The Internally Displaced People of Iraq
by John Fawcett & Victor Tanner. Brookings Institution-SAIS Project
on Internal Displacement. October 2002. 54pp. Free. Online at
www.brook.edu/fp/projects/IDP/articles/iraqreport.htm
This report is one of a series of publications and activities to focus
attention on IDPs in areas largely closed off from view. Numbers of IDPs in
Iraq continue to grow; estimates range from 600,000 to 800,000 in the north of
the country and up to 300,000 in the south. This report discusses why this
state of affairs has come about, how effective attempts to help have been, and
the role of the UN and the government of Iraq.
Contact: Gimena
Sanchez-Garzoli, Brookings-SAIS Project on Internal Displacement. Tel: +1 202
797 6168. Email: gsanchez@brookings.
Adult Wars, Child Soldiers: Voices of Children
Involved in Armed Conflict in the East Asia and Pacific
Region
UNICEF. October 2002. 81pp. Free. Online at
www.unicef.org/media/publications/adultwarschildsoldiers.pdf
Thousands
of children are still being recruited - often by force - into state- and
non-state armies in the East Asia and Pacific region. Based on interviews with
69 current and former child combatants from six countries (Cambodia, East
Timor, Indonesia, Burma/Myanmar, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines), this
UNICEF report provides often moving first-hand accounts of their experiences.
It calls for the systematic demobilisation of all child soldiers; provision of
support for their reintegration, with an emphasis on access to education and
vocational training; and strengthening the capacity for provision of
appropriate psychosocial care and support for former combatants.
Contact
Mark Thomas, UNICEF EAPRO, 19 Phra Atit Road, Bangkok 10200, Thailand. Tel: +66
2 356 9407. Email: eapro@unicef.org
The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Odyssey
by Jonathan Kaplan. Pan Macmillan. 2002. 416pp. ISBN 0330 480790.
£6.99 paperback.
Surgeon Jonathan Kaplan has flown around the
world on medical assignments, sewing people together whose lives and countries
are being ripped apart - countries such as Kurdistan, Mozambique, Burma and
Eritrea. The Dressing Station is described as "a book from the medical front
line which shatters any preconceptions we may have about the nature of
surgery… an unforgettable portrait of modern, global
medicine."
Order from any online bookstore or contact Bookpost: Tel: +44
01624 836000. Fax: +44 01624 837033. Email:
bookshop@enterprise.net.
Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian
Action
by Fiona Terry (Médecins Sans Frontières).
Cornell University Press. 2002. 304pp. ISBN 0 8014 8796 X. $19.95.
Fiona Terry was the head of the French section of Médecins Sans
Frontières when it withdrew from the Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire
because aid intended for refugees actually strengthened those responsible for
perpetrating genocide. Humanitarian groups have failed, Terry believes, to face
up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate
suffering but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs
suffering. Terry examines the side-effects of intervention by aid organisations
and points out the need to acknowledge the political consequences of the choice
to give aid. Condemned to Repeat? focuses on four historically relevant cases:
Rwandan camps in Zaire, Afghan camps in Pakistan, Salvadoran and Nicaraguan
camps in Honduras, and Cambodian camps in Thailand.
Order from
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu or any online bookstore or
contact: Sales Department, Sage House, Cornell University Press, 512 East State
St, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
Statistical Yearbook 2001 Refugees, Asylum-seekers
and Other Persons of Concern - Trends in Displacement, Protection and Solutions
Béla Hovy. UNHCR. 2002. ISSN 1684-9051. 165pp. Online at
www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/statistics (then click on box in righthand
column).
Includes chapters on: populations, new arrivals and durable
solutions; gender, age and location; government and UNHCR refugee status
determination; asylum and refugee admission in industralised countries; country
indicators. Plus maps.
Free copies can be obtained by sending an email to
hqcs00@unhcr.ch (Subject: 2001 Statistical
Yearbook), for as long as stocks last.
HPN publications now on a free CD-ROM
A
CD-ROM is available with publications from the HPN and the Humanitarian Policy
Group at ODI. Hundreds of articles, research papers, briefing papers and good
practice reviews chart the development of humanitarian practice and policy from
1994 to March 2002. The CD-ROM contains:
All HPN publications are available in English and French. Copies of the CD-ROM are free; for yours, contact Alison Prescott at a.prescott@odi.org.uk or write to her at: ODI, Portland House, Stag Place, London SW1E 5DP, UK.