Refugees and AIDS: What should the humanitarian
community do?
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children.
January 2002. 36pp. Free.
This short publication has been published under the auspices of the Inter-agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations. It aims to stimulate policy makers, managers and implementers to strengthen their response to HIV/AIDS. Key resource materials are listed.
Contact: WCRWC, 122 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10168-1289, USA. Tel: +1 212 551 3111. Email: wcrwc@womenscommission.org. Website: www.womenscommission.org www.rhrc.org/resources/gbv
Humanitarian Action: Improving Performance through
Improved Learning
ALNAP Annual Review 2002. April 2002. 232pp. ISBN
0 85003 586 4. £15 (excluding p&p).
Each ALNAP Annual Review contains a synthesis of the findings of evaluations of humanitarian action and a meta-evaluation assessing the quality of individual reports. This 2002 Review covers 46 individual evaluations and nine synthesis reports, providing a mirror by which the humanitarian sector can reflect on its performance and on the quality of its current principal tool for accountability and learning - evaluation. The focus of this year's Review is on learning to improve performance.
Contact: ALNAP, c/o ODI, 111 Westminster Bridge
Road, London SE1 7JD, UK.
Tel: +44 020 7922 0300. Fax: +44 020 7922 0399.
Email: alnap@odi.org.uk. Website:
www.alnap.org
The Price of Indifference: Refugees and
Humanitarian Action in the New Century
by Arthur C Helton. Council
on Foreign Relations. March 2002. 314pp. ISBN 0 19 925031 6 (paperback):
£14.99. ISBN 0 19 925030 8 (hardback): £45.00.
This book analyses refugee policy responses over the past decade - including the crises in Bosnia, Cambodia, East Timor, Haiti, Kosovo, Rwanda and Somalia - and calls for specific reforms to make policy more proactive and comprehensive.
Contact: Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon
Street, Oxford OX2 6DP. UK
Tel: +44 (0)1536 741727. Website:
www.oup.co.uk
The Need for a More Focused Response: European
Donor Policies Toward Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)
by Philip
Rudge. Brookings-CUNY Project on Internal Displacement/Norwegian Refugee
Council/US Committee for Refugees. January 2002. 36pp. Free. Also at
www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/fp/projects/idp/articles/EuropeanDonors.htm
This report examines European donor response to internal displacement in Colombia, Sudan, Chechnya/Ingushetia and Afghanistan, and focuses especially on the European Union and Norway.
Contact: Brookings-SIAS Project on Internal
Displacement at 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC 20036-2188, USA.
Tel: +1 202 797 6145. Email: GSANCHEZ@brook.edu.
NRC Global IDP
Project, Chemin Moise-Duboule 59, Geneva CH 1209, Switzerland.
Tel: +41 22
799 0700. Email: idpsurvey@nrc.ch
World Refugee Survey 2002
US Committee
for Refugees. June 2002. 309pp. $25.
The most comprehensive report available on refugees, IDPs and asylum seekers worldwide. In addition to USCR's country-by country analysis, the Survey includes comprehensive statistics as well as articles examining the impact of 11 September on refugees and asylum seekers.
Contact: Publications, USCR, 1717 Massachusetts
Ave, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036, USA.
Tel: +1 1-800-307-4712.
Email: uscr@irsa-uscr.org .
Available online:
www.refugees.org/WRS2002.cfm
The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law
by Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier. March 2002. 489pp. ISBN 0 7425
1063 8. £27.00 (paperback).
This publication explains the terms, concepts and rules of humanitarian law in reader-friendly A-Z entries. Aimed at NGO and government relief workers, peacekeepers and legal professionals. Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier is Legal Director for the Médecins Sans Frontières Foundation in Paris.
Contact: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Ltd.
In US, tel (800) 462-6420 or email custserv@rowman.com.
In UK, Tel 01752
202301 or email orders@plymbridge.co.uk.
See
www.rowmanlittlefield.com for list of international
distributors.
Recent Commentaries about the Nature and
Application of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
Brookings-CUNY Project on Internal Displacement. April 2002. 33pp.
Free.
This report comprises three sections:
I. 'How Hard is Soft Law? The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the Need for a Normative Framework' by Walter Kälin, Professor of Constitutional and International Public Law, University of Bern, Switzerland.
II. 'The Normative Framework on Internal Displacement - Excerpt from the Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General to the UN Commission on Human Rights: Mass Exoduses and Displaced Persons' by Francis M Deng, Representative of the Secretary-General on IDPs.
III. 'The Guiding Principles: How do they support IDP Response Strategies?' by Roberta Cohen, Co-Director, The Brookings-CUNY Project on Internal Displacement.
[Walter Kälin's presentation is also available at www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/fp/projects/idp/articles/WKPresentation12-19.htm. Roberta Cohen's article is also available at www.fmreview.org/oslo/osloidp.pdf.]
Contact: Brookings-CUNY Project on Internal
Displacement, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC 20036-2188, US.
Tel:
+1 202 797 6145. Email: GSANCHEZ@brook.edu.
If Not Now, When?
Addressing
Gender-based Violence in Refugee, Internally Displaced, and Post-conflict
Settings: A Global Overview
by Jeanne Ward. Reproductive Health for
Refugees Consortium. May 2002. 123pp. ISBN 1 58030 017 0. Free. Also available
at www.rhrc.org/resources/gbv.
This report is one of several outcomes of a two-year global Gender-based Violence Initiative spearheaded by the RHR Consortium and aimed at strengthening international and local capacity to address GBV in refugee, IDP and post-conflict settings. It includes 12 country profiles from around the world. Other outcomes of the Initiative include a web-based bibliography of GBV resources (www.rhrc.org/resources/gbv/bib) and a field manual for assessment, programme design and evaluation (publication later this year).
Contact: Jeanne Ward, GBV Research Officer,
Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium, WCRWC, 122 East 42nd Street, New
York, NY 10168-1289, USA.
Tel: +1 212 551 2734. Email:
Jeanne@the IRC.org. Website:
www.rhrc.org/resources/gbv