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Amnesty International

Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (US State Dept.)

Disaster Relief

Global Internally Displaced Persons Project

InterAction (American Council for Voluntary International Action)

International Committee of the Red Cross

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF or Doctors Without Borders)

OneWorld

Relief Web (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)

Scalabrini Migration Center (SMC)

United Nations Children,s Fund (UNICEF)

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

United States Committee for Refugees

Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)

World Food Programme

InterAction (American Council for Voluntary International Action)

http://www.interaction.org/

InterAction, a coalition of 160 U.S. private and voluntary organizations is engaged in international humanitarian efforts including emergency relief, refugee protection, assistance, and resettlement, development, public policy and federal relations, and development education.

Website offers information on agreed standards of member organizations, current activities of all member organizations, advocacy campaigns, and the following:

http://www.multidb.com/interactiontraining/ Programs and courses for disaster response professionals.

http://www.interaction.org/pub/index.html Publications available on line or for purchase.

http://www.interaction.pair.com/disaster/director.html Links page to Disaster response news and resources.

http://www.ourdays.com/security/ NGO security training document

International Committee of the Red Cross

http://www.icrc.org/ (English, French, Spanish)

The mission of The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) directs and coordinates the international relief activities conducted by the Movement in situations of conflict. It also endeavors to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles.

Website contains information about the organization, activities (by subject or country), issues and topics, news (press releases and weekly news articles), documents relating to humanitarian law issues, and a well developed links page.

http://www.icrc.org/eng/publications Publications from Home page. Information about and how to order ICRC publications. Off Press, Coming soon display recent and coming publications from ICRC. Other publications provide online access to Annual Reports, online access to all articles of Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine, and ordering information for publications: Forum and Panorama. List of video resources and CD Rom “International Human Rights Law” also orderable from this section.

Catalogue of ICRC publications (for purchase, some available on web). Subject material includes: Protection and Assistance, War and Health, International Humanitarian Law, Internal Conflicts, Prisoners of War, Tracing and Family Ties, and others

http://www.icrc.org/eng/review International Review of the Red Cross. Its aim is to promote reflection on humanitarian policy and action and on international humanitarian law, while at the same time strengthening the dialogue between the ICRC and other organizations and individuals concerned with humanitarian issues. Information about magazine, contents, some articles, and subscription information is available on-line.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF or Doctors Without Borders)

http://www.msf.org/

MSF is an independent humanitarian medical aid agency committed to two objectives:
providing medical aid wherever it is needed, and raising awareness of the plight of the people they help. MSF works in rehabilitation of hospitals and dispensaries, vaccination programmes and water and sanitation projects. It also provides training of local personnel.

Website includes: information on activities plus press releases, evaluations, and "access to essential medicine" campaign information.

http://www.japan.msf.org/ (Text in French, English and Japanese - French enabler required for Japanese) MSF office in Japan.

http://www.msf.org.hk/ (Text in Chinese - add-on enabler required) MSF office in Hong Kong.

http://www.msf.org/intweb99/library/public.htm MSF Publications available include field manuals (nutrition, medical guidelines, and emergency health).

OneWorld

http://www.oneworld.net/

Oneworld.net is an Internet community of 724 organizations leading the way for human rights and sustainable development worldwide.

Website has the some of the latest news developments on refugees and a valuable search engine to locate information from it and its partner's databases. It also provides information on advocacy campaigns, and a directory of partners organizations.

http://www.oneworld.net/southasia/front.shtml OneWorld South Asia

http://www.oneworld.org/themes/guides/index.html Guides provides lists of links by themes including refugees, child rights, and emergencies. After choosing a subject, links to OneWorld stories on that and related subjects are made available.

http://www.oneworld.org/guides/migration/index.html Peter Stalker's Site includes information on aspects such as refugee language matters, employment, and the impact of emigration.

Relief Web(United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)

http://www.reliefweb.int

ReliefWeb is an electronic clearinghouse for those needing timely information on humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters – designed specifically to help the humanitarian community improve its response to emergencies.

Searchable website offers daily updates on complex emergencies and natural disasters, and has extensive country background information. Large Directory of Humanitarian agencies provides contact information and websites for UN agencies, Governmental organizations, NGOs, academic and resource organizations. Library provides an online archive of humanitarian, human rights and development reference documents related to crisis situations and humanitarian response.

http://www.reliefweb.int/training/index.html Humanitarian Assistance Training Inventory contains information on training activities and manuals of many different organizations. Search by organization, date, country, or keyword. Keywords include refugee, emergency management, shelter/site planning, logistics, early warning, and coordination. Links to other training databases and funding resources are also available.

http://www.reliefweb.int/hcic/ Humanitarian Community Information Center (HCIC) promotes and facilitates coordination by serving as an information focal point for local and international NGOs, UN and other inter-governmental agencies, donors and KFOR for Kosovo relief operations. Their website offers information on a variety of topics related to the Kosovar effort including access to their GIS/Map and Data coordination unit, which provides information on pcodes, GIS and other map technologies.

·         http://www.reliefweb.int/hcic/maps/pcodes.htm Pcodes, Spatial Data Standards for Kosovo provides information on what Pcodes are and how they are used.

http://www.reliefweb.int/telecoms/ Emergency Telecommunications Information and resources available for the provision of emergency telecommunications during relief operations. Includes an introduction to general information on emergency telecommunications and links. Operational and technical information includes manuals, documents, reports, and links to related sites and suppliers. Trainings provides information on different trainings, conferences, and provides access to training manuals (some on line, others are orderable).

·         http://www.reliefweb.int/telecoms/tampere/index.html Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations.

·         WGET - Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications  provides information about group, email subscription for updates, and links to participants.

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