Forced Migration Online: Blog

There is just one week left to take part in the Forced Migration Online 2010 User Survey.

The information gathered in this survey will help us to better address user needs and will be taken into account when planning any future changes to the site.

Relevant comments will also be fed back to our funders, helping to ensure that the resources provided by Forced Migration Online will remain available in the future.

The survey has 24 questions and should take only 5-10 minutes of your time. Please take a few minutes to contribute your views.

This survey will close on Tuesday 31 August.

Monday 9 August marked the United Nations International Day of Indigenous Peoples.

“The world’s population of indigenous people now numbers some 350 million individuals representing over 5,000 languages and cultures in more than 70 countries on every continent. Many live on the fringes of society, in sometimes precarious and impoverished conditions. Their material, environmental and spiritual situations, together with their world-views and intimate relationship with the land and natural resources, are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of globalization. The resulting instability, aggravated by dispossession from their land and natural resources, has disrupted the handing down of their cultural heritage from one generation to the next.”

UNESCO, “International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People”

Forced Migration Online’s resource page on the subject highlights a number of key online information sources relating to indigenous peoples.

It also features a selection of full-text documents, web-based resources, and descriptions of relevant organizations available through FMO that focus on related issues.

• FMO Resource Summary: Indigenous Peoples

This podcast was recorded as part of the Oxfam Archive Oral History project.

It features an interview with Maurice Herson, Editor of Forced Migration Review and previously Deputy Humanitarian Director and Head of Humanitarian Programme Advisory Team at Oxfam.

‘Rwanda and the Great Lakes: A Personal View from the Oxfam Archive” is the second of a two-part series. In this recording, Maurice speaks about the Great Lakes emergency and the Rwanda genocide.

The first podcast focused on Maurice’s career in Sudan in the 1980s.

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This podcast was recorded as part of the Oxfam Archive Oral History project.

It features an interview with Maurice Herson, Editor of Forced Migration Review and previously Deputy Humanitarian Director and Head of Humanitarian Programme Advisory Team at Oxfam.

‘Sudan in the 1980s’ is the first of a two-part series. In this recording, Maurice speaks about his career as a Relief Coordinator in Sudan.

The second podcast in this series will be released next week. It will focus on the Great Lakes refugee crisis of the mid-1990s.

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