UNHCR Online Game and New Publications

1) Refugee game offers fear, flight and safety – one click at a time. The UNHCR has just launched an English language version of their Against All Odds online game. The game is designed to be of educational value and is primarily aimed at schoolchildren. Further background information can be found in this UNHCR News Story released today and the game itself is available online at: http://www.playagainstallodds.com/

2) The UNHCR has also recently launched two online publications via the UNHCR website (www.unhcr.org) which may be of relevance to researchers and students. The first is entitled "Asylum in the European Union. A Study of the Implementation of the Qualification Directive (November 2007) and this is available to download from: [by clicking here]; the second publication is entitled "UNHCR Position on the Situation of Asylum in Ukraine in the Context of Return of Asylum-Seekers October 2007" and again, this is available to download: [by clicking here].

3) Australia. Austcare (The Australian Humanitarian Aid NGO) has recently launched its latest annual report for the year 2006-07. This can be viewed on the Austcare website at: http://www.austcare.org.au/aboutus/annual-reports.aspx along with a brief online video highlighting the range of Austcare's programs over the last year.

4) Refugees International have just released a number of policy recommendations and fact sheets relating to the exodus of refugees from Zimbabwe. Download a .pdf of these policy recommendations and fact sheets.

New Publications List on FMO Blog

A new list of online publications has just been made available via the Forced Migration Online blog. A full list of these can be found on the Publications section of the blog at: http://fm-pubs.blogspot.com/

Publications include:

Asylum in the European Union: A Study of the Implementation of the Qualification Directive (UNHCR, Nov. 2007) [text]

"The Truth May be Bitter, but It Must be Told": The Situation of Refugees in the Aegean and the Practices of the Greek Coast Guard (Pro Asyl & Greek Group of Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants, Oct. 2007) [text]

New Publications

This list of new resources has been from the Welcome to you Library email newsletter. Details of how to subscribe to this free regular email update are available here: http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/

Reports

Strong and prosperous communities - The Local Government White Paper Implementation Plan: one year on

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/localgovernment/pdf/532485

Updated implementation plan, showing the progress made on how the Government is playing its part in implementing key proposals.

Volunteering works

http://www.volunteering.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4D138A1D-022E-4570-9866-B8E3A4F86C20/0/Final_Volunteering_Works.pdf [nb file is 8 Mb]

New report from Volunteering England that demonstrates the positive impact of volunteering in five key policy areas: development; safer and stronger communities; social inclusion; quality of life and lifelong learning. Includes brief reference to the needs of refugees and asylum-seekers.

List of New Resources

This list of new resources has been from the Welcome to you Library email newsletter. Details of how to subscribe to this free regular email update are available here: http://www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk/

Refugees' Experiences of Integration
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/policy/position/2007/integration.htm
Report from two year qualitative research project by Refugee Council and University of Birmingham and funded by the Big Lottery Fund, looking at the social aspects of refugees’ integration, particularly in relation to how these were experienced in two different localities, Haringey and Dudley, and across different groups of refugees and asylum seekers. See weblink above for more information and links to full report and executive summary.

Sexual Health, Asylum Seekers and Refugees. A Handbook for people working with refugees and asylum seekers in England
http://www.fpa.org.uk/community/refugees/index.cfm?contentid=40
(Source: www.refed.org.uk)
Report published by Family Planning Association as a result of research by several organisations is now available via their website (see link above) for more background and for the handbook. On the same webpage there are also details of a community research report , Sexual Health in Exile on the sexual health concerns, issues and needs of refugees and asylum seekers in South and West Yorkshire.

Britains' Immigrants: An economic profile
http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=563
Report by Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Laurence Cooley and Tracy Kornblatt from ippr. More information and available to download from weblink above.

Refugee Agencies' map
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/howwehelp/partners/partnership/iap.htm
The Refugee Council has produced a downloadable a map of the locations of the 'one stop services' provided by refugee agencies (includes phone numbers, addresses and opening times).

Gatehouse Books

(Source: Mark White, Gatehouse Books)

http://www.gatehousebooks.co.uk/

Publishes adult beginner reader books and resources for use in Adult Literacy and ESOL. Our growing portfolio not only includes books but also audio-cassettes, interactive CD-ROMs and educational resources suitable for adult and post-14 basic skills learners.

Newsletters, Publications and Updates

New ICAR Newsletter Available at : http://www.icar.org.uk/newsletter/
Includes information on new ICAR Briefings, Media Trust Survey and RAL / Asylum Updates

MPI Data Hub: Updates to the Country and Comparative Data for both the United Kingdom and Australia is now available via the Migration policy Institute website at: http://www.migrationinformation.org/DataHub/comparative.cfm

The following tables were updated for the United Kingdom:

• Foreign born as a percentage of the total population, 1951 to 2005 (selected years)
• Foreign population as a percentage of the total population, 1990 to 2005
• Estimates of the net number of migrants, by five year intervals, 1950 to 2005
• Inflow of foreign population by country of nationality, 1991 to 2006
• Top ten sending countries, by country of nationality, 1991 to 2006
• Acquisition of citizenship by country of former nationality, 1980 to 2006
• Acquisition of citizenship (total), 1980 to 2006

Two new Online Publications Update on the FMO Current Awareness Blog and can be found on the Publications section of the Blog at: http://fm-pubs.blogspot.com/

Some of the publications listed include:

Human Trafficking: Update (House of Lords & House of Commons, Oct. 2007) [text]

The myth of invasion: Irregular migration from West Africa to the Maghreb and the European Union (International Migration Institute, Oct. 2007) [text]

Sexual health, asylum seekers and refugees: A handbook for people working with refugees and asylum seekers in England (FPA, 2007) [text]

Human Rights Report, 1 April to 30 June 2007 (UN Assistance Mission for Iraq , Oct. 2007) [text]

Refugees' Experiences of Integration (Refugee Council and Univ. of Birmingham, Oct. 2007) [access]

Publications

Evidence from our regional consultation on the impacts of migration (BBC) - Full text online available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/17_10_07_migration.pdf

The joint Treasury, Home Office and Work and Pensions study on The Economic and Fiscal Impact of Immigration. The report is available full text online at: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2007/10/16/Economic.pdf

New Publications from FMO

The following list of publications was distributed through the FMO Jiscmail email list and I recommend this as a very useful tool especially for students to keep up-to-date with current information and development within the forced migration field. Further information can be found at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html

Below please find references to new online publications, journal/newsletter
issues, events and opportunities, and web sites/tools.

**Please note that long URLs may break into two lines in some mail readers. Cut
and paste each line of the URL, if this happens.**


**Online Articles/Publications**

Access to health care and human rights of asylum seekers in Malta: Experiences, results and recommendations (Médecins du Monde, 2007) -
http://www.jrsmalta.org/MdM2007_Report.pdf

Asylum Disparities Persist, Regardless of Court Location and Nationality (TRAC,
Sept. 2007) - http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/183/

Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries: Second Quarter 2007
(UNHCR, Sept. 2007) - http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/STATISTICS/46f0e0dd2.pdf

The building blocks of sustainable peace: The views of internally displaced
people in Northern Uganda, Oxfam Briefing Paper 106 (Sept. 2007) -
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/conflict_disasters/downloads/bp106_nuganda.pdf

Charting the Roads to Peace: Facts, Figures and Trends in Conflict Resolution
(Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EMAE-76ZRRE?OpenDocument (via
ReliefWeb)

Civilians in the way of conflict: Displaced people in Sri Lanka (IDMC, Sept.
2007) - http://tinyurl.com/yo9fmq

Dealing with the Past in Post-Conflict Societies: Ten Years after the Peace
Accords - in Guatemala and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Swiss Peace Annual Conference,
Sept. 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/EVOD-77CDU9?OpenDocument
(via ReliefWeb)

Determining the Best Interests of Unaccompanied and Separated Children: Lessons
from Guinea (International Rescue Committee, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-77CSAW?OpenDocument (via
ReliefWeb)

"Drug Donations in Emergencies, the Sri Lankan post-tsunami experience," by R.
Hechmann, Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (26 Sept. 2007) -
http://jha.ac/2007/09/26/drug-donations-in-emergencies-the-sri-lankan-post-tsunami-experience/

Dynamics of Conflict and Displacement in Papua, Indonesia: A collection of
papers developed in conjunction with a one-day workshop held on the 26th
October 2006 at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, RSC Working Paper no. 42 (RSC,
Sept. 2007) - http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/RSCworkingpaper42.pdf

Fighting HIV/AIDS together with refugees and internally displaced populations:
Summary of 2006 UNHCR Missions (UNHCR, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/47010d3b2.pdf

Getting the Policies Right: The Prioritization and Sequencing of Policies in
Post-Conflict Countries, by A. R. Timilsina (RAND Dissertation, 2007) -
http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD222/

Impact Assessment of the Gokwe Integrated Recovery Action Project Zimbabwe
(Feinstein International Center, August 2007) -
http://fic.tufts.edu/downloads/JohnZimbabwe_10_2_07.pdf

International Law Commission: Report on the work of its fifty-ninth session (7
May to 5 June and 9 July to 10 August 2007), A/62/10; see esp. Chapter
6, “Expulsion of Aliens” (UN, 2007) -
http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/reports/2007/2007report.htm

Iraq: Human rights abuses against Palestinian refugees (Amnesty International,
Oct. 2007) - http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE140302007

Meeting the Health Needs of Iraqis Displaced in Neighbouring Countries: Joint
Appeal by UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and WHO (18 Sept. 2007) -
http://www.who.int/hac/crises/irq/appeal/iraq_neighbours_appeal_18sep07.pdf

Millions in Flight: The Iraqi Refugee Crisis (Amnesty International, 24 Sept.
2007) - http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE140412007

Proposed Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2008: Report to Congress (U.S.
State Dept., Sept. 2007) -
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/91978.pdf

Rapporteur’s Report: UNHCR’s Annual Consultations with NGOs (28 Sept. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/ngo-consultations/report_rapporteur_2007.pdf

Real-time Evaluations of UNHCR's Involvement in Operations for Internally
Displaced Persons and the Cluster Approach: Analysis of Findings,
EC/58/SC/CRP.23 (EXCOM Standing Committee, August 2007) -
http://fic.tufts.edu/downloads/JohnZimbabwe_10_2_07.pdf

"Redesigning the ReliefWeb," by S. Naidoo, in Information Management Journal
(Sept. 2007) -
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/TBRL-77ENDF?OpenDocument

Report of the Secretary-General on women and peace and security, S/2007/567 (12
Sept. 2007) -
http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/02102007020619PMUNRP92.htm
(via UN Pulse)

Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and
Armed Conflict, A/62/228 (Aug. 2007) - http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf/dx/25092007120542PMMVALVP.htm
(via UN Pulse)

Reports and Documents for the 58th Executive Committee Plenary Session, 1 - 5
October 2007 - http://www.unhcr.org/excom/46fb6c122.html

Rights Here, Rights Now: Recommendations for Protecting Trafficked Children
(ECPAT UK & UNICEF UK, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.ecpat.org.uk/downloads/RightsHere_RightsNow.pdf

Singled Out: Russia’s Detention and Expulsion of Georgians (Human Rights Watch,
Oct. 2007) - http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/09/30/russia16977.htm

"Where to Now? Decreasing Options for Displaced Iraqis," by A. Harper,
Migration Information Source (Sept. 2007) -
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=644

Zambia: Analysis of the Gaps in Protection of Refugees (UNHCR, Sept. 2007) -
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/PROTECTION/46f26f974.pdf

**Journals/Newsletters**

Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 16, no. 4 (2007) -
http://tinyurl.com/2agl97 (contents)

Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 30, no. 5 (2007) -
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g781042901~db=all (contents)

European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 9, no. 3 (2007) -
http://tinyurl.com/28vj7u (contents)

Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 20 (Spring 2007) -
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/current/ (full-text)

Hommes et Migrations, no. 1266 (mars/avril 2007) -
http://www.hommes-et-migrations.fr/ (contents, selected full-text)
- Focus is on "Nouvelles figures de l’immigration en France et en Méditerranée."

International Migration, vol. 45, no. 4 (Oct. 2007) -
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/imig/45/4 (contents)

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 33, no. 8 (2007) -
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g782809369~db=all (contents)

Migration Letters, vol. 4, no. 2 (Oct. 2007) -
http://www.migrationletters.com/content.html (full-text)
- Special issue on "Migration and Human Security in the Balkans."

The Researcher, vol. 2, no. 3 (Sept. 2007) -
http://www.ecoi.net/news/28.welcome-to-the-seventh-issue-of-the-researcher.htm
(full-text)

Torture Journal, vol. 17, no. 2 (2007) -
http://www.irct.org/Default.aspx?ID=3553 (full-text)
- Shared reports from the IRCT Symposium on Torture, the theme for which
was "Providing Reparation and Treatment, Preventing Impunity."

**Events & Opportunities**

International Day for Disaster Reduction, 10 October 2007 -
http://www.unisdr.org/eng/public_aware/world_camp/2006-2007/iddr/2007-iddr.htm
- This year’s theme is “Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School.”

Launch of Human Development Report 2007/2008, 27 November 2007 -
http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2007.cfm

**Web Sites/Tools**

Country of Return Information Project -
http://www.vluchtelingenwerk.be/projecten/cri.php
- See “Country Sheets.”

Ibrahim Index of African Governance -
http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/the-index.asp
- Assessment of governance quality in Sub-Saharan Africa.


Elisa Mason
Information Specialist
http://fm-cab.blogspot.com

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