Forced Migration Online: Blog

Professor Roger Zetter, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre was among the experts interviewed for the recent BBC World Service programme, The Instant Guide to Refugees.

According to the latest official figures there are some eleven million refugees in the world, almost one in five of them from Afghanistan. This week the Instant Guide looks at the status of the world’s refugees – their rights, where they mostly are and at life in a refugee camp.

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The RSC recently added three new titles to its Working Paper Series: ‘Salah Sheeks is a refugee: New insights into primary and subsidiary forms of protection’, ‘UHCR as an Autonomous Organisation: Complex Operations and the Case of Kosovo’ and ‘Family Reunification: A Right for Forced Migrants?’.

• Refugee Studies Centre Working Papers
• Family Reunification: A Right for Forced Migrations? (PDF file 207 KB)
• UNHCR as an Autonomous Organisation: Complex Operations and the Case of Kosovo (PDF file 203 KB)
• Salah Sheekh is a refugee: New insights into primary and subsidiary forms of protection (PDF file 139 KB)

“On this Human Rights Day, it is my hope that we will all act on our collective responsibility to uphold the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration. We can only honour the towering vision of that inspiring document when its principles are fully applied everywhere, for everyone.”
Ban Ki-moon,
United Nations Secretary-General

For resources and more information about Human Rights Day and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights see the FMO resource summary and the selected digital library documents below.

• Resource summary
• The functioning of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
• Protecting human rights: the challenge to humanitarian organizations
• A humanitarian practitioner’s guide to international human rights law
• Human rights at the dawn of the 21st century
• Human rights and refugees