‘Asylum, Migration and Humanitarian Action‘ is a collection of 14 papers written by Jeff Crisp, Head of UNHCR’s Policy Development and Evaluation Service.
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Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses
In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans — one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world — Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities.
View the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/education/harvard-and-mit-team-up-to-offer-free-online-courses.html?_r=1&hp
Academic spring: how an angry maths blog sparked a scientific revolution
How a Cambridge mathematician’s protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/frustrated-blogpost-boycott-scientific-journals
Wellcome Trust joins ‘academic spring’ to open up science
Wellcome backs campaign to break stranglehold of academic journals and allow all research papers to be shared free online.
Link to article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust-academic-spring
Kony 2012: Powerful Viral Video and Social Networking Campaign to Stop Joseph Kony
Wow. Just…wow. Some interesting discussions on the RRN Facebook page – www.facebook.com/groups/30614536012/
CBC Metro Morning Podcast: Course for Refugees
Matt Galloway spoke with Robin Roth, she is a professor of geography at York University, and with Ei Phyu Han, she is a PhD student and a teaching assistant at York. They were speaking about a geography course taught at the university, that is also offered to refugees living on the Thai-Burma border.
The podcast can be found here: http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2012/02/22/course-for-refugees/
Lecture: An Italian Renaissance: Jewish Refugees in Postwar Europe
The Fourth Annual Howard Adelman Lecture was recently held in Toronto, Canada on November 1, 2011 with guest speaker Robert Rubinstein, author of An Italian Renaissance: Choosing Life in Canada, Winner of the 2011 Canadian Jewish Book Award, in the category of Holocaust Literature.
A beautifully delivered talk on being a Jewish refugee in an Italian camp after the Second World War. As you listen, you realise that not much has changed over the last 60+ years in how camps are run, camp inhabitants treated, and how people try to cope in bureaucratic and sometimes unwelcoming administrations.
View the video HERE
Historic vote extends EU asylum standards to transgender people
Today the European Parliament formally adopted a new set of asylum rules for the European Union. The binding rules now include gender identity as a ground of persecution, which EU Member States must take into account. Governments have already agreed to the changes, which are final.
For more information, visit: http://www.lgbt-ep.eu/press-releases/historic-vote-extends-eu-asylum-standards-to-transgender-people/
TEDxParis 2010: Sarah Kaminsky – My father the forger
Blog post from Dadaab
Received this blog about Dadaab from the refugee perspective: A Voice from the Voiceless – Dadaab Refugee Camps Kenya