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:

• The original author and source of the work is maintained
• The material cannot be resold for commercial gain
• Any modifications to the original must be freely shared and marked

These changes are open for public discussion; we’d like to hear from people who contribute to the RRN site or are planning to. It is the author’s right to define the way their work is re-distributed; any author can choose an approach different from the site-wide proposed RRN policy. For more information on alternate distribution licenses please see the excellent Creative Commons explanation and tools. Or feel free to contact me for for any specific questions.

– Evan

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. Though official propaganda slogans promote the program as an overwhelmingly positive experience for these women, less than two years after the initiation of the policy, it has already left a history of broken promises and shattered families. In interviews recorded by film-maker Simon James, between September 2008 and July 2009, four experts talk about the impact this programme is having: * Dr. Michael Dillon, visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing * Omer Kanat, Uyghur Service at Radio Free Asia * Amy Reger, Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) * Enver Tohti, chairman of the UK Uighur Association The podcast ‘Relocation of Young Uyghur Women in China’ is now available on Forced Migration Online: http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/uyghur-women/ FMO Podcasts: Forced Migration Online offers a collection of audio podcasts that can be downloaded for free and listened to either on your computer or on the move (http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/). The podcast series includes lectures from forced migration events and discussions between experts on forced migration issues from academia, practitioner organizations and international agencies. Also increasingly the series features interviews with refugees and other displaced people. The podcasts are in MP3 audio format. On your computer you can either use just a web browser (such as Firefox or Internet Explorer), your default multimedia software such as (QuickTime, Windows Media Player or RealPlayer) or dedicated podcast aggregator software. The version for iTunes is synchronised with the slides of the lecture. The software can be downloaded at http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

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 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. Persons who have well-documented examples of experiences of insecurity of refugees in Rwanda are encouraged to send these to me at Barbara@fahamu.org, marked CONFIDENTIAL. These will be used to assist a group of judges to build a cdase against the signing of the cessation clause, Anyother use of the information received will be redacted so as to protect the anonimity of the individual named. Thank you. Barbara Harrell-Bond

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.

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.

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