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- Refugee Action - Refugee Action is an independent charity that supports refugees and asylum seekers to resettle and build new lives in the UK. We campaign to ensure that refugees' voices are heard in matters that affect them, and that their needs are met. Site offers refugee stories and local contact information.
- U.S. Committee for Refugees - USCR's site provides news and extensive background information on refugee crisis around the world, and offers tools for promoting the cause of refugees. Home of the annual World Refugee Survey.
- New Zealand Refugee Law website (RefNZ) - Site dedicated to New Zealand refugee law. Provides full text search in Refugee Status decisions, Appeals and High Court decisions, Statistics, etc.
- Amnesty International: Refugees - Questions and answers from AIUSA on the human rights of refugees.
- Asylum Seekers and Refugees - Community development project seeking to educate on refugee issues with background information and commentary from a social justice perspective.
- Refugee Claimants Support Centre - Provides services to asylum seekers and refugee claimants in Brisbane and works to increase public awareness of refugees. Centre information, gift catalogue, donation form, volunteer information, and contacts.
- Department of Social Services: Refugee Programs Bureau - Who is a refugee? Obtain information on services and programs available to refugees in California. Listing of VOLAGS, MAAS, and county offices that provide social services to the refugee community.
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - The UN's refugee agency, the site contains feature stories and information about the UN's work for refugees around the world as well as searchable databases of news, publications, and links.
- 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.
- US Committee for Refugees - Defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced persons worldwide.
Wikipedia Articles
- Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees - The Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees entered into force on October 4, 1967, and extended the protections granted by the United Nations 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees to those beyond Europe and those refugees who survived the Second World War.
- Refugees of Iraq - Throughout the past 30 years, there have been a growing number of refugees fleeing Iraq and settling throughout the world, peaking recently with the latest Iraq War. The Iran-Iraq War from 1980 to 1988, the 1990 Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait, the first Gulf War and subsequent conflicts all generated hundreds of thousands if not millions of refugees.
- European Council on Refugees and Exiles - The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) is a pan-European network of refugee-assisting non-governmental organisations that promotes a humane and generous European asylum policy. ECRE celebrated its 30th year of promoting the rights of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe in 2004.
- Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands - On March 3, 1865, Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, also known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was a federal agency that was formed during Reconstruction to aid distressed refugees of the American Civil War. It became primarily an agency to help the Freedmen (freed slaves) in the South.
- Sokora Refugees - Sokora Refugees is an amerimanga webcomic by Segamu and Melissa DeJesus started on 2004-12-31. Sokora Refugees was an ongoing webcomic updating every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, although the webcomic has been on hiatus since November 10, 2006.