Archive for April, 2009

Podcast: Sahrawi Disappeared

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Sahrawi disappeared demonstration outside the UN, Geneva, March 2003. Photo: S L James.

This podcast was recorded between September 2002 and October 2007 in Algeria, Switzerland and the UK. The podcast includes comments from Philip Luther, Amnesty International, Christian Viret, BIRDHSO and Sidi Omar, Polisario representative to the UK and Ireland as well as former Sahrawi disappeared Daoud El Khadir and other Sahrawis with family members still missing.

A Non-Negotiated Solution to the Colombian Conflict?

Friday, April 17th, 2009

School children in the Nelson Mandela settlement of IDPs in Cartagena in Colombia, 2007. Over 60,000 IDPs are estimated to live in this settlement. Photo: Sean Loughna.

The Implications for Sustainable Peace and Democracy
Two-Day Workshop, University of Oxford. 21st – 22nd May 2009

This two-day workshop aims to examine how a ‘non-negotiated solution’ to the Colombian conflict might impact on the country’s political and economic future, and on the social fabric which has been so damaged by decades of violence.

Jointly organized by the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford and the International Centre for Participation Studies at the University of Bradford, the workshop will bring together in Oxford prominent speakers from Colombia, the US and Europe.

Space is limited so please register early. Further details and registration forms can be obtained from Alexandra Abello Colak at: a.abellocolak@bradford.ac.uk

Forced Migration Review: Statelessness

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Cover of Forced Migration Review: Statelessness

Issue 32 of Forced Migration Review: Statelessness is now available in the digital library (FMR is one of five journals available).

A ‘stateless person’ is someone who is not recognised as a national by any state. They therefore have no nationality or citizenship and are unprotected by national legislation, leaving them vulnerable in ways that most of us never have to consider. This latest issue of FMR includes 22 articles by academic, international and local actors debating the challenges faced by stateless people and the search for appropriate responses and solutions.

The issue also includes 17 articles on other aspects of forced migration, among which are a mini-feature (comprising four articles) on refugee status determination and articles on European migration policies, Colombia, Ecuador, disaster IDPs, Europe-Africa cooperation, trafficking in Iran, cash grants for refugees and reproductive health care in emergencies.

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