Focus on Asia, North Korean Refugees

Asia (Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka):

Afghanistan: A Case Study - Strengthening Principled Humanitarian Response Capacities (ODI, Jan. 2012) [text]

A Commentary on the December 2011 Sri Lanka Operational Guidance Note (Still Human, Still Here, March 2012) [text]

Roadmap for the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) in Asia: Personalities, Institutions and Processes, NTS Perspectives, no. 8 (Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, Feb. 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Untold Miseries": Wartime Abuses and Forced Displacement in Burma's Kachin State (Human Rights Watch, March 2012) [text]

North Korean refugees:

China: Divided over North Korean Refugees (International Relations and Security Network, March 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

China's Repatriation of North Korean Refugees (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, March 2012) [text]

"North Korean Refugee Health in South Korea (NORNS) Study: Study Design and Methods,"BMC Public Health, 12:172 (8 March 2012) [open access]

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/19/65 (UN General Assembly, Feb. 2012) [text via Refworld]
- See section H, "Protection of Asylum Seekers."

Securitization of Human Rights: North Korean Refugees in East Asia (Praeger, Feb. 2012) [preview]

The Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Human Rights Council, March 2012) [text via Refworld]
- Discusses the increase in asylum-seekers in South Korea.

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