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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
http://www.unicef.org/
(French, Spanish, English)
The
central role of UNICEF in emergencies is to act as an advocate for
children. The organization believes that humanitarian interventions should
be integrated with ongoing programs directed toward children and therefore
focuses its assistance on such interventions as health, nutrition,
immunization, education, water and sanitation.
Website
includes information about UNICEF, mission, programs, activities. Checkout Highlights for
featured programs that may be of interest. Information Resources
and UNICEF in action
may also be of interest.
 http://www.unicef.org/action/
UNICEF in Action provides information about programs and activities.
On the left side tool bar several points of interest are emergencies,
research and evaluation, and supply. Research
and evaluation offers information about UNICEF's division of
Evaluation, Policy, and Planning, and its activities. Supply offers
catalogue of products UNICEF can supply to registered procurement
customers, information on how to become registered, and more general
information on these activities.
http://www.unicef.org/infores/index.html
Information Sources provides links to various materials covering the
areas and countries where UNICEF works. Access to online documents and
speeches, catalogue of orderable publications, answers to frequently asked
questions, and statistical information.
United Nations Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs
http://www.reliefweb.int/ocha_ol/index.html
OCHA has the
mandate to coordinate UN assistance in humanitarian crises that go beyond
the capacity and mandate of any single humanitarian agency.
Website
contains information on agency and its activities. Links to News includes Latest Reports and Publications,
which lists manuals, directories, handbooks, and other OCHA publications on
disaster management, protection, coordination, complex emergencies, and
internal displacement. Humanitarian Training
offer access to a large database of UN and NGO training information and
materials, and it also offers links to other training databases. Link to ReliefWeb is also
available.
http://www.reliefweb.int/ocha_ol/pub/idp_gp/idp.html
Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR)
http://www.unhcr.ch/
UNHCR is
mandated by the United Nations to lead and coordinate international action
for the world-wide protection of refugees and the resolution of refugee
problems.
Web site
provides information about UNHCR, programs, and activities; as well as
general refugee information and news. The website is worth browsing on
onefs own and the home page is pretty descriptive for its categories.
The world offers map and text-based
access to country-specific information about refugees. Issues
offers a topic-specific route to articles about refugee children, the
environment, women's issues. Evaluation and Policy Analysis offers access to UNHCR
reports that can be searched by country, theme, or date. Statistics
related to crisis situations and UNHCR and partner efforts are also
available.
http://www.unhcr.ch/news/news.htm
News includes press releases, news archives, new publications, briefing
news, and country updates. UNHCR
in the News contains the 100 latest news stories on UNHCR and refugees
from around the world.
http://www.unhcr.ch/pubs/pubs.htm
Publications offers online access to Refugees magazine and other
UNHCR publications. Also click on to reference which is an addition to the UN publications
page which provides links to working papers and other documents.
http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/welcome.htm
REFWORLD a collection of full-text databases representing the most
comprehensive and reliable refugee information resource available. UNCHR
and UN documents as well as an impressive refugee literature search.
- http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/pubs/rsq.htm
Refugee Survey Quarterly serves as an authoritative source for
current refugee and country information. Each issue is a combination
of country reports, documents, reviews and abstracts of
refugee-related literature.
http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/refworld/unhcr/hcspeech/menu.htm
Speeches of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
includes a speech by former High Commissioner Sadako Ogata on "Telecommunications in the Service of Humanitarian
Assistance".
http://ww.the-ecentre.net
Regional Centre for Emergency Training in International Humanitarian
Response in Tokyo, Japan.
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and
Children
http://www.womenscommission.org/
An
advocacy and expert organization speaking out on behalf of refugee and
displaced women, children and adolescents around the world. It monitors the
care and protection of refugee women and children provides technical
training. It speaks out on issues of concern to refugee and displaced
women, children and adolescents. It also provides opportunities for refugee
women and youth to speak for themselves through briefings, testimony,
participation in field assessments and international conferences.
Website
provides information on mission, advocacy, and a calendar of events. Reports
available for purchase, some on-line.
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