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Upcoming event:

Labour Migration and Refugee Protection – a Contradiction?, Prague, 3-4 June 2013 [info]
- Register by 18 May 2013.

Publications:

Agreement Reached in National Class Action Lawsuit on Work Authorization for Asylum Seekers (ImmigrationProf Blog, April 2013) [text]

The Benefits of Granting Third Country Nationals Equal Rights to Work (ENARgy, April 2013) [text]
- From the European Network against Racism.

The Economic and Political Impact of Immigrants, Latinos and Asians State by State (Immigration Policy Center, Jan. 2012) [access]
- Note: Some state factsheets were updated May 2013.

How a Stateless Refugee Overcame Low Self-Esteem to Become a Successful Entrepreneur (Huffington Post, April 2013) [text]

"Immigration Reform Overlooks Asylum-seekers - Harsh Rules Enacted in 1996 Prevent Them from Working for Months or Years, Making Many Destitute," Los Angeles Times, 25 April 2013 [text]

The Plight of an Ethiopian Refugee Searching for Work in Nairobi (Refugee Work Rights, May 2013) [text]

Web sites:

Asylum Seeking and Work (ASAW) [access]
- "The main objective of ASAW is to raise the awareness of employment issues in the reception of asylum seekers in relation to the implementation of concerning EU directives."

Higher Advantage [access]
- A program of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) that "provides newcomer workforce solutions to corporations across the U.S. while supporting career entry and advancement for resettled refugees and other new Americans."

Tagged Events & Opportunities, Publications and Web Sites/Tools. 

This morning I’ve been Googling for sample survey questions that measure concepts that lots of academics are interested in. For example, I want some questions on my survey to measure social capital, and see no need to completely recreate the wheel. I found this World Bank document with ideas.  One sample question:

Which members of the community participate most in solving the issues facing the community? (then it asks for responses based on employment status, age etc.)

I’ve also been trying to incorporate questions from the World Bank Enterprise surveys for the purpose of comparability. For example, here’s one question I’m interested in from the Enterprise surveys:

To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Government officials’ interpretations of the laws and regulations affecting this establishment are consistent and predictable

Last month, however, I pre-tested a lot of questions like these with Nigerians, including specifically a version of this question about predictability. Uniformly, they did not work. Nigerians do not like to answer hypothetical and vague questions like these. “What laws and regulations?” every respondent asked. I am certain if I asked the social capital question respondents would say, “What issues are you talking about?”

Sometimes vague questions are too vague for anyone to provide an answer. But sometimes they are answerable. If one specified a level of government, the question about predictability is answerable. But, to generalize, Nigerians don’t talk like this. They are used to direct and specific questions.

As a result, questions in my survey about government predictability, for example, will be extremely specific. This will improve response validity, but will not allow me to compare responses to Enterprise surveys in Albania or Gabon. Sad.

Too many babies in Congo don't survive their first day of life.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/world/africa/africa-has-highest-rate-of-first-day-deaths-of-newborns-report-says.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y&_r=0

More than one million babies a year die the day they are born, and the 14 countries with the highest rates of first-day deaths are all in Africa, according to a report released on Tuesday.
The five countries with the highest rates of such deaths are Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic, according to the report, “Surviving the First Day,” from the aid group Save the Children.

“Health care for mothers in sub-Saharan Africa is woefully insufficient,” the report said. “On average, only half the women in the region receive skilled care during birth. The region as a whole has only 11 doctors, nurses and midwives per 10,000 people, less than half the critical threshold of 23 generally considered necessary to deliver essential health services.”

Read this quote today:

May I, too, celebrate the gospel wherever it rises. None of us will get all this right; better to herald the common places and extend the benefit of the doubt. God’s fingerprint is everywhere; none of us own the rights to His endorsement. If a believer on the opposite end of the ideological spectrum says something good and true, may I say without hesitation, “Amen.” I’m often afraid to identify with certain people lest I be labeled with their brand, but that is foolishness. The gospel is always beautiful, and I am not in singular possession of its power. That is so arrogant. May I bend my knee to Jesus wherever and in whomever He reigns.
(Jen Hatmaker, A Deeper Story )

Having benefited from grace, let us extend it.  

We went to the school yesterday and took pictures for the kids to color. We started with Grade 1 and 2. I managed to capture a few moments of the fun so I'll post them here.

This first picture isn't real sharp but it was the best of this boy (on the left) performing for the photo by stuffing crayons in his mouth.

He is one of my "best" Grade 1 friends. I've taken care of him a time or two at the clinic, and as a result, I have his undying love and devotion. When I go to the school, he is often the first one at the car door to grab me by the hand and walks everywhere with me. And if he can't do that, he carries my bag of supplies for me in and out of every classroom. Anyway, this seemed to be where the focus on crayons started.


Here I got a cute wrinkle-headed smile and and pointed at with crayons.


Then, a row of girls held up their crayons for the shot.


But that wasn't good enough, so they held them higher. (And I never did manage to focus on the crayon tip.)


Next row, same thing...


And so on





This little boy didn't bother. I guess he figured his winning smile was good enough :)

Kyra and Jackson helping out and catching the action on video.

The kids loved Sharon's attention!

Dwight helping distribute sweets and brightly colored pipe cleaners when they were all done.

There may be noise and dirt and goofing off and mayhem at times at the school, but you can't help but love these kids.

UNHCR info:

The Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Erika Feller, has retired.  Read a press release announcing her initial appointment in 2006, a Q&A with her on protection, and the text of her last speech to EXCOM.

Employment opportunities
- Currently, over 50 positions in the International Professional Staff category are open.  For more info., visit the relevant page, select "Click here to apply," then enter the code in order to access the job descriptions.

UNHCR Headquarters Organizational Structure (Geneva and Budapest) (UNHCR, April 2013) [access]

UNHCR’s Budget Process and Prioritization (UNHCR, April 2013) [access]

Analyses of UNHCR's work:

"Interactions et filiations entre organisations internationales autour de la question des réfugiés (1946-1956)," Relations internationales, no. 152 (2012) [abstract]

"Normalizing Exception: UNRWA, UNHCR and the Politics of Protection," Chapter in The Post-Conflict Environment: Intervention and Critique (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2013) [info]

Political Survival as a Motive in Decision-Making: The UNHCR and the Rwandan Refugee Crisis, Undergraduate Thesis (Univ. of Maryland, March 2013) [text]

"Regime Complexity and International Organizations: UNHCR as a Challenged Institution," Global Governance, vol. 19, no. 1 (Jan.-March 2013) [abstract]

The UNHCR and Angolan Liberation: 1974-1975, Global Migration Research Paper, no. 4 (Programme for the Study of Global Migration, 2013) [text]

Upcoming event:

UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs, Geneva, 11-13 June 2013 [info]
- The agenda is available, along with several background papers, regional overviews and general information.


Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Part-time Communications Assistant, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford [info]
- Apply by 9 May 2013.

Senior Humanitarian Policy Advisor, Oxfam, New York [info]
- Apply by 14 May 2013.

Legal Officer (Statelessness), UNHCR, Geneva [info]
- Apply by 16 May 2013. (Note: If link above is invalid, go to the "International Professional Staff" page, select "Click Here to Apply," and enter the code to access a list of available positions.)

Legal and Research Advisor, New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal, Auckland [info]
- Apply by 17 May 2013.

African Refugee Research Internship, African Refugee Development Center, Tel Aviv [info]
- Apply by 19 May 2013.

Country of Origin Information Portal Officer, European Asylum Support Office, Valletta, Malta [info]
- Apply by 31 May 2013.

Senior Librarian, Voluntary Service Overseas, Harare, Zimbabwe [info]
- Apply by 31 May 2013. Photo at right taken from Harare City Library Facebook page.

Tagged Events & Opportunities.

CFPs:

Tilburg Law Review [info]
- Special issue on statelessness; submit abstract by 1 June 2013.

New issues:

Cairo Review of Global Affairs, no. 9 (Spring 2013) [full-text]
- Focus is on "Humanity on the Move"; includes articles on refugee research, refugees in the Middle East, Syrian refugees, Palestinian refugees, human trafficking in Egypt, Iraqi displacement, displacement in the DRC, drought displaced, and the Vietnamese diaspora.

Criminologie, vol. 46 (2013) [contents]
- Theme is "La criminalisation de l'immigration"; includes articles on asylum, the detention of asylum-seekers and human trafficking.

Development in Practice, vol. 23, no. 3 (2013) [contents]
- Mix of articles.

EASO Newsletter (April 2013) [full-text via EASO Monitor]
- News and information from the European Asylum Support Office.  The first two articles discuss country of origin information developments.

Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 37 (May 2013) [full-text]
- News and information for refugee legal aid providers.
Forced Migration Review, no. 42 (April 2013) [open access text]
- Theme is "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and the Protection of Forced Migrants"; see also related IRIN news story.

Relations Internationales, nos. 151 & 152 (2012) [Part 1 contents] [Part 2 contents]
- Two-part focus on "Organisations internationales et ONG: coopération, rivalité, complémentarité de 1919 à nos jours." Read the introduction for more information.  Several articles discuss refugee assistance organizations.

The Researcher, vol. 8, no. 1 (April 2013) [full-text]
- From the Refugee Documentation Centre in Ireland; includes articles on the 1933 Refugee Convention, interpretation in the asylum process, rape in India, the Rohingya, and the concept of discrimination.

Watch for:

Humanitarian Exchange, no. 57 (May 2013) [info]
- Forthcoming issue on South Sudan.

Tagged Periodicals and Events & Opportunities. 

Funding:

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration is offering a number of funding opportunities with May deadlines.  Check out the list available on their web site.

Events & opportunities:

Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism in a Refugee Camp, Oxford, 14 May 2013 [info]

The Human Trace: The Rise of Humanitarian Remote Management, Copenhagen, 16 May 2013 [info]
- Register by 15 May 2013.

New Directions in Resettlement: Implications for Refugees and the Settlement Sector, Webinar, 15 May 2013 [info]
- Note: This Webinar was re-scheduled from 26 March 2013. Free event but registration is required.

Saving the World: Does Faith-based Humanitarian Aid Deliver Relief or Redemption?, New York, 15 May 2013 [info]

UNHCR Award for Statelessness Research [info]
- Nomination deadline extended to 22 May 2013.

Bhutanese Refugee Re-settlement Workshop, London, 22-23 May 2013 [info]
- Free event but registration is required.

The (Mis)treatment of Eritrean and Sudanese Asylum Seekers in Israel, Oxford, 28 May 2013 [info]

Related post:
- Events & Opportunities: Last Minute April/More May 2013 

Tagged Events & Opportunities.  

Changes to existing web sites:

AlertNet [access]
- As of 23 April 2013, AlertNet was folded into Trust.org; for more info., watch the video.

Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers [access]
- New URL and look and feel.

Human Security Gateway [info]
- This service has been discontinued; its contents will be transferred to the World Bank's The Hive (see below).

Refworld [access]
- New and improved version launched in mid-April; here's the press release.

New sites/resources:

The Hive: A Knowledge Platform on Fragility, Conflict and Violence [access]
- "Provides both an online and face-to-face communication platform for the community of practice working on these issues to share and build knowledge."

JIPS Essential Toolkit (JET) [access]
- "Aims to support good practices in profiling exercises."

Road to Refuge [access]
- "An interactive website about asylum seekers and refugees that allows the user to step into their shoes and make the impossible decisions along their journey from home to Australia."  See also Facebook page.

Women Working in Aid and Development [access]
- Blog established to give women "a forum that they could go to to discuss their experiences in the sector."

Tagged Web Sites/Tools.

Opportunities:

UNHCR Award for Statelessness Research [info]
- Nomination deadline extended to 22 May 2013.

CFP: Tilburg Law Review [info]
- Special issue on statelessness; submit abstract by 1 June 2013.

Publications:

Addressing the Human Insecurity of Stateless People: Complementing our Legal Advocacy with a Development Approach (ENS Blog, May 2013) [text]

Addressing Statelessness in the Western Balkans – ENS and WeBLAN Joint Workshop (ENS Blog, April 2013) [text]

"All You Can Do is Pray": Crimes against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma's Arakan State (Human Rights Watch, April 2013) [text]

Greg Constantine Talks @ Pulitzer [access]
- Discusses the In Search of Home e-book.

Is Nationality Always Relevant? – Reflections on Time Spent with a Lahu Community in Northern Thailand (Statelessness Programme Blog, May 2013) [text]

"Stateless in the United States: Current Reality and a Future Prediction," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 46, no. 2 (2013) [full-text]

Statelessness: The Core of the Palestinian Issue, Washington, DC, 2 May 2013 [info] [access]

"Statelessness in International Law: A Historic Overview," DAJV Newsletter, no. 3 (2012) [full-text]
- Select 3/2012 from the list of issues.

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Opportunity:

FY 2013 Funding Opportunity Announcement for NGO Programs Benefiting Refugees, Internally Displaced, and Stateless Persons in the South Caucasus [info]
- Proposal submission deadline is 30 May 2013.

Publications:

"20 Years of Internal Displacement in Georgia: The International and the Personal," Forced Migration Review 25th Anniversary Collection (April 2013) [open access text]

Comments by the UNHCR Regional Representation for the Baltic and Nordic Countries on the Finnish Ministry of Justice's Proposal for Amendments to the Criminal Code's Provision on Arrangement of Illegal Immigration (UNHCR, March 2013) [text]

End Forced Evictions of Roma in Europe (Amnesty International, April 2013) [text via Refworld]

In Search of Normality: Refugee Integration in Scotland (Scottish Refugee Council, March 2013) [text]

"The Last Frontier of Globalization: Asylum and Citizenship in the Netherlands," Macalester International, vol. 30 (2012) [full-text]

New Case Law Developments in Removal and Extradition (ECHR Blog, April 2013) [text]

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Excerpts from an article on the connection between religion and cars in Nigeria, by Ebenezer Obadare, a sociologist at University of Kansas: [hat tip to Cat]

In Lagos, Nigeria, though, the social and physical circumstances which enable communing while commuting seem radically different. When traffic grinds to a complete halt as is its wont in the city (a normal Lagos “go slow” can last between three and five hours), the commuter faces the severest test of all: what to do with the suddenly abundant time at his or her disposal. In-traffic communion often unfolds in this situation of baffled boredom; where an ordinarily desperate situation becomes a moment for sustained reflection, and anarchic time becomes an opportunity for “quiet time.”

[...]

As fatalities from car accidents have grown, prayers for protection from the dangers of the road have become louder and persistent. The prayer, “Ka ma rin ni ojo ti ebi n p’ona” (May we not travel on the very day that the road is famished) carries an added resonance against a backdrop of endemic auto-mortality. The unusually high frequency of road traffic accidents is attested to by the following anecdote from Kathryn Rhine in a presentation in 2011, who reports that “during a recent fieldwork among HIV-positive persons in Nigeria, patients would insist that their virus was not going to kill them; rather, they would likely die in a car accident.”

Speaking of Kathryn Rhine, an anthropologist at University of Kansas, she has a new blog with thoughts from her fieldwork, which is on how Nigerians understand car accidents. She calls her project “Cultures of Collision.”

I need to get some of this stuff out of my head to make some space in there for my actual day job. Since the clusterfuck David Goodhart book-copy-and-pastes op-eds started coming out a few weeks ago my head has been all fogged up with rage. Half of the frustration is simply how poorly he structures his arguments.

So here is some structure.

At the highest level there are two things to care about
1. The impact of policy (this is the utilitarian, consequentialist angle)
2. The Kantian ethics (what is a just process? we should care about the means as well as the ends)

Point 2, made repeatedly by Michael Clemens and others in the open borders camp, is that regardless of what the consequences of immigration are, individuals have rights, and states shouldn't be able to prevent people from leaving countries. As a Brit with some education, I have the right basically to live wherever I want. The same does not apply to smarter and harder working people than me who happen to be born in South Sudan, or most developing countries. In technical terms, this is called "fucked up."

Back to point 1 - there are three areas of concern
1.1 - The impact on the receiving community
1.2 - The impact on the migrant
1.3 - The impact on the sending community

Now, the strongest evidence is clearly on 1.2 - there are massive overwhelming positive impacts for the migrants themselves, who can increase incomes by orders of 1000% overnight.

The weakest evidence is on the other two points. There are reasons, theoretical and empirical, to think that immigration can have both positive and negative impacts on communities at large.

On 1.1 - perhaps the strongest evidence amongst the lot, is that the labour market impacts on receiving communities are not large (they did not took our job). There isn't a lot of evidence on the impact on public services and the like - though on average the foreign-born living in Britain are larger net contributors to public finances than the native born. So we are left with something vague about identity and community (more on this in another post).

On 1.3 - there is strong evidence of positive impact through remittances - remittances are substantially larger than foreign aid flows. There isn't much evidence of a brain drain, and actually evidence pointing the other way towards a "brain gain." Neither is there any evidence of a damaging impact on political reform. On the contrary, there are reasons to think that diaspora can help fund and influence reform movements more effectively from outside a country where they are not subject to political oppression. More from Claire Melamed here.

So to conclude, strong positive evidence of positive impacts for migrants and receivers of remittances, and then a bunch of weak vague stuff about community and governance. Add to that, the ethical or rights-based arguments.

And finally back to Goodhart, and his line that we should not care about people from Burundi more than people from Birmingham. But do we really need to care about them more to be in favour of immigration? From my reading of the evidence, I don't think that immigration does impose a net cost on Britain, but even being generous and assuming it did, I would weight that impact to be of the order of 1/10th of the positive impact to the migrant. Caring about people from Birmingham is fine, but the question is how much more should you care about them than someone from Burundi. I would image that there is some ratio at which Goodhart would support imposing a cost on a Brummie for a gain to a Burundian. What if we could make a Brummie worse off by £1 to increase the welfare of a Burundian by £10 billion? Or is it really never acceptable for British government policy to reduce the welfare of a British person by any amount, no matter how small, in order to increase a foreigner's welfare, no matter how large the gain? Not even for £10 billion? Martin Wolf does make the case for a zero weight, which is at least a coherent and explicit position on the issue, even if I do think it is abhorrent. Elsewhere, in a long and math-y blogpost YouNotSneaky estimated that for Mexican-US immigration, you have to value a Mexican at less than 1/20th of an American to be against immigration.

Do you care about foreigners less than locals? What's your number? Exactly how much less? Are foreigners half a local person? A tenth? A hundredth?

Some analysis from the Sudd Institute: (via John Ashworth)
Barely three months after the oil shutdown, the whole nation started to feel the resultant pinch of economic hardships. Salaries of civil servants were no longer coming regularly and the monthly allowances that used to cushion up the low salaries of the civil servants were discontinued. The dollar appreciated against the South Sudanese pounds and was in unprecedented shortage, forcing the market into an abrupt shock; prices rose; and the purchasing power weakened. As well, violent crimes increased, with armed robbery becoming the order of the day. News about common citizens and business people being shot dead injured, and/or robbed were making headlines on almost daily basis. In a sense, these consequences are attributable to the economic hardships facing the nation.

We were supposed to have our monthly health worker meeting today but two of the health workers couldn't make it so we postponed it until Thursday. While we were all sitting around chatting, the topic of typing came up because a new health worker needs to learn computer skills. I drew a diagram of a keyboard and he filled in the keys he could remember. He did well considering he's only on day 3. We then went on to discuss what QWERTY means and how cell phone dial pads differ. I thought this may help him a bit as he learns to type. Mostly, it's just kind of interesting to me.


From keyboard layouts, we went on to discuss dog bites (which we've seen recently), rabies and tetanus. Although we've all learned about these conditions, no one has ever actually seen someone with rabies or tetanus. There are only pictures or rough sketches in medical textbooks. So I had a novel idea...look up videos on youtube. There are a surprising number of videos of actual rabies cases, considerably fewer of tetanus cases, but still, enough to get a good visual so it would be recognized more quickly if ever witnessed. These aren't fun to watch, but the essential things in life aren't always fun. They do tend to be very useful, however.

My other task (while Bob and Dwight had a meeting, Kyra painted ox carts, Jackson worked on Joao's roof, and Sharon did laundry) was to figure out just how to merge a Word document with an Access database table. This is a huge learning curve for me, and oh how I dislike huge learning curves while I'm going through them! If I can't figure out the merge procedure, Kyra and I will be doing lots of hand printing of preschooler and Grade 1 kids' names on their artwork pages tomorrow before heading to the school to get them working on them! I'm thinking close to 100 names--that's lots of writing. So pray my mind can wrap its way around this learning curve real fast. Don't suppose QWERTY knowledge will help with this one.

A seemingly ordinary footnote, until one realizes that North is one of the paper’s authors.

Mancur Olson’s (1993) roving and stationary bandits and Douglass North’s (1981) revenue maximizing monarchs are at the center of the two most persuasive attempts to explain the interrelated behavior of economies and polities. With all due respect, we submit that modeling the state as a single actor is inherently flawed. Unless we understand the dynamics of relationships within the organization of the state, we can never understand the interrelationship of politics and economics.

We help Rita from Kyrgyzstan to expand her livestock

Nicaragua, Tanzania, Philippines, Georgia, Senegal, Congo, Rwanda, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Mali, Bolivia, Burundi, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Ghana, Armenia, Peru, and Azerbaijan.

That’s 20 countries.

That’s how many countries our new Kiva loans went to, today. Most of the entrepreneurs we lend to, are women working in agriculture.

You might think I am a half-millionaire to allocate US$3,475 of new loans in one go. However, these were all repayments from previously allocated loans. Re-investing in people, to help themselves…

People like Rita from a village called “Semenovka”, in Kyrgyzstan. Rita is 44 years old and a widow, raising her daughter single-handedly.
She works as a cook at a boarding house, but also has her own livestock.
With her micro finance loan, she wants to buy more cows so she can sell the milk, providing her with extra income to further expand her business, and to refurbish her house.

Here are all the loans we allocated today:

• Myriam Esther in Nicaragua: $50.00
• Mt. Livingstone Group in Tanzania: $50.00
• Erlinda in Philippines: $50.00
• Eter in Georgia: $50.00
• Mame Bousso’s Group in Senegal: $25.00
• La Lumiere 1 Group in Congo: $25.00
• Nueva Esperanza Group in Nicaragua: $25.00
• Djison Couture Group in Senegal: $25.00
• El Triunfo Group in Nicaragua: $25.00
• Twibumbirehamwe Group in Rwanda: $25.00
• Hamidi in Lebanon: $50.00
• Odbayar in Mongolia: $50.00
• Aigul in Kyrgyzstan: $50.00
• Khursheedan in Pakistan: $50.00
• Gnesouma Group in Mali: $100.00
• Asha in Kenya: $50.00
• Faiza in Yemen: $50.00
• Kurmanbubu in Kyrgyzstan: $50.00
• Bunsat’s Group in Cambodia: $50.00
• Vilma Del Carmen in Nicaragua: $50.00
• Rosas Blancas Group in Bolivia: $100.00
• Kadiatou Alpha’s Group in Senegal: $100.00
• Sol Brillante Group in Bolivia: $100.00
• Natalya in Ukraine: $50.00
• Twizere Ii Group in Burundi: $100.00
• Sameur’s Group in Cambodia: $100.00
• Eustalia in Philippines: $50.00
• Rosalia in Peru: $50.00
• Beatriz in Mexico: $50.00
• Mayra in Costa Rica: $50.00
• Julia Sonia in Peru: $50.00
• Salama in Kenya: $50.00
• Iljas in Albania: $50.00
• Atyrbubu in Kyrgyzstan: $50.00
• Moy in Cambodia: $50.00
• Heang’s Group in Cambodia: $50.00
• Flor Naciente Group in Bolivia: $75.00
• Francisca in Philippines: $75.00
• Herriet’s Group in Ghana: $75.00
• Gohar in Armenia: $50.00
• Heghine in Armenia: $50.00
• Thang in Cambodia: $50.00
• Nune in Armenia: $50.00
• Rita in Kyrgyzstan: $50.00
• Ángel in Colombia: $50.00
• Sokheng’s Group in Cambodia: $100.00
• Sitha’s Group in Cambodia: $50.00
• Melodina in Philippines: $50.00
• Alita in Armenia: $50.00
• San Antonio De Jicamarca Group in Peru: $100.00
• Emma in Armenia: $50.00
• Huoch’s Group in Cambodia: $100.00
• Kanchaiym in Kyrgyzstan: $50.00
• Aijan in Kyrgyzstan: $50.00
• Bais in Kyrgyzstan: $50.00
• Thoeun’s Group in Cambodia: $100.00
• Jamila in Azerbaijan: $50.00
• Met’s Group in Cambodia: $50.00
• Sveta in Kyrgyzstan: $50.00
• Mtamakulanga Group in Tanzania: $100.00

Come and join our Kiva team!

Events & opportunities:

Saving the World: Does Faith-based Humanitarian Aid Deliver Relief or Redemption?, New York, 15 May 2013 [info]
- Free and open to the public.

FY 2013 Funding Opportunity Announcement for Research Projects to Strengthen Evidence-Based Humanitarian Decision Making by PRM and its Partners Worldwide [info]
- Proposal submission deadline is 30 May 2013.

Publications:

A Call for Evidence-based Decision-making in Humanitarian Response (ALNAP Forum, April 2013) [text]

Hugo Slim: Legal and Ethical to Pursue Cross-Border Humanitarian Aid (Global Observatory, April 2013) [access]

"Humanitarian Workers Unprepared for Decades of Conflict, Warns UNHCR," The Guardian, 30 April 2013 [text]

"Improving Humanitarian Coordination: Common Challenges and Lessons Learned from the Cluster Approach," Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (April 2013) [full-text]

*International Legal Frameworks for Humanitarian Action: Topic Guide (Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, March 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Many Meanings of Humanitarianism (Debating Development, March 2013) [text]

*updated

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

Event:

The Deportation of Unaccompanied Minors from the EU: Family-tracing and Government Accountability in the European Return Platform for Unaccompanied Minors (ERPUM) Project, Oxford, 3 May 2013 [info]
- Taking place today!  View the remainder of the workshop online through the livestream.

Publications:

Childhood under Fire: The Impact of Two Years of Conflict in Syria (Save the Children, March 2013) [text]

Children on the Move (IOM, April 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Fractured Childhoods: The Separation of Families by Immigration Detention (Bail for Immigration Detainees, April 2013) [text via Migrants' Rights Network]

"The Kids before Khadr: Haitian Refugee Children on Guantanamo [A Comment on Richard J. Wilson's Omar Khadr: Domestic and International Litigation Strategies for a Child in Armed Conflict Held at Guantanamo]," Santa Clara Journal of International Law, vol. 11, no. 1 (2012) [full-text]

Mortality among Populations of Southern and Central Somalia Affected by Severe Food Insecurity and Famine during 2010-2012 (FEWS Net, May 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]
- "Half of deaths were children under five."

World Report on Child Labour: Economic Vulnerability, Social Protection and the Fight against Child Labour (ILO, April 2013) [text via ReliefWeb]

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities.