The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) released a new report today; Internal Displacement in Africa: A Development Challenge ”highlights how internal displacement is not just an humanitarian, human rights or peace-building challenge, but also a development one.”
Other recent publications on Africa include:
Darfurians in South Sudan: Negotiating Belonging in Two Sudans, Citizenship and Displacement in the Great Lakes Region Working Paper, no. 7 (International Refugee Rights Initiative, May 2012) [text]
“It Takes the Whole Village”: Assisting Socially and Economically Marginalized Women in African Refugee Camps and Post-Displacement Venues, Graduate Student Projects, Paper no. 2 (Boise State University, May 2012) [text]
Kenya: Enhancing Information and Transparency for Internally Displaced Persons (Article 19, June 2012) [text]
UNHCR Repatriates almost 14,000 Angolans; Steps up Pace of Return Ahead of Deadline (UNHCR, June 2012) [text]
“We can run away from bombs, but not from hunger”: Sudan’s Refugees in South Sudan (Amnesty International, June 2012) [text]
Closing the Loop: Responding to People’s Information Needs from Crisis Response to Recovery to Development – A Case Study of Post-Earthquake Haiti (Internews, May 2012) [text]
Crisis Mapping, Humanitarian Principles and the Application of Protection Standards: A Dialogue between Crisis Mappers and Operational Humanitarian Agencies, Geneva, 17 Nov. 2011 (World Vision, 2012) [text]
Deepening Participation and Improving Aid Effectiveness through Media and ICTs: A Practical Manual Translating Lessons Learned into Daily Practice (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2011) [text]
New Technologies in Humanitarian Aid, London, 29 March 2012 (ODI, March 201) [access]
Social Media Use and the Humanitarian Sector (Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, April 2012) [text]
Still Left in the Dark? How People in Emergencies Use Communication to Survive – and How Humanitarian Agencies Can Help, Policy Briefing, no. 6 (BBC Media Action, March 2012) [text]
Urban Refugee Protection in Cairo: The Role of Communication, Information and Technology, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 236 (UNHCR, May 2012) [text]
When Information Saves Lives: 2011 Annual Report – Internews Humanitarian Information Projects (Internews Network, Jan. 2012) [text]
Humanitarians without Borders: Work, Mobility and Wellbeing in UNHCR, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 237 (UNHCR, May 2012) [text]
“Statelessness and Human Rights: The Role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),” EAFIT Journal of International Law, vol. 2, no. 2 (2011) [full-text]
“The Uneven Development of the International Refugee Regime in Postwar Asia: Evidence from China, Hong Kong and Indonesia,” Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Access, 25 June 2012 [abstract]
- Examines past UNHCR’s approach to refugee problems in Asia.
The source for all of these publications was the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog at: http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/
