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An on-line archive of
humanitarian, human rights and development reference documents
Global
Environment Outlook 3 (GEO): Past, Present and Future
Perspectives
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), August 2002
Africa Environment
Outlook: Past, Present and Future Perspectives
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), August 2002
Living
With Risk - A Global Review of Disaster Reduction Initiatives
[pdf format]
UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, August 2002
Gender
Mainstreaming in Peace Support Operations: Moving beyond
rhetoric to practice [pdf format]
Women Peace Building Programme, International
Alert, July 2002
Human
Development Report 2002 [2723
KB - pdf
format]
United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), July 2002
National
Human Rights
Commissions and
Internally
Displaced
Persons -
Illustrated by
the Sri Lankan
Experience
[pdf format]
The Brookings -
SAIS Project on
Internal
Displacement, July 2002
25
Questions and
Answers on
Health &
Human Rights
[pdf format]
World Health
Organization
(WHO), July 2002
Report
of the InterAction Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation of
Displaced Children [pdf format]
InterAction, July 2002
HIV
and Conflict: A Double Emergency [pdf format]
Save the Children UK, July 2002
Children,
Education and War: Reaching Education For All (EFA) Objectives
in Countries Affected by Conflict [pdf format]
by Marc Sommers
World Bank, June 2002
Economic,
Social and
Cultural Rights:
The Return of
Refugees' or
Displaced
Persons'
Property
(E.CN.4/Sub.2/2002/17)
[pdf format]
By Paulo Sérgio
Pinheiro
UN Commission on
Human Rights,
June 2002
World
Refugee Survey 2002
U.S. Committee for Refugees, June 2002
The
Millennium Development Goals in Africa: Promises & Progress [pdf format]
United Nations Development Programme/UNICEF, June 2002
World
Disasters Report 2002: Focus on Reducing Risk
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, June 2002
2001
UNHCR Population Statistics (provisional) [pdf format]
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, June 2002
SIPRI
Yearbook 2002: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security [pdf format]
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, June 2002
UNHCR
Policy on Refugee Women and Guidelines on Their Protection:
An Assessment of Ten Years of Implementation [pdf format]
Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, May 2002
Report
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (E/2002/14) [pdf format]
UN Economic and Social Council, Substantive Session of 2002, May 2002
A
World Fit for Children: Official Outcome Document of UN Special Session on
Children [pdf format]
UNICEF, May 2002
Amnesty
International Report 2002
Amnesty International, May 2002
State
of the World's Mothers 2002 [pdf format]
Save the Children, May 2002
If not now, when? Addressing gender-based violence in refugee, internally displaced, and post-conflict settings [pdf format]
The Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium, April 2002
An
External Review of the CAP [pdf format]
By Toby Porter
Commissioned by OCHA's Evaluation and Studies Unit, April 2002
Sustaining
Hope in a Changing World - "ECHO 2001" [pdf
format]
European Commission - Humanitarian Aid Office, April 2002
Unseen
Millions: The Catastrophe of Internal Displacement in Colombia [pdf format]
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, March 2002
Giving
voice to silent emergencies
By Anna Jefferys
Humanitarian Exchange (Humanitarian Practice Network), March 2002
US
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2001
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
US Department of State, March 2002
Depleted
Uranium in Serbia and Montenegro - Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment in the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [pdf
format]
United Nations Environment Programme, March 2002
Swept
Under: Torture, Forced Disappearances, and Extrajudicial Killings During Sweep
Operations in Chechnya [pdf format]
Human Rights Watch, Vol. 14, No. 2 (D), February 2002
Reducing
Poverty and Hunger: The Critical Role of Financing for Food, Agriculture and
Rural Development [pdf format]
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/International Fund for
Agricultural Development/World Food Programme, February 2002
Traditional
Early Warning Systems and Coping Strategies for Drought Among Pastoralist
Communities, Northeastern Province, Kenya - Working Paper No. 8 [pdf
format]
By Christopher Pratt, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
Feinstein International Famine Center/Northern Region Development Agency,
January 2002
Regional
Assessment of Rural Poverty in Eastern and Southern Africa
International Fund for Agricultural Development, January 2002
Conducting
Conflict Assessments: Guidance Note [pdf
format]
UK Department for International Development, January 2002
Natural
Catastrophes and Man-Made Disasters in 2001: Man-Made Losses Take on a New
Dimension, Sigma No. 1/2002
Swiss Re, January 2002
Human
Rights Watch World Report 2002
Human Rights Watch, January 2002
Mainstreaming
Gender Perspectives in Environmental Management and Mitigation of Natural Disasters:
On Disproportionate
Impact of Natural Disasters on Women
By Carolyn Hannan, Director, Division for the Advancement of Women
United Nations, January 2002
ALNAP
Annual Review 2001 - Humanitarian Action: Learning from Evaluation & Annex:
Quality Assessment Proforma [pdf format]
Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in
Humanitarian Action, December 2001
Children
- Not Soldiers: Guidelines for Working with Child Soldiers and Children
Associated with Fighting Forces
By Isobel McConnan and Sarah Uppard
The Save the Children Fund, December 2001
Conflict
Prevention in the Caucasus: Actors, Response Capacities and Planning Processes
[pdf
format]
EastWest Institute & Forum on Early Warning and Early
Response, December 2001
Reproductive
Health for Communities in Crisis: UNFPA Emergency Response [pdf
format]
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 2001
Selected
Bibliography on the Global Crisis of Internal Displacement [pdf
format]
By Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli
The Brookings-Cuny Project on Internal Displacement, December 2001
OCHA
and the Timor Crisis, 1999 [pdf format]
An independent study for OCHA
By Chris Hurford and Margareta Wahlstrom, November 2001
Education
and Afghan Society in the Twentieth Century [pdf
format]
By Saif R. Samady
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, November 2001
The
Drought and Humanitarian Crisis in Central and Southwest Asia: A Climate
Perspective [pdf
format]
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia Earth
Institute, November 2001
Afghanistan:
Humanity Denied - Systematic Violations of Women's Rights in Afghanistan [pdf
format]
Human Rights Watch, October 2001
Against
All Odds: Surviving the War on Adolescents [pdf
format]
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, October 2001
Nourishing
a Peaceful Earth: The CGIAR's Contributions [pdf
format]
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, October 2001
Women
Facing War - ICRC Study on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Women [pdf
format]
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), October 2001
The
State of Food Insecurity in the World 2001
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), October 2001
Handbook
for Emergencies, 2nd Edition [pdf
format]
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), October 2001
Refugees
by Numbers 2001
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), October 2001
Reducing
Vulnerability through Livelihoods Promotion in Shelter Sector Activities: An
Initial Examination for Potential Mitigation and Post-Disaster Application -
Working Paper No. 5 [pdf
format]
By Charles A. Setchell, USAID/OFDA
Feinstein International Famine Center, September 2001
Livestock
and Livelihoods in Emergencies: Lessons Learnt from the 1999-2001 Emergency
Response in the Pastoral Sector in Kenya - Working Paper No. 3 [pdf
format]
By Yacob Aklilu, Tufts University and Mike Wekesa, Acacia Consultants
Feinstein International Famine Center, September 2001
Global
Humanitarian Emergencies: Trends and Projections, 2001-2002
Government of the United States of America, September 2001
Human
Rights and Mass Exoduses: Report of the Secretary-General (A/56/334) [pdf
format]
United Nations, September 2001
Guide
to Program Options in Conflict-Prone Settings [pdf
format]
USAID/Office of Transition Initiatives, September 2001
Climate
Change 2001 - A Synthesis Report [pdf
format]
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, September 2001
Safety
and Security of Humanitarian Personnel and Protection of United Nations Personnel
- Report of the Secretary-General (A/56/384)
[pdf
format]
United Nations General Assembly, September 2001
Easy
Targets: Violence against Children Worldwide [pdf
format]
Human Rights Watch, September 2001
The
State of the World's Children 2002 [pdf
format]
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), September 2001
Landmine
Monitor Report 2001: Toward a Mine-Free World
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), September 2001
The
State of Food and Agriculture 2001
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), September 2001
Report
of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization [pdf
format]
UN General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session - Supplement No. 1 (A/56/1)
United Nations, September 2001
Humanitarian
Crises - Out of the Spotlight -
ECHO Annual Review 2000 [pdf
format]
European Commission -
Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), September 2001
Support
for Volunteering: Report of the Secretary-General (A/56/288)
[pdf
format]
United Nations General Assembly, August 2001
Participation
of Volunteers, “White Helmets”, in the Activities of the United Nations in
the Field of
Humanitarian Relief, Rehabilitation and Technical Cooperation for Development -
Report of the Secretary-General [pdf
format]
United Nations General Assembly, August 2001
Internally
Displaced Persons Lack Effective Protection
[pdf
format]
Report to the Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Foreign
Relations, U.S. Senate - United States General Accounting Office, August 2001
Bosnia
& Herzegovina: International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons
Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed
in the Territory of Former Yugoslavia Since 1991: Prosecutor vs. Radislav Krstic
[pdf
format]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY), August 2001
Human
Development Report 2001 [3278
KB - pdf
format]
United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP), July 2001
Report
of the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light
Weapons in All Its Aspects (A/CONF.192/15) [pdf
format]
United Nations, July 2001
Report
of the Representative of the Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons
(A/56/168)
[pdf
format]
United Nations, July 2001
Respect
our Rights: Partnership for Equality - Report on the Dialogue with Refugee Women
[pdf
format]
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR), June 2001
Women's
Land and Property Rights in Situations of Conflict and
Reconstruction [pdf
format]
United Nations Development Fund for Women, July 2001
World
Disasters Report 2001: Focus on Recovery
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, June 2001
Environmental
Values, Valuation Methods and Natural Disaster Damage Assessment [pdf
format]
By Cesare Dosi, University of Padova
UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, June 2001
Lost
Chances - The Changing Situation of Children in Afghanistan,
1999-2000 [pdf
format]
Global Movement for Children Afghanistan Working Group, June
2001
Regional
Association IV (North and Central America and the Caribbean) -
Hurricane Operational Plan, 2001 Edition [pdf
format]
World Meteorological Organization, June 2001
Women
and War: The Detention of Women in Wartime
[pdf
format]
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), June 2001
Strengthening
the Coordination of Emergency Humanitarian Assistance of the
United Nations - Report of the Secretary-General (A/56/95 -
E/2001/85) [pdf
format]
United Nations, June 2001
Humanitarian
Coordination: Lessons from Recent Field Experience - A
Study Commissioned by OCHA
[pdf
format]
by Nicola Reindorp and Peter Wiles
Overseas Development Institute,
June 2001
Regional
Media in Conflict - Case Studies in Local War Reporting
[pdf
format]
Institute for War & Peace Reporting, June 2001
Study
of the Socio-Economic Impact of Mine Action in Afghanistan
(SIMAA) [pdf
format]
Mine Action Programme for Afghanistan, June 2001
Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia - Breaking With the Past: The Path to
Stability and Growth
Vol.
1: The Economic, Social and Institutional Reform Agenda
[pdf
format]
Vol.
2: Assistance Priorities and Sectoral Analyses
[pdf
format]
World Bank, June 2001
Prevention
of Armed Conflict - Report of the Secretary-General
(A/55/985–S/2001/574)
United Nations, June 2001
SIPRI
Yearbook 2001: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
(Highlights)
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, June 2001
Child
Soldiers: Global Report 2001
The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, June 2001
The
WHALE: Wisdom We Have Acquired from the Liberia Experience
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR), May 2001
Internal
Displacement in the Americas: Some Distinctive Features - An Occasional Paper
[pdf
format]
Roberta Cohen, Senior Fellow & Gimena Sanchez-Garzoli, Senior Research
Assistant
The Brookings-Cuny Project on Internal Displacement, May 2001
Implementation
of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction - Report of the Secretary-General (A/56/68–E/2001/63) [pdf
format]
United Nations General Assembly/Economic and Social Council, May 2001
Disaster
Profiles of Least Developed Countries
[pdf
format]
United Nations Development Programme, May 2001
Human
Rights in the OSCE Region: The Balkans, The Caucasus, Europe, Central Asia and
North America - Report 2001
[pdf
format]
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, May 2001
Rethinking
ODA - Towards a Renewal of Official Development Assistance [pdf
format]
By Jens Martens
Global Policy Forum/Heinrich-Boell-Foundation, April 2001
Sharm
El-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee Report
[pdf
format]
United States of America, Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee, April 2001
Fifteen
Years After Chernobyl: Financing a Lasting Solution
Council of Europe, April 2001
Stress
Management in Disasters
[pdf
format]
Pan American Health Organization, March 2001
A
Study of Socio-Economic Approaches to Mine Action
[pdf
format]
United Nations Development Programme - Geneva International Centre for
Humanitarian Demining, March 2001
Report
of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on the Protection of Civilians
in Armed Conflict (S/2001/331)
United Nations Security Council, March 2001
Gender
& Humanitarian Assistance Resource Kit
Inter-Agency Standing Committee, March 2001
Depleted
Uranium in Kosovo: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessment - UNEP Scientific
Mission to Kosovo (05-19 November 2000)
United Nations Environment Programme, March 2001
Early Marriage: Child Spouses
[pdf
format]
Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, Italy
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), March 2001
Chronology
of Peace Process in Colombia 1998-2001
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Government of the United Kingdom, February 2001
US
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
US Department of State, February 2001
Under
Fire: the human cost of small arms in north-east Democratic Republic of the
Congo
Oxfam, January 2001
Natural
Catastrophes and Man-Made Disasters in 2000 [pdf
format]
Swiss Reinsurance Company, January 2001
Human Rights Watch World Report 2001
Human Rights Watch, January 2001
Post-Conflict
Environmental Assessment - Albania [pdf format]
United Nations Environment Programme, December 2000
Post-Conflict
Environmental Assessment - FYR of Macedonia [pdf format]
United Nations Environment Programme, December 2000
Small
Arms Survey: Re-Armament in Sierra Leone - One Year After the Lomé Peace
Agreement
Occasional Paper No.1
Graduate Institute of International Studies, December 2000
Report
of the International Task Force for Assessing the Baia Mare Accident [pdf
format]
European Commission, December 2000
Summary
Report of the inquiry into the death of one UNHCR staff member and the abduction
of another in Macenta, Guinea on 17 September 2000 [pdf format]
Inspector General’s Office,
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, December 2000
Summary
Report of the inquiry into the death of three UNHCR staff members in Atambua,
Indonesia on 6 September 2000 [pdf format]
Inspector General’s Office,
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, December 2000
Burundi:
Ni Guerre ni Paix - Une évaluation du processus de paix après la signature de
l’accord d’Arusha du 28 août 2000
[pdf format]
International Crisis Group, Décembre 2000
Scope
of Legal Protection Under the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and
Associated Personnel - Report of the Secretary-General (A/55/637) [pdf
format]
United Nations General Assembly, November 2000
The
Landmine Ban: A case Study in Humanitarian Advocacy [pdf
format]
Occasional Paper #42
- By Don Hubert
The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University,
November 2000
Methods
of Destruction of Small Arms, Light Weapons, Ammunition and Explosives - Report
of the Secretary-General (S/2000/1092) [pdf
format]
United Nations, November 2000
The
State of The World's Refugees 2000 - Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action [pdf
format]
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, November 2000
Reproductive
Health for Refugees - The Next Step [pdf
format]
Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium, October 2000
Safe
Operation of Mining Activities - A Follow-Up to Recent Mining Accidents [html]
[pdf format]
Commission of the European Communities, October 2000
Lessons
Learnt from the 1997-98 El Niño: Once Burned, Twice Shy... [pdf format]
A UNEP/NCAR/UNU/WMO/ISDR Assessment, October 2000
The
Kosovo Report [html] [pdf format]
The Independent International Commission on Kosovo, October 2000
Safety
and Security of United Nations Personnel - Report of the Secretary-General
(A/55/494) [html], [pdf format]
United Nations, October 2000
Report
of the Secretary-General on the Implementation of the Report of the Panel on
United Nations Peace Operations (A/55/502) [html] [pdf
format]
United Nations, October 2000
NGOs
in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Development and Cooperation with the OSCE
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe/Office for Democratic
Institutions and Human Rights, October 2000
Means
& Ends: Human Rights Approaches to Armed Groups [pdf
format]
International Council on Human Rights Policy, September 2000
Preventing
Violent Conflict - The Search for Political Will, Strategies and Effective Tools
[pdf format]
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, September 2000
Victim
Assistance: Thematic Report 2000 - A Review of Reported Casualties and Victim
Assistance
[pdf
format]
Handicap International, September 2000
Gathering
Storm - The Human Cost of Climate Change [pdf
format]
Friends of the Earth International, September 2000
The
Impact of Armed Conflict on Children - International Conference on War-Affected
Children
By Graça Machel, September 2000
Landmine
Monitor Report 2000
- Toward a Mine-Free World
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), August 2000
Report
of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations (A/55/305-S/2000/809) [pdf
format]
United Nations, August 2000
Assessing
the Opportunity for Sexual Violence against Women and Children in Refugee Camps
Julie Dugan, Carolyn J. Fowler, Paul A.
Bolton
The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, August 2000
Politics
and Humanitarian Action [pdf format]
Occasional Paper #41 - By Neil MacFarlane
The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University
and the United Nations University, July 2000
The
Dynamics of Coordination [pdf format]
Occasional Paper #40 - By Marc Sommers
The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University,
July 2000
Beyond
Security Planning: Towards a Model of Security Management - Coping with the
Security Challenges of the Humanitarian Work
Luis Enrique Eguren, MD, Peace Brigades International, July 2000
Adolescents:
Assessment of Nutritional Status in Emergency-Affected Populations [pdf format]
Bradley A. Woodruff, U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Arabella Duffield, UN ACC Sub-Committee on Nutrition, July 2000
Adults:
Assessment of Nutritional Status in Emergency-Affected Populations [pdf format]
Steve Collins, Valid International - Arabella Duffield, UN ACC Sub-Committee on
Nutrition,
Mark Wyatt, Institute of Ophthalmology, July 2000
Education
and Debate: Deaths Among Humanitarian Workers
[pdf format]
Mani Sheik, Maria Isabel Gutierrez, Paul Bolton, Paul Spiegel, Michel Thieren,
Gilbert Burnham
British Medical Journal (BMJ) Volume 321, July 2000
World
Health Report 2000
World Health Organization (WHO), June 2000
Economic
Causes of Civil Conflict and Their Implications for Policy [pdf format]
World Bank, June 2000
Ensuring
Reproductive Health in Especially Difficult Circumstances: UNFPA Programme
Experience and Challenges [pdf format]
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), May 2000
Kosovo
- Justice pour la Paix - Mission Internationale d'Enquête [pdf format]
Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme,
May 2000
Strengthening
of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations:
Report of the Secretary-General (A/55/82-S/2000/61)
United Nations, May 2000
Humanitarian
Action: A Transatlantic Agenda for Operations and Research
Occasional Paper #39
[pdf format]
Kenneth Hackett, CRS, Michael McClintock, HRW, Joanna Macrae, ODI, Karen Kenny,
IHRT
Larry Minear and Thomas G. Weiss
The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University,
May 2000
An
End to Forgotten Emergencies? - Oxfam GB Briefing Paper 5/00 (French) [pdf format]
Oxfam Great Britain, May 2000
Crops
and Drops: Making the Best Use of Water for Agriculture
[pdf format]
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, April 2000
Older
people in disasters and humanitarian crises: Guidelines for best practice [pdf format]
HelpAge International, April 2000
Measuring
Landmine Incidents and Injuries and the Capacity to Provide Care [pdf format]
Physicians for Human Rights, March 2000
Kosovo
and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention
Edited by Albrecht Schnabel and Ramesh Thakur
United Nations University, March 2000
Women
At The Peace Table - Making A Difference [pdf format]
Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, United Nations Development Fund for Women, March 2000
“We
the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century”
Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
United Nations Department of Public Information, March 2000
US
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
US Department of State, February 2000
When
Needs Are Rights: An Overview of UN Efforts to Integrate Human Rights in
Humanitarian Action - Occasional Paper #38 [pdf format]
Karen Kenny
The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University,
February 2000
The
Kosovo Refugee Crisis: An Independent Evaluation of UNHCR's Emergency
Preparedness and Response
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, February 2000
Untapped
Potential: Adolescents Affected by Armed Conflict [pdf format]
Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children, January 2000
The
Heart of the Matter - Sierra Leone - Diamonds and Human Security
[pdf format]
By Ian Smillie, Lansana Gberie, Ralph Hazleton
Partnership Africa Canada,
January 2000
Humanitarian
Action: Social Science Connections - Occasional Paper #37 [pdf format]
Stephen C. Lubkemann, Larry Minear, and Thomas G. Weiss
The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University,
January 2000
Sharing
New Ground in Post-Conflict Situations - The Role of UNDP in Support of
Reintegration Programmes
United Nations Development Programme, January 2000
NATO and
Humanitarian Action in the Kosovo Crisis - Occasional Paper #36
Larry Minear, Ted van Baarda and Marc Sommers
The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University,
January 2000
Human Security in Sudan: The
Report of a Canadian Assessment Mission [Part
1] [Part
2]
Prepared by John Harker for the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, January
2000
Manual
for the Evaluation of Humanitarian Aid [pdf format]
European Community Humanitarian Office, 1999
An
Easy Reference to International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law in [English],
[Français],
[Español] UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,
1999
Russian
Federation: Chechnya - For the Motherland
Amnesty International, December 1999
The
State of the World's Children 2000 [pdf format]
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), December 1999
Report
of the Secretary-General Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution
53/35: The Fall of Srebrenica (A/54/549) [pdf format]
United Nations, November 1999
Sanctions
on Iraq: Background, Consequences, Strategies [pdf format]
Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI), November 1999
Handbook
for Applying the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement [pdf format]
The Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement
Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs
United Nations, November 1999
Manual
on Field Practice in Internal Displacement: Examples from UN Agencies and
Partner Organisations of Field-based Initiatives Supporting Internally Displaced
Persons [pdf format]
Inter-Agency Standing
Committee Policy Paper Series No. 1
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
United Nations, November 1999
OCHA
Orientation Handbook on Complex Emergencies
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
United Nations, 1999
The
Impact of Economic Sanctions on Health and Well-being: Network Paper
by Richard Garfield
Relief and Rehabilitation Network (RRN), November 1999
The
State of Food and Agriculture
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, November 1999
The
Potential Effects on Human Health and the Environment Rising from Possible Use
of Depleted Uranium During the 1999 Kosovo Conflict - A Preliminary Assessment
[pdf format]
United Nations Environment Programme, October 1999
East
Timor: Historical Background [pdf format]
Foreign & Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom, October 1999
Decentralised
Co-operation: A New Tool for Conflict Situations
The experience of WHO in Bosnia and Herzegovina: a case study
World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, September 1999
Disaster Chronicle on Hurricanes Georges and
Mitch
- Introduction [pdf format]
(Spanish)
- Hurricane Georges: Caribbean, Dominican
Republic and Haiti [pdf format]
(Spanish)
- Hurricane Mitch: Honduras, Nicaragua,
El Salvador, Guatemala
and Belize [pdf format]
(Spanish)
- Annex [pdf format] (Spanish)
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), September 1999
Global
Humanitarian Emergencies: Trends and Projections, 1999-2000
Government of the United States of America, August 1999
Disasters
Controlled Vocabulary (CVD)
Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Disaster Information Center (CRID),
August 1999
The
Politics of Famine in North Korea - Special Report
By Andrew Natsios, U.S. Institute of Peace, August 1999
Guidance
for Evaluating Humanitarian Assistance in Complex Emergencies
[pdf format]
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 1999
Post-Modern
Conflict and Humanitarian Action: Questioning the Paradigm
Sean Greenaway, 1999
Protection
of Children and Adolescents in Complex Emergencies
Norwegian Refugee Council, Redd Barna (Save the Children Norway) and the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees, 1999
The Psychological
Health of Relief Workers: Some Practical Suggestions
By Peter Salama, Medical Coordinator, Concern Worldwide
Human Rights
Watch World Report 2000
Human Rights Watch
WHO
Handbook for Emergency Related Field Operations
World Health Organization
(WHO)
http://www.who.ch/eha/ World
Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.who.ch/eha/
Internet
Guide for Diplomats
by Jovan Kurbalija and Stefano Baldi
pp. 280 , Diplo Publishing, Malta
International
Guidelines for Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Awareness Education
United Nations
Report
of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization (A/54/1)
United Nations, August 1999
Eurasia's
Dispossessed NGOs and Human Security
The Forced Migration Projects of the Open Society Institute
Kosovo:
Protection and Peace-Building - Protection of Refugees, Returnees, Internally
Displaced Persons and Minorities
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
A
Humanitarian Practitioner's Guide to International Human Rights Law
Occasional Paper #34 - By William G. O'Neill
The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown
University
Landmine
Monitor Report 1999 - Toward a Mine-Free World
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)
Opening
the Black Box: An Outline of a Framework to Understand, Promote and Evaluate
Humanitarian Coordination [pdf format]
Overseas Development Institute, Humanitarian Policy Group, June 1999
Assessment
of the Environmental Impact of Military Activities During the Yugoslavia
Conflict, Preliminary Findings, June 1999
Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
Humanitarian
Response to Children, 1999: UNICEF Emergency Funding Requests
1999 in conjunction with the United Nations Consolidated Appeal for Emergencies
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) [632 KB - pdf format]
Preventing
Violent Conflict - A Swedish Action Plan
Fact Sheet, Executive
Summary and Special Measures, Action
Plan [pdf format]
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, May 1999
A
Case by Case Analysis of Recent Crises - Assessing 20 Years of Humanitarian
Action: Iraq, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Burundi, the former Zaire,
Chechnya and Kosovo [pdf format]
Médecins du Monde, April 1999
Kosovo:
Accounts of a Deportation - Kosovo:
Histoires d'une déportation
Médecins Sans Frontières, April 1999
Humanitarian
Assistance in Disaster Situations: A Guide for Effective Aid [pdf format]
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), 1999
The
Progress of Nations 1999 [1.613 MB - pdf format)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
http://www.unicef.org/pon99/index.html
World
Disasters Report 1999
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
http://www.ifrc.org/pubs/wdr/
Amnesty
International Annual Report 1999
Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar99/index.html
SIPRI
YEARBOOK 1999 - Armaments, Disarmament and International Security
(Highlights)
Stokholm International Peace Research Institute
The
World Health Report 1999 - Making a difference
World Health Organization
World
Report 1999
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/worldreport99/
State
of the World's Children 1999
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
http://www.unicef.org/sowc99/
Internal
Displacement and Gender: Notes for Presentation to Humanitarian Principles
Workshop - Focus on a Child Rights Approach to Complex Emergencies and Internal
Displacement
by Erin Mooney
OHCHR, Brussels, October 1998
"1998
Global Report Achievements and Impact"
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
http://www.unhcr.ch/fdrs/gr98/toc.htm
Security
in the field: Information for staff members of the United Nations
system
United Nations, NY 1998 [155 KB - pdf format]
The
World Bank's Experience With Post-Conflict Reconstruction [pdf format]
By Alcira Kreimer, John Eriksson, Robert Muscat, Margaret Arnold, Colin Scott
World Bank, June 1998
Working
Paper Number 16 -The Root Causes of Conflict: Some Conclusions
by Frances Stewart, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, June 1998 [128
KB - pdf format]
An
Easy Reference to International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
A
Case by Case Analysis of Recent Crises - Assessing 20 Years of Humanitarian
Action (Iraq, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Burundi,
the former Zaire, Chechnya, and Kosovo) - Working Paper
Médecins du Monde
The
Use of Children as Soldiers in Africa - A country analysis of child recruitment
and participation in armed conflict
The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (Amnesty International, Defence
for Children International, Human Rights Watch, International Federation Terre
des Hommes, Jesuit Refugee Service, Quaker United Nations Office, Rädda Barnen)
Kosovo
and Environs Geographic Names Index: Names Approved by the United
States Board on Geographic Names, Second Edition, Dec. 1998 [1.37MB - pdf
format]
Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance
U.S. Agency for International Development
(View
Corresponding Map)
Report
to the Headquarters Colloquium on the InterAgency Strategic Framework Mission to
Afghanistan
by Larry Minear, Humanitarianism and War Project, Brown University's Watson
Institute
Tajikistan:
Refugee reintegration and conflict prevention
Forced Migration Projects, Open Society Institute
Child
nutrition and food security during armed conflicts
by Dr. Anwar Hussain and Marion Herens, Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations
Humanitarian
Action in the Caucasus: A Guide for Practitioners
by Greg Hansen, Humanitarianism and War Project & Local Capacities for Peace
Project
The Thomas J. Watson Jr., Institute for International
Studies, Brown University
Social
and Economic Policies to Prevent Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
- Lessons from Experience
by Jeni Klugman - Published by The United Nations University/World Institute for
Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER)
Humanitarian
Coordination: Lessons Learned - Report of a Review Seminar
jointly organised by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United
Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Humanitarian
Security: Challenges and Responses
by Sean Greenaway, MA (ECHO) and Andrew J. Harris, Ph.D., (ANSER)
Humanitarian
Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response
The Sphere Project (a programme of the Steering Committee for Humanitarian
Response & InterAction, with VOICE, ICRC, ICVA)
http://www.sphereproject.org/
Coping
with the Humanitarian Impact of Sanctions: An OCHA Perspective
By Claude Bruderlein, Special Advisor, United Nations Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, New York
Strategic
Approaches to International Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Centre for Applied Studies in International Negotiations
Poverty
Report 1998
United Nations Development Programme
http://www.undp.org/poverty/report/report.html
Report
of the Secretary-General on Protection for Humanitarian Assistance to Refugees
and others in Conflict Situations (S/1998/883)
United Nations
Protection
of children affected by armed conflict - Report of the Special Representative of
the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (A/53/482)
United Nations
Amnesty
International Annual Report 1998
Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar98/index.html
The
State of the World Population Report 1998
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
http://www.unfpa.org/SWP/SWPMAIN.HTM
Human
Development Report 1998
United Nations Development Programme
http://www.undp.org/hdro/98.htm
State
of the World's Emergencies 1998
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/eha/emergenc/soe/sld001.htm
Trends
in International Migration. Annual Report 1998
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
http://www.oecd.org/news_and_events/publish/pb98-34a.htm
Guiding Principles on
Internal Displacement [English]
[Français]
[Español]
[Russian
(pdf)] [Arabic
(pdf)] [*Bahasa
Indonesia (pdf) *unofficial translation]
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
http://156.106.192.130/dha_ol/pub/index.html
Study
Report: The Development of Indigenous Mine Action Capacities
UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs
http://156.106.192.130/dha_ol/pub/landmine/study/index.html
Strategic
Humanitarian Coordination in the Great Lakes Region 1996-1997
An Independent Study for the IASC
UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee
http://156.106.192.130/dha_ol/pub/greatlak/index.html
Complex crisis and complex
peace: Humanitarian
coordination in Angola
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
http://www.reliefweb.int/dha_ol/pub/angola/index.html
Human
Rights Watch World
Report 1998
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/worldreport/Table.htm
State
of the World's Children 1998
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
http://www.unicef.org/sowc98/
Where
There Is No Telephone
John R.G. Corbett, Communications Engineer
République du Zaïre
http://www.reliefweb.int/library/wtint/toc.html
Field
Operations Guide (FOG) for Disaster Assessment and Response
Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance
U.S. Agency For International Development
http://www.info.usaid.gov/ofda/fog/
Disaster
Communications Manual
The Disaster Relief Communications Foundation
http://www.reliefweb.int/library/dc1/dcc1.html
Annual
Report 1997
International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
http://www.ifrc.org/pubs/ar1997/contents.htm
The
State of the World's Refugees: A Humanitarian Agenda (1997)
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/pub/state/97/toc.htm
Populations
of Concern to UNHCR: A Statistical Overview (1997)
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/refbib/refstat/1997/97intro.htm
The
long road to recovery: Community responses to industrial disaster
The United Nations University, 1996
Humanitarian
Action and Politics: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh [pdf. format]
Occasional Paper #25 - By S. Neil MacFarlane and Larry Minear
The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University,
December 1996
War
and Humanitarian Action in Chechnya [pdf. format]
Occasional Paper #26 - By Greg Hansen and Robert Seely
The Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University,
September 1996
UNHCR
Environmental Guidelines [pdf format]
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, June 1996
The
Policies of Mercy: UN Coordination in Afghanistan, Mozambique
and Rwanda - Occasional Paper
#22 [pdf format]
By Antonio Donini
The Thomas J. Watson Jr., Institute for International Studies,
Brown University, January 1996
Global
Humanitarian Emergencies 1996
U.S. Government
Summary of 1996 Humanitarian Emergencies
http://www.reliefweb.int/library/usglobal/ghe96_1.html
The
International Response to Conflict and Genocide: Lessons
from the Rwanda Experience
Steering Committee of the Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda
http://www.reliefweb.int/library/nordic/index.html
MCDA
Reference Manual 1995
UN Department of Humanitrarian Affairs
http://www.reliefweb.int/library/mcda/refman/index.html
WFP
Guidelines for Calculating Food Rations for Refugees
World Food Programme
http://www.wfp.org/OP/guide/Rations.html
Kosovo
"Kacanik Constitution" (in Albanian) [pdf* format]
Ilaz Ramajli, September 1990
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