Just a reminder that abstracts for the Refugee Studies Centre's upcoming conference on "Understanding Global Refugee Policy" are due 1 July 2012! Here is the call for papers. Abstracts can be submitted online via the link at the bottom of conference announcement page.
UNHCR launched the report, "Climate Change, Vulnerability and Human Mobility: Perspectives of Refugees from the East and Horn of Africa" (UNHCR & UNU-EHS, June 2012), at the recent Rio+20 conference. For more information, view the video report and read the related press release and news story.
Integrated Monitoring: A Practical Manual for Organisations That Want to Achieve Results (inProgress, 2012) [text]
Berghof Glossary on Conflict Transformation: 20 Notions for Theory and Practice (Berghof Foundation, 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]
Humanitarian Medicine (Crash/Fondation Médecins Sans Frontières, May 2012) [text]
A new book entitled UNHCR and International Refugee Law: From Treaties to Innovation, by Corinne Lewis, has just been published by Routledge. Here's the description:This book considers the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ contribution to international refugee law since the establishment of UNHCR by the United Nations General Assembly in 1951. The book explores the historical and statutory foundations that create an indelible link between UNHCR and international refugee law. This book charts the significant evolution that has occurred in the organisation’s role throughout the last sixty years, looking at both the formal means by which UNHCR’s mandate may be modified, and the techniques UNHCR has used to facilitate the changes in its role, thereby revealing a significant evolution in the organisation’s role since the onset of the crisis in refugee protection in the 1980’s. UNHCR, itself, has demonstrated its organizational autonomy as the primary agent for the adaptation of its responsibilities and work related to international refugee law. The author does suggest however that UNHCR needs to continue to extend and strengthen its role related to international refugee law if UNHCR is to ensure a stronger legal framework for the protection of refugees as well as a fuller respect for refugees’ rights in practice.
Annual Report 2011 (Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network, June 2012) [text]
From Shelter to Housing: Security of Tenure and Integration in Protracted Displacement Settings (Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 2011; posted May 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]
Disasters, vol. 36, issue suppl. 1 (July 2012) [contents]
Exiled to Nowhere: Burma's Rohingya (Nowhere People) [access]
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Asylum under Threat: Assessing the Protection of Somali Refugees in Dadaab Refugee Camps and along the Migration Corridor (Danish Refugee Council, June 2012) [text]
The Arab Spring and Beyond: Summary of Recent Workshop (RSC, June 2012) [access]
Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Contemporary Germany: A Critical Analysis of Political Debates and Media Depictions, Honors Thesis Project (Univ. of Tennessee, May 2012) [text]
The U.S. State Department launched its Trafficking in Persons Report for 2012 yesterday. Access to the text is available here; more information about the report is provided in this briefing.
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Environmental Migration Newsletter, no. 1 (Spring 2012) [text via UK Climate Change & Migration Coalition]
UNHCR's "main annual report on the state of forced displacement" was released today. Its findings show that 2011 has been a "record year for forced displacement across borders, with more people becoming refugees than at any time since 2000." For access to a presentation summarizing the report, the complete text, and annexes (Excel tables), visit the Global Trends 2011 page.
We're entering the period leading up to World Refugee Day on 20 June 2012. For information on country-wide events in Australia and the UK, visit:
Upcoming event: 
Global Report 2011 (UNHCR, June 2012) [access]
"Caught in the Borderlands: Torture Experienced, Expressed, and Remembered by Eritrean Asylum Seekers in Israel," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 2, no. 1 (June 2012) [full-text]
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) released a new report today; Internal Displacement in Africa: A Development Challenge "highlights how internal displacement is not just an humanitarian, human rights or peace-building challenge, but also a development one."
Deepening Participation and Improving Aid Effectiveness through Media and ICTs: A Practical Manual Translating Lessons Learned into Daily Practice (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2011) [text]
The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) was officially launched today. Its aim is to promote legal and policy development, raise awareness, and support capacity building initiatives. The web site provides access to information about its activities, the full-text of a variety of resources (reports, policy briefs, etc.), the ENS blog, and Twitter feed. Interested parties can sign up for a newsletter, but it would also be great if the site could implement an RSS feed! For more information about this new network, read this related blog post.
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