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United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
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 one’s
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.
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