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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 of country of origin information.

The featured topics on Afghanistan and Syria have been updated.

UNHCR released statistics on the number of asylum applications in 2011 in industrialized countries. The report covers 44 countries in Europe, North America, Australasia and north-east Asia.

The Hungarian Helsinki Committee launched updated editions of The Refugee Law Reader. It is a comprehensive online model curriculum for the study of the complex and rapidly evolving field of international refugee law.

RSF has published the annual “Enemies of the Internet” report. And we updated the featured topics on Afghanistan and Syria.

The featured topics on Afghanistan and Syria have been updated.

Two new  featured topics are available: an overview on events related to the armed group Al-Shabaab in Somalia since October 2011 and an overview on sectarian violence in Pakistan since September 2011.

The featured topic on Dagestan has been updated and the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office launched its new website, making available the ANSO reports.

Human Rights Watch published its annual World Report, covering events in 2011. The introductory essay examines the Arab Spring.