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23 December 2008

Happy Holidays

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This is my last post for the next week or so. I'll sign in again in 2009. Best wishes for the holiday season.

Publications: Civilians/Sri Lanka, Forced Migration/Uganda, Humanit. Top 10, Iraqi Refugees, Minorities/Iraq, Protection/Darfur, Unacc. Minors/Greece

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Besieged, Displaced, Detained: The Plight of Civilians in Sri Lanka’s Vanni Region (HRW, Dec. 2008) [ text ] Challenging Choices: Protection...

Upcoming Events: January & February 2009

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8th International Association of Refugee Law Judges World Conference, 28-30 January 2009, Cape Town [ draft programme ] - Theme is "Whe...

Iraq Resources

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Coming Home: The Challenge of Return for Iraq’s Displaced, USIP, 19 Dec. 2008 [ info. ] - Past event; watch for transcript and/or podcast. ...
22 December 2008

Publications: African Migration, Asylum Policy/EU, Detention, Displaced Children/Education, Rohingya, Western Sahara

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Amnesty International's Recommendations to the Czech Presidency of the EU (Amnesty International, Dec. 2008) [ text ] Conflict, Disaster...
19 December 2008

CFP: Human Rights of People on the Move

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A call for papers has been issued by the Human Rights University Network-Sur and UNHCR for a special issue of Sur's International Jou...

Asylum and Environmental Refugees

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A reader of this blog posed a question as a comment on an older post relating to environmental refugees. Rather than have it get lost in t...
18 December 2008

Publications: Climate Change, EU Asylum, HIV Care/Kenya, UK Asylum, UK Border Controls

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Asylum Matters: Restoring Trust in the UK Asylum System (Centre for Social Justice, Dec. 2008) [ text ] Climate of Displacement, Climate for...
16 December 2008

New Issues of AJEM, CS&D, Disasters, E&RS, FMR, IJMHSC, JHA, REMI

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Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 23, no. 4 (Nov. 2008) [ full-text ] - Focus is on risk assessment. Conflict, Security and D...
13 December 2008

RSC Policy Briefings

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The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) has launched a new Policy Briefing series. The first title available is " Environmentally Displaced ...
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12 December 2008

Publications: Cyprus, Employment Policy/Disabled Persons, Family Reunification, Food Insecurity, Human Trafficking, Sexual Orientation, Somalia

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(updated) Family Reunification: A Right for Forced Migrants?, Working Paper no. 51 (RSC, Dec. 2008) [ text ] Legal Response to Human Traffic...
11 December 2008

Protracted Refugee Situations Meeting

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A UNHCR-sponsored two-day meeting of governmental and non-governmental representatives opened yesterday in Geneva. Here is the the High C...
09 December 2008

Legal Resources

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i.lex : The Legal Research System for International Law in U.S. Courts (American Society of International Law) - Described as an "onlin...
08 December 2008

Publications: Asylum/Ireland, Asylum/U.S., Borders/Europe, Darfur, Illegal Migration/Central & Eastern Europe, Iraqi Refugees

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2007 Yearbook on Illegal Migration, Human Smuggling and Trafficking in Central and Eastern Europe (ICMPD, 2008) [ abstract ] - Note: The 20...
04 December 2008

Research/Policy Papers: Bhutanese/Nepal, EU Refugee Protection, IDPs/Colombia, Returnees/Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, UNHCR in Kosovo

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New titles: Ibáñez, Ana María and Andrea Velásquez, Public Policies to Assist Internally Displaced Persons: The Role of Municipal Authoritie...
03 December 2008

Publications: Asylum/EU, Durable Solutions/IDPs, Elderly/Emergencies, Refugees/Australia, Women Asylum Seekers

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Durable Solutions for IDPs in Protracted Situations: Three Case Studies (Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Oct. 2008) [ text ...
02 December 2008

Expanded Refugee Law Reader

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The fifth edition of the Refugee Law Reader is now available. This resource is "designed to provide a full curriculum for a 48-hour c...

FMO's Open Access Repository

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The Forced Migration Online ( FMO ) team has just completed a project to migrate its full-text documents and journals collection to an op...
01 December 2008

Three Research Guides

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Here are three recent guides that are designed to help with different facets of the research process: Guide to Locating Migration Policies i...
29 November 2008

Event: Left in the Dark

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On 4 December 2008, ODI, the BBC World Service Trust, and the Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) will host " Left in the Dark : The Un...