Submitted by mmillard on اثنين, 2010/03/15 - 16:22
المؤلف الرئيسي :
Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group
المؤسسة الرئيسية:
Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group
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Developed over the past few years as a programme on human rights and peace education, the annual winter course on forced migration organised each year by the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (CRG) has come to be recognised in the region of South Asia as one of the most well known educational programmes on issues of rights and justice relating to the victims of forced migration.
The online journal of studies on women’s memory DEP.“Deportees, Exiles, Refugees” (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, http://www.unive.it/dep where you can find a brief presentation in English) announces a call for papers for a special issue on the theme “Gender and forced migration: displaced women in contemporary China”. We are especially interested in articles dealing with gender and development-induced displacement in the Chinese context including both direct and indirect forms of displacement.
In their introductory articles in the feature section, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres and UN-HABITAT Executive Director Anna Tibaijuka emphasise the complexity of the challenges faced by those displaced into urban areas and by those seeking to protect and assist them, and argue for the need for a radical rethinking of
The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) Student Caucus is pleased to announce that the Annual Student Conference will take place on April 8th and 9that York University, Toronto, Canada. This event offers Graduate and Undergraduate Students across disciplines and those with a keen interest in migration and refugee issues the opportunity to present and discuss their research ideas with fellow students, academics, professional, frontline practitioners, researchers and all those interested in forced migration issues.
A conference at the University of Leeds, UK Friday 29th January 2010
This conference will examine the journeys of forced migrants. It will explore these journeys through the lenses of justice and human rights. A key part of the conference will be to debate better solutions to the problems of injustice and human rights denial that so often taint the journeys of forced migrants. Its focus is mainly on the UK, but contributions from elsewhere are welcome.