Forced Migration Newsfeeds

Increasingly, forced migration-related sites are syndicating their content for delivery through RSS and Atom web feeds. If you have a newsreader and would like to add feeds that focus on refugees, forced migration, IDPs, humanitarian assistance, or human rights, then here is a partial listing of relevant sites.

- Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog (i.e., *this* site!) includes an Atom feed with headlines of each new post. Copy the site feed shortcut from the sidebar under the "Links" heading.

- The Forced Migration Discussion List is hosted by JISCMail, but since they currently do not offer RSS feeds, FMO created one for the list.

- Human Rights Watch (HRW) has numerous newsfeeds available for its latest news, regions, individual countries, or themes (including "refugees" and "refugee and IDP women/gender-based asylum claims").

- The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) provides one feed that includes bi-weekly news and information about their reports, profiles and other activities.

- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provides a newsfeed along with a nice introduction to RSS and newsreaders.

- IRIN News offers feeds for individual countries, regions, and themes, or for their Africa, Asia, Iraq, HIV/AIDS, or French-language news services. Look for these at the bottom of the home page, left corner.

- OUP Journals: Subscribe to a newsfeed for the contents of current or recent issues of the International Journal of Refugee Law, the Journal of Refugee Studies, and the Refugee Survey Quarterly.

- Pambazuka News is a weekly newsletter that focuses on social justice issues in Africa. Users have multiple newsfeed options: They can subscribe to a single feed for the complete issue of Pambazuka or to various category-specific feeds, including "conflict and emergencies" and "refugees and forced migration."

- ReliefWeb has separate feeds for its headlines (latest updates), situation reports, training, vacancies, maps, and news on individual countries.

- UNHCR offers a newsfeed, but it doesn't appear to be fully operational as of this writing. Keep checking the bottom left corner of the home page.

If you *don't* have a newsreader, then take advantage of Forced Migration Online's newsfeeds. The right-hand column of the home page displays headlines from the forced migration discussion list, UNHCR's refugee news, IDMC's IDP news, ReliefWeb's humanitarian news, and this blog - a quick, easy, and technology-free way to keep up with the latest developments!

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