23 June 2008

MSF Field Research Site

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has made its field research available at a new site. Published research and commentary can be accessed topically (for example, "emergencies/refugees"), or by title, author or journal. A separate section houses conference abstracts. Visitors can subscribe to the RSS feed in order to keep track of new additions to the site.

Webcasts of Recent Meetings/Presentations

5th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference - 2008 and Beyond: Immigration Challenges the New Administration Will Confront, 20 May 2008 [access]

Climate Change, Migration & Environmental Refugees. Professor Andy Pitman, Dr Jane McAdam and Anna Samson, speaking UNSW, 23 May 2008 [access]

Five Years Later, A Hidden Crisis: The Plight of Iraqi Refugees. George Biddle, Senior Vice President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), speaking at Princeton University, 21 April 2008 [access]

06 June 2008

IDP Voices

A new country has been added to the IDP Voices site. Visitors can listen to 29 personal stories in English, Georgian or Russian that detail the experiences of displaced people in Georgia. Thirteen of these stories have been compiled into a book, A Heavy Burden - Internally Displaced in Georgia: Stories of People from Abkhazia and South Ossetia - which is also available on the site.