26 Feb 2002

Unfinished Journeys: refugees and migration in Asia and the Pacific
ABC Radio Australia, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney, Australia
Supplied note: "As ministers and officials from 20 Asian and Pacific countries meet [in Feb 2002 - ed.] in Bali for the regional conference on people smuggling, the ABC has launched the Unfinished Journeys website at [the URL below]. A co-production of ABC New Media, Radio Australia and ABC Asia Pacific, 'Unfinished Journeys' is a comprehensive website which looks at the facts, figures and stories about refugees, migration and people smuggling in the Asia-Pacific region.
[Site contents:] * The latest news from the Bali conference and on refugee issues in the region; * Detailed information about international conventions and declarations referring to refugees, smuggling and trafficking; * An online forum open for comment from around the region; * Accurate figures about unregulated population movements in the region; * Background information, opinion pieces and several case studies; * An examination of six key issues facing the region [Exodus & Repatriation, Seeking Asylum, Internal Displacement, Pacific Solution, Border Crossers, Human Traffic - ed.]; * Definitions about the various terms used in the refugee debate; * A comprehensive links page pointing to other valuable resources [Refugees and IDPs, Trafficking and smuggling, Other - ed.]."
URL http://goasiapacific.com/specials/journeys/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [not archived at the time of this note]
Link reported by: Andria Hutchins (hutchins.andria@abc.net.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30