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Report from Consultations held in Mizoram, North East India in November 2008

      A four day consultation and four training courses were held with men and women from Chin State, Burma currently existing in Aizwal, the capital one of       the north eastern Indian states, Mizoram. The consultations took place over 2 weeks. This report will be taken to UNHCR in Geneva this month (June  2009).

     The report can be downloaded here

Report from Consultations held in New Delhi November 2007

There are approximately 2000 refugees from Burma registered with UNHCR and an estimated 70 000 more unregistered refugees from Burma in India. In November 2007, a group of 38 refugee women from these groups, and from refugee settlements in Mizoram and Manipur attended 8 days of training in New Delhi. The work focused on documenting human rights abuses, and the potential of using United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 as part of their advocacy work. 14 men from the community attended a simultaneous training on gender roles and human rights. The training was organised by the Women’s League of Burma, and was facilitated by the Centre for Refugee Research, the University of New South Wales, Australia.

The report from New Delhi can be downloaded here

     ARRA Papers 2008

  ARRA Main Report 2008 available here

ARRA Children of Rape - Breaking the Silence: Women and Girls At Risk and Children of Rape - Rebecca Eckert and Jennie Hofling

ARRA Bride Wealth - Briefing note on Southern Sudanese Women the Institution of Bride Wealth - Sarah Shteir
ARRA Congo Paper - Women at Risk in Congo - Nava Malula, Liliane Lukoki and Melissa Barden

ARRA Mainstreaming - Gender Mainstreaming - Shamilla Bargon
ARRA Statelessness - Responses to Statelessness - Susan Banki (Griffith University)
ARRA Strategic Resettlement - Strategic use of Resettlement - Graham Thom (AI) and Susan Banki (Griffith University)
ARRA Education as Protection - Education as a Protection Measure - Clare Thompson

ARRA Livelihoods - Livelihoods and Protection - Phillipa Curran
ARRA Implementing UNHCR's 10-Point Plan on the Asylum-Migration Nexus in the Asia Pacific - Anna Samson, Jodie Kidd, James Thompson

ARRA Residual Liberian Refugee Population in Buduburam, Ghana - Erinch Sahan

June 2007: Refugee Youth and Resettlement

A paper by Elin Thorell, Intern CRR 2007

19 August 2005 : The submission by the Centre for Refugee Research

to the Senate Inquiry into the Administration and Operation of the

Migration Act 1958 can be downloaded here. Senate Submission

Diagrammatical representations of the Australian Asylum Seeker and Refugee Advocacy Movement is available here. (Intellectual property rights of Diane Gosden) (a simplified version available here).

   17 August 2005:
   Abstract of paper from Diane Gosden presented at “Other Worlds:
   Social Movements and the Making of Alternatives” conference at
   the University of Technology Sydney in April 2005.

   'Forthcoming publication with other conference papers in the January 2006 edition of Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, Vol. 3, No.1.     Abstract here

    Refugee Women and Stories of Sexual Violence: Agents in Their
    Victimisation? Bachelor Essay by Helene Louise Friis Ratner
    can be downloaded here

On Saturday 8th May 2005, Dr Pittaway was featured in an ABC Radio Documentary from the Radio Eye program "Spoils of War". Click here to either read the transcript or listen to the program.

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