title: State of the World's Refugees, The: Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action
author: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
description: `The book is a goldmine of valuable information and a 'must-read' for all those involved in humanitarian assistance, educators, and students of forced migration, the media, and law'<br />Development in Practice<br /><br />`the book provides useful commentary and insight on the nature and evolution of refugee operations over 50 years, a first-ever of its kind.'<br />Development in Practice, vol.11, no.5<br /><br />`the text boxes, which are mini-archives, [are] especially informative'<br />Development in Practice, vol.11, no.5<br /><br />`The team of researchers and writers, ably guided by editor Marc Cutts, has covered a vast amount of territory and pulled into relief the past and current events which have shaped global policy and practice.'<br />Development in Practice, vol.11, no.5<br /><br />`takes an indispensable first step toward helping the writing and thinking to catch up to the new realities fo refugee policy.'<br />Arthur C. Helton, Senior Fellow for Refugee Studies and Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations New York, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol.13<br /><br />`The book has an encyclopaedic scope, and it will be an important reference work for researchers and others interested in the evolution of modern refugee policy. Moreover, "The State of the World's Refugees 2000" is a relatively easy read, no small feat given the fact that there are 100 listed<br />contributors, many of whom were from outside of the agency.'<br />Arthur C. Helton, Senior Fellow for Refugee Studies and Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations New York, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol.13<br /><br />`The book is also beautifully designed. It provides a well of graphs, diamgrams, maps, statistics and photographs'<br />Millennium<br /><br />`a well-researched analysis of the world's major displacement emergencies in the latter half of the twentieth century'<br />Millennium<br /><br />`an impressive and insightful work revealing how the international community's attempts at dealing with displacement crises have evolved during the last fifty years'<br />Millennium<br /><br />`The State of the World's Refugees 2000 is the most ambitious and impressive of the series so far'<br />Millennium
zlib_text: Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile
  This book investigates how effective human rights and the inherent dignity of 
  refugees can be secured in situations of protracted exile and encampment. The 
  book deploys an innovative human rights-based capabilities approach to address 
  fundamental questions relating to law, power, governance, responsibility, and 
  accountability in refugee camps.
  Adopting an original theoretical framework, the author demonstrates that legal 
  empowerment can change the distribution of power in a given refugee situation, 
  facilitating the exercise of individual agency and assisting in the reform of the 
  opportunity structure available to the individual. Thus, by helping to increase the 
  capability of refugees to participate actively in the decisions that most affect their 
  core rights and interests, participatory approaches to legal empowerment can also 
  assist in securing other capabilities, ultimately ensuring that refugees are able to 
  live dignified lives while in