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AFRICA: Organisations and links
International organisations  
  • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - UNHCR
    www.unhcr.org
  • United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees - UNRWA
    www.un.org
 
  • IOM - International Organization for Migration
    www.iom.int
   
NON Governmental Organisations  
  • American Refugee Committee
    www.archq.org
    The American Refugee Committee works for the survival, health and well being of refugees, displaced people, and those at risk, enabling them to rebuild productive lives of dignity and purpose, striving always to respect their values.
  • Anera
    www.anera.org
    American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) was founded in 1968 in the aftermath of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, to help the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians.
  • Asylum Law
    www.asylumlaw.org
    asylumlaw.org, is a free website run by an international consortium of agencies that help asylum seekers in Australia, Canada, the United States, and several countries in Europe
  • Australian Refugee Council
    www.refugeecouncil.org.au
    The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) is a non-profit peak organisation. It provides information on and advocacy for refugees and humanitarian entrants in Australia on behalf of its 90 organisational members and many individual members. It is not a part of the Australian Government.
  • Brookings Institute Project on Internal Displacement
    www.brook.edu
  • British Refugee Council
    www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
    The Refugee Council is the largest organisation in the UK working with asylum seekers and refugees.
  • Canadian Council for Refugees
    www.web.net
    The Canadian Council for Refugees is a non-profit umbrella organization committed to the rights and protection of refugees in Canada and around the world and to the settlement of refugees and immigrants in Canada.
  • Centre for Refugee Studies-York University, Canada. www.yorku.ca
    The Centre for Refugee Studies is engaged in research on refugee issues.
  • Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
    www.compas.ox.ac.uk
    The British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has recently awarded the University of Oxford a new national research centre on migration.
  • Cultural Orientation
    www.culturalorientation.net
    The United States Refugee Program helps thousands of refugees resettle in the United States each year. Refugees are processed overseas by a variety of governmental and non-governmental organizations. As part of this preparation, most refugees receive cultural orientation (CO) training
  • Humanitarian Practice Network
    www.odihpn.org
    The Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) is an independent forum where field workers, managers and policymakers in the humanitarian sector share information, analysis and experience.
  • Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees in the UK (ICAR)
    www.icar.org.uk
    ICAR is the only independent centre set up to collect, record, compile and disseminate up to date, comprehensive and academically credible information about refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. It aims to raise the level of public debate and to promote better understanding of the issues. ICAR is located in the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King's College London and is funded by charitable trusts.
  • Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA)
    www.ilpa.org.uk
    ILPA was established in 1984 by a group of leading UK immigration practitioners to: promote and improve the advising and representation of immigrants; provide information to members on domestic and European immigration, refugee and nationality law; and secure a non-racist, non-sexist, just and equitable system of immigration, refugee and nationality law.
  • International Rescue Committee
    www.theirc.org
    The International Rescue Committee is a world leader in relief, rehabilitation, protection, post-conflict development, resettlement services and advocacy for those uprooted or affected by violent conflict and oppression.
  • Jesuit Refugee Service
    www.jrs.net
    The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organisation with a mission is to accompany, serve and defend the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced people.
  • Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
    www.lirs.org
    LIRS is an international organization that envision a world where all communities welcome refugees and migrants.
  • Ockenden International
    www.ockenden.ir
    Ockenden International is a British-based NGO mandated to work with refugees, displaced people, returnees, and their host communities. Its works is primarily focused on the areas affected by war and complex political situations.
  • Red Cross Center for Tortured Refugees
    www.redcross.se
    The Red Cross Center for Tortured Refugees, is currently a foundation, connected to the Swedish Red Cross, and is funded by grants from Stockholm County Council, Stockholm Municipality, the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, the return on foundation capital, project contributions, other smaller contributions, and lecture fees.
  • Refugee Academics
    www.academic-refugees.org
    The aim of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics is to assist university teachers or researchers who have lost their jobs as a result of political, racial or religious discrimination and have become refugees in UK.
  • Refugees International
    www.refugeesinternational.org
    Refugees International generates lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced people around the world, and works to end the conditions that create displacement.
  • Refugee Law Project - Uganda
    www.refugeelawproject.org
    RLP is an organization which ensure the fundamental human rights for all refugees and internally displaced persons within Uganda. Ultimately, we wish Uganda to treat all such people with the same standards of individual respect and social justice that should be applied to the rest of its citizens.
  • Refugee Studies Centre
    www.rsc.ox.ac.uk
    The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) was established in 1982 as part of Queen Elizabeth House, the University of Oxford's Centre for Development Studies. It has since won an international reputation as the leading multidisciplinary centre for research and teaching on the causes and consequences of forced migration.
  • ReliefWeb
    www.reliefweb.int
    ReliefWeb is the world's leading online gateway to information (documents and maps) on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. An independent vehicle of information, designed specifically to assist the international humanitarian community in effective delivery of emergency assistance, it provides timely, reliable and relevant information as events unfold, while emphasizing the coverage of "forgotten emergencies" at the same time. ReliefWeb was launched in October 1996 and is administered by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
  • The Foundation for the Refugee Education Trust
    www.r-e-t.com
    The RET is an independent, impartial, non-partisan organisation, with no religious or political affiliation, purposefully set up to be independent from UNHCR. Although financially independent from UN agencies, we have strategic alliances with both UNHCR and UNESCO - IBE, and welcome other opportunities to deliver our mission with greater strength and magnitude.
  • U.S. Committee for Refugees
    www.refugees.org
    USCR defends the rights of all uprooted people regardless of their nationality, race, religion, ideology, or social group.
  • ECRE - European Council on Refugees and Exiles
    www.ecre.org
    ECRE is a pan-European network of refugee-assisting non-governmental organisations. ECRE is concerned with the needs of all individuals who seek refuge and protection within Europe. Its aim is to promote the protection and integration of refugees in Europe based on the values of human dignity, human rights, and an ethic of solidarity.
  • Norwegian Refugee Council
    www.nrc.no
    The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has worked for displaced persons since 1946. NRC is a private foundation, and one of the largest humanitarian organizations in Norway. NRC has specialized in international activities for refugees and displaced persons.
    Norwegian Refugee Council: Global IDP Project
    www.internal-displacement.org




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