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  1. After the Cataclysm
    Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Right:s)
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  2. Bold Refugee Strategy Succeeds
    Law Union News, February/March 1979
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
  3. Burma: Ripe for change
    New Internationalist May 2008
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at Burma's attempts to speak out against political injustice.
  4. Chomsky.Info 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  5. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
  6. Do or Die: The people versus development in the Narmada Valley
    New Internationalist July 2001 - #336
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    A look at the case the Supreme Court of India against The People regarding the Narmada Dam.
  7. Electronic Intifada
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. News, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective.
  8. Epilogue to Underground to Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1978
    The epilogue to I.F. Stone's first-hand account of the movement of European Jews to Palestine in 1946.
  9. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Israel historian Ilan Pappe recounts the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
  10. Guidelines for exiled journalists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A guide for journalists driven into exile, to provide them with information about the procedures and potential obstacles in seeking asylum.
  11. Human Rights and the Protection of Refugees under International Law
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  12. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  13. Keep Out: The case for open borders
    New Internationalist October 2002 - #350
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    A look at refugees and the challenges they face. Discussion of how the refugee experience differs in different parts of the world.
  14. The lessons we have learned
    Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
  15. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
  16. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
  17. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  18. The New Refugees
    American Voices in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  19. The No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration
    Resource Type: Book
  20. The Other Side of Israel
    My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Explores the unequal treatment of Palestinians living in Israel as "citizens", but as second-class citizens in a theocratic state that discriminates against Arabs in many ways.
  21. Out of Africa: A Migrant's Story
    New Internationalist June 2005 - #379
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    An issue on the story of a nurse's return back to Kenya and the reason why she has worked so far away from home. Also, a discussion on a widespread crisis in international healthcare and the human costs of our global free-market economy
  22. Palestinian Refugees: The Right Of Return
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    The thorniest of issues, elucidated, discussed, and contextualized, by an impressive array of scholars and activists, including Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Norman Finkelstein, Jaber Sueiman, Nahla Ghandour, Susan Akram, Salman Abu-Sitta, and Jan Abu Shakrah. The chapters cover the historical roots of the Palestinian refugee question; the obligations of host countries under international law (the case of Lebanon); Israeli perceptions of the refugee question; the role of the United States and the European Union and the Refugee Question; the PLO; meeting the needs of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon; Palestinian refugees and Jewish immigrants from Arab countries; and a program for an Independent Rights Campaign.
  23. Recommended Changes in Canada's Refugee Status Determination Procedure:
    A Brief to the Hon. Bud Cullen, Minister of Employment and Immigration
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
  24. Red Pepper
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Independent magazine of the green and radical left.
  25. Reflections and Meditations Thirty Years After
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    I.F. Stone's reflections on Israel thirty years after writing his first-hand account "Underground to Palestine'.
  26. Refuge: Canada's National Newsletter On Refugees.
    Periodical profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  27. The Refugee As Neighbour
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1987
  28. The Refugee Experience - Perspectives On Refugee Issues.
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1982
  29. Refugee Sandwich
    Stories of Exile and Asylum
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
  30. So Far From Home: Chileans In Exile
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1982
  31. Twin Terrors
    New Internationalist November 2001
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    An in-depth look at the events of the 9/11 disaster.
  32. Underground to Palestine 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1978
  33. Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Designed to inform those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Written in question and answer format
  34. United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1967
  35. Why Israel? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    A routine strategy of Israel’s defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of “humanitarian interventions” that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council – sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
  36. Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT “recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state” 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.

Experts on Refugees in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants Inc. (CAPIC-ACCPI)
  2. Canadians for Genocide Education
  3. Professor Randall Hansen
  4. Lutheran Church -- Canada
  5. National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
  6. Oxfam Canada
  7. Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
  8. Science for Peace
  9. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  10. World Health Organization


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