Showing posts with label refugees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label refugees. Show all posts

22 December 2008

Podcast: Instant Guide to Refugees

The Forced Migration Online Blog reported today that the BBC Radio World Service, as part of its Instant Guide series, has made a podcast available on the refugee situation. A number of experts are interviewed, including the director of the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC). You can listen to the podcast via the FMO Blog, or download it from the BBC.

23 June 2008

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]

21 March 2008

Second IASFM Conference Podcast

As reported on the Forced Migration Discussion List and the Forced Migration Blog, the second podcast from the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) plenary session at the January 2008 conference is now available on Forced Migration Online (FMO).

This podcast includes the keynote address ‘Palestine refugees in the contemporary context: a view from UNRWA’ by Karen Abu Zayd, Commissioner General of UNRWA, followed by a panel discussion ‘The situation of refugees in the Middle East’ chaired by Maysa Ayoub, and including Helen Young, Patricia Fagen and Shahira Samy.

For other recordings in the series, visit the podcasts page on FMO.