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Server maintenance from Tue, 14 May 23:00 to Wed, 15 May 9:00 CET

Posted on 10 May 2013 by ACCORD ecoi.net

The ecoi.net server will undergo scheduled maintenance from Tuesday, 14 May, 23:00 CET to Wednesday, 15 May, 9:00 CET. Within that timeframe, there will be several server downtimes.

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Freedom House publishes Freedom of the Press 2013, and our featured topics on Afghanistan, Dagestan, Nigeria and Somalia were updated

Posted on 2 May 2013 by ACCORD ecoi.net

Freedom House publishes its annual report Freedom of the Press. The country reports will be added to ecoi.net as soon as they become available. Our featured topics on Afghanistan (security situation in Kabul), Dagestan (security situation), Nigeria (Boko Haram) and … Continue reading →

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New issue of The Researcher and the USDOS releases the 2012 human rights reports

Posted on 22 April 2013 by ACCORD ecoi.net

The Researcher is published two times a year by the Refugee Documentation Centre (RDC) in Ireland. It is a publication which combines academic papers, summaries of caselaw, guides to new legislation, reports of conferences, articles on RDC services and items … Continue reading →

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Sources update: additional UN committees, IPS news, Women News Network,Caucasian Knot

Posted on 10 April 2013 by ACCORD ecoi.net

We now cover more sources regularly on ecoi.net: three additional UN committees, two additional UN missions, the Inter Press Service news agency, the Women News Network, and Caucasian Knot.

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UNHCR Asylum Levels and Trends 2012 in Industrialized Countries: Highest number of asylum applications since 2003

Posted on 29 March 2013 by ACCORD ecoi.net

UNHCR released statistics on the number of asylum applications in 2012 in 44 industrialized countries, showing an increase by 8 per cent. The highest increase is reported for asylum requests from Syrians.

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