{"id":491,"date":"2009-09-28T16:56:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T00:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/?p=491"},"modified":"2009-09-28T17:11:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T01:11:42","slug":"m1-ws-3-refworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/2009\/09\/28\/m1-ws-3-refworld\/","title":{"rendered":"M1-WS 3: Refworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/cgi-bin\/texis\/vtx\/refworld\/rwmain\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/cgi-bin\/texis\/vtx\/refworld\/rwmain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The extended title of this web site is \u201cRefworld: The leader in Refugee Decision Support\u201d.\u00a0 Its primary focus is on refugee rights and consequently overlaps with indigenous issues.\u00a0 The site is backed by the UN refugee agency UNHCR.<\/p>\n<p>This site is a gold mine of information about anything you could imagine dealing with refugee\/indigenous issues.\u00a0 You can search by country, region, ethnic group, topic, publisher, document type, etc. and also has an advanced search option as well as search tips.\u00a0 When I searched for Nepal, I found a short article titled, \u201cState of the World&#8217;s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2009 \u2013 Nepal\u201d.\u00a0 It was very concise yet informative.\u00a0 As if this isn\u2019t enough information to last a year or two, the site also boasts an extensive collection of external links (2323 to be exact).\u00a0 It\u2019s possible to browse the links by type, topic, region and country.\u00a0 If there are still too many results, it\u2019s possible to search for a key word in the findings.<\/p>\n<p>With so much information offered here, it does take time to sort out what is relevant to your research area; however, there are tools available to help in your search including a personalization feature that requires you to subscribe to the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/cgi-bin\/texis\/vtx\/refworld\/rwmain The extended title of this web site is \u201cRefworld: The leader in Refugee Decision Support\u201d.\u00a0 Its primary focus is on refugee rights and consequently overlaps with indigenous issues.\u00a0 The site is backed by the UN refugee agency UNHCR. This site is a gold mine of information about anything you could imagine dealing with refugee\/indigenous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}