Resources
Information on Disasters:
-Definition: Sphere Project.
-Examples: International Federation of the Red Cross/ Red Crescent.
Information on Complex Emergencies:
-Definition: OCHA. OCHA Orientation Handbook on Complex Emergencies.
1999
-Examples: Reliefweb.
Information on Phases of a Crisis:
-Information on what is forced migration and types of forced migrants: Forced Migration Online.
Information on international humanitarian law:
-ICRC.
Information on refugee law:
-UNHCR.
Information on the demography of refugees today:
-United States Committee for Refugees. World Refugee Survey.
-UNHCR.
Information on leading causes of mortality and morbidity among
forced migrants:
-Toole, MJ and Waldman, RJ. “Prevention of Excess Mortality
in Refugee and Displaced Populations in Developing Countries.” JAMA. 263(24): 3296-3302, 1990.
-Toole MJ and Waldman, RJ. “Refugees and Displaced Persons.” JAMA. 270(5): 600-605, 1993.
-Toole, MJ. and Waldman, RJ. “The public health aspects
of complex emergencies and refugee situations.” Annual Review
of Public Health. 18: 283-312, 1997.
-WHO.
Nutrition-specific information:
-Emergency nutrition network online.
Information of variabilities across refugee situations:
-Toole, MJ. and Waldman, RJ. “The public health aspects
of complex emergencies and refugee situations.” Annual Review
of Public Health. 18: 283-312, 1997.
Information on standard responses to a humanitarian crisis:
-The Sphere Project Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards
in Disaster Response, 2004.
-UNHCR. Handbook for Emergencies (Second Edition). Geneva: United
Nations High Commissioner For Refugees, 2000.
-Medecins Sans Frontieres. Refugee Health: An approach to emergency
situations. London: Macmillian Education Ltd., 1997.
Reproductive health-specific:
-UNFPA.
-Krause, SK, Jones, RK, Purdin, S. “Programmatic Responses
to Refugees’ Reproductive Health Needs.” International
Family Planning Perspectives. 26(4): 181-187, 2000
-RHRC Consortium.
Information on the major topics in current humanitarian discourse:
-Slim, H. “Doing the Right Thing: Relief Agencies, Moral
Dilemmas, and Moral Responsibility in Political Emergencies and
War.” (1997) Disasters. 21( 3): 244-257.
-Salama,P. Laurence B., Nolan ML. “Health and Human Rights
in Contemporary Humanitarian Crises: Is Kosovo More Important than
Sierra Leone? BMJ. 319(7224): 1569-71.
General Resourses
CBC: Anatomy of a Refugee Camp
UNFPA: Women War Health
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