New Reports and Publications.

The Ministry of Justice has published a report on the: 'Human Rights Insight Project'.
Download the report at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/human-rights-insight-full.pdf (pdf file, 968kb)
(Source: IRR News - http://www.irr.org.uk/)

The Scottish Government has published a new report by Pam Orchard, Andrzej Szymanski and Nad'a Vlahova on: 'A Community Profile of EU8 Migrants in Edinburgh and An Evaluation of their Access to Key Services'.
Download the report at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/207638/0055078.pdf (pdf file, 552kb)
(Source: IRR News - http://www.irr.org.uk/)

"Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication," Stanford Law Review, vol. 60, no. 2 (2007) [text] - See also the related web site.
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

UNHCR's Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Afghan Asylum-Seekers (Dec. 2007) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Welfare, refugees and rescue: Denmark and the 'Jewish Question' from 1933 to 1945, DIIS Working Paper no. 2007/31 (DIIS, Dec. 2007) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/)

Like any other child? Children and families in the asylum process. A report by Barnado’s and located in full text on their website at: http://www.barnardos.org.uk/asylum
Like any other child? is a report about one of the UK’s most marginalised groups - asylum seeking and refugee children and families. Since 2002, we estimate that there have been more than 40,000 children arriving in the UK in asylum seeking families, but there could be over 100,000 in total caught up in a backlogged asylum system. We welcome the government’s New Asylum Model which should now deal with asylum cases quickly and fairly.
(Source: Refugee Council News - http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/press/2008/January/20080107_b.htm)

Report on an announced race relations audit of the Border and Immigration Agency detention estate

The audit was commissioned following an inquiry by Stephen Shaw, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, into the 2005 BBC programme 'Detention Undercover' that made allegations of racism by staff towards detainees at Oakington immigration reception centre and on escort.Visits to the immigration removals centres were conducted by Focus Consultancy between 30 January 2007 and 9 March 2007.
(Source: Border & Immigration Agency (UK Home Office) Press Release - http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/racerelationsaudit)

Violence-Related Mortality in Iraq from 2002 to 2006.

A new article/report written by the Iraq Family Health Survey Study Group and published in the New England Journal of Medicine on the 09 January 2008.
From the abstract, “Background Estimates of the death toll in Iraq from the time of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 until June 2006 have ranged from 47,668 (from the Iraq Body Count) to 601,027 (from a national survey). Results from the Iraq Family Health Survey (IFHS), which was conducted in 2006 and 2007, provide new evidence on mortality in Iraq.”

(Source: ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LRON-7APCUQ?OpenDocument)

“You Can Detain Anyone for Anything” : Iran’s Broadening Clampdown on Independent Activism. A new report by Human Rights Watch which can be viewed online by following this link [report online]
“The Iranian government is relying on its broadly worded “security laws” to suppress virtually any public expression of dissent, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. It uses these laws to subject those arrested to prolonged incommunicado detention without charge, solitary confinement, and denial of access to counsel.”
(Source: Human Rights Watch - http://hrw.org/)

Title - Making Sense of Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and
Displacement: A Work in Progress
Source - Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-7AHDLV?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Protective Action: Incorporating Civilian Protection into
Humanitarian Response
Source - ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7AHEC3?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - UNHCR Global Appeal 2008-2009
Source - UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Date - Nov 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-7AJE6H?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - International Protection for Trafficked Persons and Those Who Fear
Being Trafficked
Source - UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/AMMF-7AJH9E?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - UNHCR's Role in Support of an Enhanced Humanitarian Response to
Situations of Internal Displacement. Policy Framework and Implementation
Strategy
Source - UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Date - Jun 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/AMMF-7AJJBV?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - United Nations Consolidated Report 2006
Source - United Nations
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EMAE-7AJSUQ?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Resilience in Humanitarian Aid Workers: Understanding Processes of
Development
Source - London South Bank University
Date - Jan 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-7ANJ77?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Monitoring and Evaluation of Department of Defense Humanitarian
Assistance Programs
Source - Government of the United States of America
Date - Jan 2008
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-7APJWL?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - The State of Food and Agriculture 2007
Source - Food and Agriculture Organization
Date - Dec 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EMAE-7APS59?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Side by Side or Together? Working for Security, Development and
Peace in Liberia and Afghanistan. Workshop Report, October 2007
Source - Peacebuilding Development and Security Program, University of
Calgary
Date - Oct 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-78JKYR?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

Title - Civil-Military Cooperation in Multinational and Interagency
Operations: Discussion Paper on Operational Terminologies and Assessment
for Multinational Experiment 5 [MNE5]
Source - Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Date - May 2007
URL Address -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/PANA-79SJ2P?OpenDocument
(Source: ReliefWeb – http://www.reliefweb.int)

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