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- 50 Years On - What Future for Refugee Protection? - Focuses on the future of refugee protection worldwide on the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Human Rights Watch charted the erosion of refugee protection throughout Western Europe.
www.hrw.org/campaigns/refugees
- Cambridgeshire Against Refugee Detention - Campaigns against the British government's policy of imprisoning asylum-seekers while their claims are processed, and against the detention centre at Oakington near Cambridge.
www.closeoakington.org
- Closed Door Policy: Afghan Refugees in Pakistan and Iran - A report by Human Rights Watch discussing key problems that Afghan refugees now confront and their treatment in exile.
hrw.org/reports/2002/pakistan/index.htm
- Eagle Eyes Association for Afghan Displaced Youth - Supports refugees of the Afghanistan war. Provides support in health, training, vocation and education to Afghanis, the largest number of single nation refugees in the world.
www.angelfire.com/ok4/afghanistan
- Echr - Asylum and Immigration Law Review - Legal resource site for UK immigration, asylum and human rights practitioners.
www.echr.co.uk
- El Rescate - Immigration legal services. We are a non-profit organization with twenty years of experience helping the Central American community in Los Angeles.
www.elrescate.org
- European Network on Integration of Refugees - Focuses of refugee issues. Site in English and in French.
www.refugeenet.org
- Forced Migration Review - Published three times a year in English, Spanish and Arabic by the Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford. FMR enables academics, practitioners, refugees, and IDPs to share information and experience.
www.fmreview.org.
- Guardian Special Report - Refugees - A series of articles on refugees, asylum and immigration politics. Including latest news, analysis and external links.
www.guardian.co.uk/Refugees_in_Britain/0,2759,180745,00.html
- Hard Realities - Describes one individual's three frustrating and unsuccessful attempts to leave the United States and secure political asylum in Europe.
www.angelfire.com/nj/jhgraf/hardreal.html
- Human Rights Watch - Children's Rights Refugees - Spotlights the rights and special protection needs of refugee children. Describes how many refugee children continue to suffer human rights abuses in countries of asylum.
www.hrw.org/children/refugees.htm
- Human Rights Watch - Refugee Page - News, reports, background information and commentary on refugee rights world-wide.
www.hrw.org/refugees
- Human Rights Watch - World Report 2002 - Annual report on refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and internally displaced persons
hrw.org/wr2k2/refugees.html
- Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights - Provides information on immigrant and refugee related policies in Illinois and on a national level. Reports, newsletters, links, action alerts and other resources are posted.
www.icirr.org
- Kent Refugee Action Network - An umbrella organization of the individual support groups for asylum seekers and refugees in Kent. The groups offer support, befriending and practical assistance.
www.gn.apc.org/cantlab/kran.htm
- Konrad Weiss: The Right of Asylum. - Speech in the German Bundestag on the occasion of proposed changes to German asylum law, April 30, 1992.
www.bln.de/k.weiss/te_asyl.htm
- Organization for Aid to Refugees - Based in Prague, the Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU) provides social counseling and legal counseling to asylum seekers and recognized refugees staying on the territory of the Czech Republic.
www.opu.cz
- Refugee Camps - Find out how 39 million people are forced to live today by learning about the basic needs in a refugee camp and hearing the personal stories of refugees and relief workers.
refugeecamp.org
- Refugee Rights - This site was launched to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees which was formally adopted on 28 July 1951 and has been ratified by 140 countries, with Belarus soon to become the 141st country to ratify the convention.
www.refugeerights.org
- Refugees from Bhutan - Photographs and analysis of Bhutanese refugees living in UNHCR camps in Nepal.
www.geocities.com/ben_saul
- Refugees: Building an effective response - Canadian government study that examines the international refugee crisis, its causes, international agreements, and policy options.
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/xpress/dex/dex9505.htm
- Scattered People - Australian stories and songs by refugees about the odyssey of refugees.
www.brisbane-stories.webcentral.com.au/scatteredpeople/default.htm
- The Palestine Right To Return Coalition - UK - Organization that supports the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
www.al-awda.org.uk
- The Torchlight Campaign - Reports, volunteer opportunities, alerts and legislative information on refugees and asylum seekers in the U.S.
www.lchr.org/refugee/refugee.htm
- US Committee for Refugees - Defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced persons worldwide.
www.refugees.org
- BBC: Road to Refuge - Interviews, testimonials, audio, slide show, and articles about people seeking refuge from war, persecution or disaster.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/road_to_refuge/default.stm
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