Thematic Focus: General

Annual Report 2015 (Inspector General's Office, March 2016) [text]
- Note: The IGO investigates allegations of misconduct by UNHCR personnel.

Evaluation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Office of Internal Oversight Services, April 2016) [text]

"Explosive Remnants of War: A Deadly Threat to Refugees," Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction, vol. 20, no. 2 (2016) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 45.

Fact Sheet: Global Displacement (UNHCR, Aug. 2016) [text]

Monitoring Food Security in Countries with Conflict Situations: A Joint FAO/WFP Update for the United Nations Security Council (FAO & WFP, July 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

Nearly 1 in 100 Worldwide are now Displaced from Their Homes (Pew Research Center, Aug. 2016) [text]

A Record 65.3 Million People Were Displaced Last Year: What Does That Number Actually Mean? (The Conversation, July 2016) [text]

Update re. UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants (in chronological order):

Joint Statement on the Upcoming UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants (Human Rights Watch et al., 28 July 2016) [text]

First UN Summit on Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants: Focus on Shared Challenges (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 1 Aug. 2016) [text via ReliefWeb]

"U.N. Deadlocked Over Draft Agreement on Refugees and Migrants," New York Times, 1 Aug. 2016 [text]

"U.N. Drafts Agreement on Refugees and Migrants," New York Times, 2 Aug. 2016 [text]

CMS and SIMN Statement on the Outcome Document for UN Summit on Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants (Center for Migration Studies & the Scalabrini International Migration Network, 3 Aug. 2016) [text]

"UN Members Reject Concrete Refugee Resettlement Target," The Guardian, 3 Aug. 2016 [text]

UN Refugee Summit Talks End in Abject Failure (Amnesty International, 3 Aug. 2016) [text]

Central and North American States Vow Concerted Action on Refugees Ahead of September UN Summits (UNHCR, 4 Aug. 2016) [text]

UNHCR Welcomes Historic Commitment by States to More Equitable and Predictable Responses to Refugees (UNHCR, 4 Aug. 2016) [text]

IOM Supports Arab League Preparations for UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants (IOM, 5 Aug. 2016) [text]

IOM Welcomes UN Member State Consensus Ahead of Summit on Refugees and Migrants (IOM, 5 Aug. 2016) [text]

Minor Miracle or Historic Failure? Assessing the UN’s Refugee Summit (Kaldor Centre, 5 Aug. 2016) [text]

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: General (28 July 2016)
- News: UN Summit for Refugees & Migrants (19 July 2016)

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