New Blogs and Web Sites

New(ish):

African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Observatory on Migration [site]
- "Its goal is to establish a network of research institutions and governmental entities dealing with migration in the six regions of the ACP Group of States, namely West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific." Forced migration and migration and climate change are two of its proposed research themes.

Conflict and Development: Overcoming Conflict and Fragility [site]
- A blog "hosted by the team working on the World Bank’s upcoming World Development Report 2011 'Conflict, Security, and Development'."

Human Rights Brief [site]
- Online companion to the print version of the periodical. Search on "asylum" for relevant commentary.

Peace Starts Here [site]
- An UNRWA initiative to raise awareness about the lives of Palestinian refugees.

Refugee Education Initiative [site]
- A new "online forum linking like-minded people from around the world to discuss issues of forced migration, displacement, education and conflict." Includes a blog and links to resources.

Refugee Space Project [site]
- Serves as a place "to connect refugees among themselves first of all, and then with other non-refugee people (friends of refugees) so that they can reason about the life of these people of concern and share their stories, ideas and ideals to raise public awareness about the reality of life they are leading in the world."

Refugees into Teachers [site]
- Aim of the site is to "provide free information, advice and guidance to refugees in the UK who wish to become qualified teachers or work in other support staff roles in UK state primary or secondary schools."

Revamped:

Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) [site]
- New look and URL (http://crs.yorku.ca). Happily, it now offers an RSS feed.

Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) [site]
- Another site with a new look and better organization, but no RSS (although you can sign up for email updates).

[Picture credit: UNRWA]

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