protection of Women and Girls yesterday in commemoration of International Women's Day. The last UNHCR protection guidelines relating to women were issued in 1991. Chapters in the new handbook cover gender equality, addressing risks faced by women and girls, UNHCR's protection strategy, women's human rights, and the...
Angering Akujů: Survival and Suffering in Karamoja (Feinstein International Center, Dec. 2007) [text]
- Focuses on livelihoods and human security in the Karamoja Region of Uganda.
Country Information in Asylum Procedures: Quality as a Legal Requirement in the EU (Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Dec. 2007) [text]
Handbook for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons (IASC, Dec. 2007) [text...
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22nd ALNAP Biannual Meeting, Papers [access]
- Papers are available in English and French. The theme of the meeting was "Compounding crises: combinations of vulnerabilities, risks and hazards in West Africa."
Angola: Former IDPs share the common challenge of recovery and reconstruction (IDMC, Dec. 2007) [text via Refworld]
Between war and peace: Land and humanitarian action in Colombia, HPG...
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A Climate of Conflict: The Links between Climate Change, Peace and War (International Alert, Nov. 2007) [access]
Climate Change and Forced Migration: Observations, Projections and Implications (UNDP, Dec. 2007) [text via ReliefWeb]
Defending Refugees' Access to Protection in Europe (ECRE, Dec. 2007) [text via Refworld]
Links between Natural Disasters, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Risk...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has become the latest tropical rainforest rich, yet materially poor, nation to embrace payments for "avoided deforestation". The DRC joins Ecuador [more | more2] and Papua New Guinea (PNG) in making substantive offers to the international community to protect (note, not conserve or sustainabiy manage, but preserve intact) large areas of primary rainforests in exchange for payments which may include carbon market credits, development grants and/or debt relief.
A workable solution to tropical rainforest destruction and diminishment is within reach, and protecting the world's last large ancient primary forests is also a relatively easy way to dramatically and quickly cut back on carbon emissions (~25% of which are from land conversion including...
Challenges to Peace and Recovery in Darfur: A Situation Analysis of the Ongoing Conflict and its Continuing Impact on Livelihoods, Briefing Paper, by H. Young and A.M. Osman (FIC, Dec. 2006) [text]Educational responses to HIV and AIDS for refugees and internally displaced persons: Discussion paper for decision-makers (UNHCR and UNESCO, Jan. 2007) [text]The extraterritorialisation of asylum and the advent of "protection lite," DIIS Working Paper 2007/2, by T. Gammeltoft-Hansen (DIIS, Jan 2007) [text]Humanitarian protection in Uganda: a Trojan Horse?, HPG Background Paper, by C. Dolan and L. Hovil (ODI, Dec. 2006) [text]Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights of internally displaced persons, Walter Kälin, Human Rights Council doc. no. A/HRC/4/38 (Jan. 2007)...