The U.S. State Department launched its Trafficking in Persons Report for 2012 yesterday. Access to the text is available here; more information about the report is provided in this briefing.
Trafficking in Human Beings: New Impetus in Fighting the Modern Form of Slavery (European Commission, June 2012) [access]
Trafficking in Persons: International Dimensions and Foreign Policy Issues for Congress (Congressional Research Service, April 2012) [text]
UNHCR Statement on the Application of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protcol to Victims of Trafficking in France (UNHCR, June 2012) [text]
Can Frontex Be Held Liable for Human Rights Violations? Potential Application of Recent European Case Law to the Activities of an Inter-Governmental Agency (SSRN, June 2012) [text]
EU Migration Policy and Its Reflection in Third Countries: Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine (Bridge, 2012) [text]
- See esp. chapters on “Functioning of the EU Management of External Borders with Emphasis on Migration and Asylum Problems,” “Application of Legislation of the Republic of Belarus on Refugees and the Main Lines of its Development,” “Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Context of the European Union Policies: the Case of Greece,” and “General Legal Aspect on Asylum within European Union and Italy: A Comprehensive Proposal for a Regulatory Reform.”
Forward, Backward, Stalling? Seminar Series Reflects on the Completion of the Common European Asylum System (RSC, June 2012) [access]
- Includes link to podcasts.
“I came here for peace”: The Systematic Ill-treatment of Migrants and Refugees by State Agents in Patras (Pro Asyl & Greek Council for Refugees, May 2012) [text]
S.O.S. Europe: Human Rights and Migration Control (Amnesty International, June 2012) [text]
- See also “When you don’t exist” campaign.
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) released its “annual summary of the numbers of people internally displaced by sudden onset natural disasters” yesterday. Global Estimates 2011: People Displaced by Natural Hazard-Induced Disasters found that “in 2011, 14.9 million people were internally displaced throughout the world due to natural disasters, mostly related to weather events such as floods and storms.” Most displacement took place in Asia.
Does the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program Work? The Economic Outcomes of Program Participants, Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Georgetown University, 2009; posted Feb. 2012) [text]
A Pillar of Protection: Solidarity Resettlement for Refugees in Latin America, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 239 (UNHCR, June 2012) [text]
The Resettlement of Refugees in Australia: A Bibliography (Swinburne Institute for Social Research, May 2012) [text via APO]
The source for all of these publications was the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog at: http://fm-cab.blogspot.co.uk/
