Being without news
from family members is a source of
stress and worry for many new arrivals.
Portable satellite phones are provided
to enable refugees to contact their
relatives. Stankovac 1 reception site,
Brazde, Macedonia.
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Current news is important for monitoring
an unfolding humanitarian crisis, surveying
conflict trends, tracking the treatment
of forced migrants, and following legal
and policy developments. The online resources
highlighted below are updated daily or weekly
and provide international or regional coverage.
In addition, they either report specifically
on disasters and complex emergencies, refugee/IDP
situations, migration, and/or conflict/peace/security,
or more broadly, on development and social
justice issues. Also included are references
to discussion fora, more comprehensive news
sources, and services that offer free newsfeeds.
See also: Country
Information Resources.
Refugees/IDPs
- IDP
news alert (IDMC, Brookings-SAIS
Project on Internal Displacement)
- IRR news (Institute
of Race Relations)
- News (United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees)
- World
refugee (World News Network)
Disasters/Emergencies
Migration
Conflict/Peace/Security
General
Mailing Lists/Discussion Groups/Other Fora
- Discussion/e-mail lists:
- Members register and receive relevant news and information postings directly in their e-mail inboxes. A web-based archive of posted messages is often available. JISCMail is a UK-based mailing list service provider. Examples of lists:
- Discussion/web boards:
- Web-based forum for exchanging ideas and sharing information. A more suitable format for engaging in a real-time discussion. Often web boards include an e-mail component to alert users to pertinent postings. Yahoo hosts a space for establishing discussion groups. Examples of discussion boards:
- Blogs:
- Described as public diaries or web journals, these web pages can be created by people with no technical knowledge. Many allow visitors to add comments and share information. Set up your own blog at Blogger.com. Examples of blogs:
- Wikis:
- Collaborative web sites that allow registered users to add to or edit existing
web pages. See Seed
Wiki for more information. Example:
News Search Engines/Portals
To supplement the resources above, see:
- Google News - http://news.google.com/
- Use this news search engine and portal to locate additional news items;
4500 news sources are crawled regularly and current headlines are generated
automatically. Stories are archived for 30 days. Google News also provides
international editions for a number of different countries in a variety of languages. Scroll to the bottom of the news homepage to view the options available.
(For more news search engines, see: http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156261).
- Yahoo News Directory – http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/
- Browse here for links to national/regional newspapers or follow the link
to Yahoo’s news search engine. Country- and language-specific Yahoo editions are available at http://world.yahoo.com/
Free Newsfeeds
A number of relevant newsfeeds are available for incorporating into web sites
and intranets; see, e.g., the following:
- ELDIS – http://www.eldis.org/go/newsfeeds
- For a relevant example, see http://www.euforic.org/by_theme/137.htm.
- GlobalInfo.org – http://www.globalinfo.org/eng/webmaster_tools.asp
- Describes itself as a “daily news service of the developing world.”
- IRR - http://www.irr.org.uk/content/index.html
- Focuses on race relations and refugees in the UK and Europe.
- Moreover.com – http://www.moreover.com
- For a relevant example, see http://www.asylumlaw.org.
- Pambazuka - http://www.pambazuka.org/newsfeed.php
- Focuses on social justice issues in Africa.
- FMO - http://www.forcedmigration.org
- FMO has incorporated headlines from several RSS newsfeeds onto its homepage. Visit FMO to read news and information from the Forced Migration Discussion List, UNHCR, IDMC, ReliefWeb, and the Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog.
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