policy

AG Reviewing Controversial "Neighborhood Conservation District" in Brookline

March 19, 2012 14:00

In November, 2011, the Town of Brookline, at a Special Town Meeting, approved two articles that would amend the Town’s general bylaws by adding provisions enabling the creation of Neighborhood Conservation Districts (NCDs) and establishing the Hancock Village NCD as the first...

Focus on Human Trafficking

March 16, 2012 18:43

Counter-Trafficking in Persons Policy (USAID, Feb. 2012) [text]An Evidence Assessment of the Routes of Human Trafficking into the UK (UK Home Office, March 2012) [text]Guidelines for Assisting Victims of Human Trafficking in the East Africa Region (IOM, Feb. 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]Incorporating...

Documenting Migrant Deaths at Sea

March 16, 2012 15:57

UNHCR reported recently that 1500 people "drowned or went missing last year [2011] while attempting crossings of the Mediterranean Sea." The actual number may be even higher; a spokesperson for the agency noted that "Our estimates are based on interviews with people who reached Europe on boats,...

EU Developments

March 13, 2012 15:18

Common EU Resettlement Priorities for 2013 and New Rules on EU Funding (Council of the European Union, March 2012) [text]Council Conclusions on a Common Framework for Genuine and Practical Solidarity towards Member States Facing Particular Pressures on their Asylum Systems, including through Mixed...

New Issue of JRS

March 08, 2012 16:58

The Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) has published its first issue of 2012. Articles in vol. 25, no. 1 (March 2012) include:Forcing the Issue: Migration Crises and the Uneasy Dialogue between Refugee Research and Policy [abstract]UK Dispersal Policy and Onward Migration: Mapping the Current State...