AlertNet

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

Scalabrini Migration Center (SMC)

http://www.scalabrini.org/~smc/

The SMC is a non-profit research institute established in 1987 and based in Quezon City, Philippines. SMC is dedicated to encourage and facilitate the study of socio-demographic, economic, political, psychological, historical, legislative and religious aspects of human migration and refugee movements from and within Asia.

Website includes information about SMC, Data on Asian Migration (by country), a Directory of NGOs for Migrant Workersin Asia (by country), and Asian Migration News (bi-weekly updates). The website also contains subscription information and table of contents for two SMC journals: Asian Migrant(yearly) and Asian and Pacific Migration (quarterly). Asian Migrant is specifically targeted toward field workers, activists, NGO associates, and researchers; and often contains articles on area refugee populations. A library catalog will also be available online in the future.

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 Sources Sources 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/emerg/index.html Under Emergencies (left side toolbar) find information specific to emergency activities, emergency updates, and appeals. Countries in crisis provides country specific information with past press releases, situation reports, maps, and links to other websites. Humanitarian Issues offers links to documents related to UNICEF’s work in emergencies and Reference Library provides lists of references and other concerned websites.

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 offers 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)

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 Newscontains 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.





United States Committee for Refugees

http://www.refugees.org/

Advocacy group for refugees' rights and protection.

Website includes information about organization, activities, and programs. News and Resources (located on left sidebar) provides access to editorials, press releases, and directories of different players in the humanitarian assistance arena.

http://www.refugees.org/world/worldmain.htm Worldwide Refugee Information provides statistics and information on individual country situations and refugee populations. Search issues for topics like internally displaced persons, women and children, and protection. Also In the Field provides first hand accounts from those in the field and Refugee Voices provides opportunities to communicate with refugees.

pre

next