Resources for human rights professionals
Resources for human rights professionals |
| UNHCR self-training guide: An Introduction to International Protection - http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/publ/opendoc.pdf?tbl=PUBL&id=3ae6bd5a0 Protecting Persons of Concern to UNHCR: A Self-Study Module. - [Read more] |
| UNHCR publications: refugee protection - http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/publ Collection of UNHCR's downloadable manuals on refugee protection. - [Read more] |
| UNHCR: Protecting Refugees: A Field Guide for NGOs - http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/LGEL-5E6MH9/$FILE/unhcr-fieldguideref-sep99.pdf?OpenElement With particular focus on NGOs, this field guide aims to make core, legal concepts underpinning the protection of refugees accessible to the lay reader. It considers signs of possible protection problems during each phase of a refugee’s life and suggests specific actions to be undertaken to address those problems. - [Read more] |
| Refugee Studies Centre article collection - http://www.reliefweb.int/library/RSC_Oxford/data/theme-protection-01.htm A collection of articles on refugee protection produced by the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre over the apst five years. - [Read more] |
| European country of origin information network - http://www.ecoi.net/ Ecoi.net collects and structures country resources with a specific focus on the needs of asylum lawyers, professional and volunteer refugee counsels as well as persons deciding on claims for asylum and other forms of international protection. Useful to analyse the situation in a given country in terms of security and repression. - [Read more] |
| Reliefweb refugee thematic page - http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/doc207?OpenForm&query=3&cat=Refugees Listing of recent news articles related to refugees. Very useful. - [Read more] |
| Refugees International policy pages - http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/issue/ Refugees International has developed a policy recommendations for a number of issues related to refugees and IDPs: disarmament and demobilisation, return and reintrgration, child-specific issues, stateless people, moving from relief to development, and more. - [Read more] |
| UNHCR: Refworld - http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home?id=3ebf8ef14&page=research Large selection of refugee policy documents, national legislation, and country reports. - [Read more] |
| Forced Migration Online - http://www.forcedmigration.org/ Comprehensive web site that provides access to a diverse range of relevant information resources on forced migration: digital library, archives of specialized journals, web links database, organisation contact database, even photos. Gigantic. Managed by Oxford's Refugee Study Centre. - [Read more] |
| HRW section on refugees - http://hrw.org/doc/?t=refugees&document_limit=0,2 All Human Rights Watch documentation related to refugees. - [Read more] |
| Forced Migration Review - http://www.fmreview.org/welcome.htm practice-oriented forum for debate on issues facing refugees and internally displaced people. Searchable archive of back issues. Appears three times a year. Produced by Oxford Refugee Studies Centre together witt Norwegian Refugee Council. - [Read more] |
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