Public Lectures 

Imtiaz Ahmed, Professor of International Relations, Dhaka University (Bangladesh) delivered a special lecture at Utkal University on 28 July 2007. The lecture was jointly organized by the CRG, Department of Journalism and Electronic Communication and School of Women’s Studies, Utkal University. The theme of his lecture was – ‘Internal Displacement in Bangladesh’. Besides two public lectures delivered by Heikki Patomaki and Jan Breman were organized as part of the course on 30 November and 13 December 2007. Their lectures were focused on the future of European Union and Coolie Migration in the colonial era respectively. Dr. Carolyn Stephens Epidemiologist & Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, U.K. delivered a public lecture on "Globalisation, Inequality & Urban Health" at CRG seminar room on 18 January 2008. 

Research Programme 

The CRG has designed and organized a number of researches on the theme of forced migration. The three researches on internal displacement in Nepal, Migrants of Kolkata and Finland’s Asylum Policy were conducted by Shiv Dhungana, Eeva Puumala and Priyanca Mathur Velath and Nand Kishor respectively.  This collection of three papers has come out in CRG series on Policies and Practices (No.17). Besides, CRG’s critique of National Rehabilitation Policy and Communal Violence Bill 2007 is published under the same series (No. 16). Separate studies conducted on displacement in Batticaloa (Sri Lanka) and Chattisgarh (India) were published by CRG under the same series (No.15). 
As a result of these researches a significant section of the course material consisted of CRGs’ own findings. Then for instance, two issues of Refugee Watch (Nos. 28 & 29) were issued as course 

material. CRG is currently designing a separate reader on forced migration and a publication of selections from Refugee Watch,to be used as course material.
All these follow-up activities have ensured the transition of the course into a full-fledged programme. 

Gender and Forced Migration (22-24 February 2008) 

The three-day workshop (22-24 February 2008) organized by CRG and Asmita Resource Centre for Women, Hyderabad on “Gender and Forced Migration” in NIMSME, Hyderabad focused on how issues of climate change, development and conflict run parallel to displace and forcibly migrate women from their resources and livelihood.
The three-day proceedings of the workshop on Gender and Forced Migration began with the introductory remarks by Prof. Kalpana Kannabiran, NALSAR, Hyderabad. In her introductory remarks she spoke of her association with CRG and welcomed the broadening of the individual collaboration to an institutional level i.e., with Asmita, Hyderabad. Following this, she reflected on various issues that have been plaguing Andhra Pradesh and other States in South India which has resulted in forced migration and displacement. Farmers’ suicide and hunger deaths in various belts of Andhra Pradesh have forced people to move for better locales for better life and livelihood. The coastal region of Andhra Pradesh has been affected due to various development activities. Due to shrimp cultivation there has been considerable decline in horticulture.
Following this, Dr. Paula Banerjee, Senior Researcher Senior Researcher, CRG and Head of Department, Department of South and South East Asian Studies, University of Calcutta in her address on “Why is Forced Migration a Women’s