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Creative Commons, Open Access and the RRN

Posted Tue, 2010/06/01 - 14:16 by evan

At the bottom of every page on the RRN website you'll now see something slightly different. Instead of the usual "Copyright 2009, All Right Reserved" is a notice that the original content of the RRN website is released for copying under a Creative Commons "Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike" license. This is an opening of the RRN site's copyright restrictions, that now allow anyone to copy material from the site as long as:

Podcast: Relocation of Young Uyghur Women in China

Posted Wed, 2010/05/26 - 13:36 by paulap

The latest in FMO’s growing selection of podcasts focuses on a new Chinese government policy, recruiting young Uyghur women from majority Uyghur areas of East Turkestan, and transferring them to work in factories in urban areas of eastern China. Under this policy, thousands of Uyghur women have been removed from their families and placed into substandard working conditions thousands of miles from their homes.

ToR for a Senior Research Consultancy for the Migrants’ Needs and Vulnerability Assessment in the Gauteng Province

Posted Wed, 2010/05/26 - 13:22 by paulap

Please find attached the ToR for a Senior Research Consultancy for the Migrants’ Needs and Vulnerability Assessment in the Gauteng Province. IOM will be conducting this assessment in collaboration with the Population Unit, the Gauteng Department of Social Development and Health.

Grateful if you could disseminate the attached ToR to individuals/organizations that may be interested.

Interested persons/organizations should send their proposed research plan including CV(s) to pretoriacvs@iom.int no later than 30 May 2010.

Yukiko Kumashiro
Project Development Officer

Funding opportunity: Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration

Posted Tue, 2010/05/25 - 14:44 by paulap

FY 2010 Funding Opportunity Announcement to Strengthen Evidence-based
Decision Making, Conduct Assessments, and Conduct Research Relevant to
PRM-Funded Humanitarian Programs Worldwide.

Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Funding Opportunity Announcement
April 19, 2010

* Funding Opportunity Number: PRM-SGP-10-CA-04192010

* Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number: 19.522 -
Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Strategic Global Priorities
Announcement issuance date: Monday, April 19, 2010.

(Un)Trafficked in NYC

Posted Fri, 2010/05/21 - 17:27 by mmillard

An absolutely extraordinary thread where you can read the real time efforts of a community of bloggers to save 2 women from being trafficked in New York City. Internet activism at its best.

http://ask.metafilter.com/154334/Help-me-help-my-friend-in-DC

Uganda/Rwanda

Posted Thu, 2010/05/20 - 16:46 by behbond

Uganda has been forcibly repatriating Rwandans over the past year (see www.refugeelawproject.org), Uganda,Rwanda,and UNHCR have annunced they are to sign the Cessation clause by the end of the year. But Uganda has been receiving refugees who are fleeing persecution in Rwanda over the past months. Worse still, Rwandan operatives are active in Uganda bringing great insecurity to refugees and those claiming asylum from Rwanda.

stop forced migration?

Posted Tue, 2010/04/20 - 11:15 by demo2

Is there really no way to stop the forced migration in the world? Is the African union doing something for African governments, African people and society? A mass of people is flowing into migration increasingly for more than a decade.

governance for a better tomorrow's africa

Posted Tue, 2010/04/20 - 11:15 by demo3

The african continent has been characterized by political chaos, the absence of democracy.As a result, many countries find themselves in endless wars leading in tragedies such as genocide and mass killings. The leaders are to be hold accountable for all the chaos on the continent. In this blog shall be focussed on just some points among many others.


The kind of leadership, the reason behind the bad leadership,...

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