Thematic Focus: General

Short pieces:

Five trailblazing women win UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Awards for their life-changing work (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related media page. The awards ceremony will be held in Geneva on 14 October 2024.

Innovating to support refugees’ mental health (UNHCR Innovation Service, Oct. 2024) [text]

"UN agencies urge Security Council to stop ‘mass graves for migrants’," UN News, 30 Sept. 2024 [text]

Reports:

Funding landscape for research on health, migration and displacement: report for 2016-2020 period (World Health Organization, Oct. 2024) [text]

HLP and protection: from emergency to solutions (Norwegian Refugee Council, Oct. 2024) [text]

Human rights of internally displaced persons: Note by the Secretary-General, UN Doc. No. A/79/334 (UN General Assembly, Sept 2024) [access]

- Transmission of the "Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur."

Measuring Irregular Migration (MIrreM) Project [access]

- A number of papers were published in Oct. 2024; see also two related databases, one on Irregular Migration Flow Estimates and Indicators and the other on Irregular Migration Stock Estimates.

Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Note by the Secretary-General, UN Doc. No. A/79/160 (UN General Assembly, July 2024) [access via Univ. of Oxford]

- Transmission of the "Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay: Mobile Indigenous Peoples."

Journal articles:

"Coups and refugee flows in autocracies and democracies," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 4 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"From Forced Migration to Displacement?," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 11 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"Immigration bureaucracies and state-created categories across the globe," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latest Articles, 9 Oct. 2024 [open access]

- See also earlier related article.

"Social Assistance and Forced Displacement: A New Solution to an Old Problem?," Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, vol. 40, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

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- Thematic Focus: General (2 Oct. 2024)