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Defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced persons worldwide.
http://www.refugees.org

Describes one individual's three frustrating and unsuccessful attempts to leave the United States and secure political asylum in Europe.
http://www.angelfire.com/nj/jhgraf/hardreal.html

Allows users to actively explore the refugee experience from the time of arrival to the point of decision and to compare the processing models used in Australia and Canada.
http://www.survival-comparisons.org.au/

Provides information and ideas on refugee integration themes such as education, language, health and voluntary return.
http://www.refugeenet.org/

Find out how 39 million people are forced to live today by learning about the basic needs in a refugee camp and hearing the personal stories of refugees and relief workers.
http://refugeecamp.org/

Speech in the German Bundestag on the occasion of proposed changes to German asylum law, April 30, 1992.
http://www.bln.de/k.weiss/te_asyl.htm

Non-profit organization providing free legal representation and advice for the Central American community in Los Angeles.
http://www.elrescate.org

Organization that supports the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
http://www.al-awda.org.uk

Provides information on immigrant and refugee related policies in Illinois and on a national level. Reports, newsletters, links, action alerts and other resources are posted.
http://www.icirr.org

Supports refugees of the Afghanistan war. Provides support in health, training, vocation and education to Afghanis, the largest number of single nation refugees in the world.
http://www.angelfire.com/ok4/afghanistan

Published three times a year in English, Spanish and Arabic by the Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford. FMR enables academics, practitioners, refugees, and IDPs to share information and experience.
http://www.fmreview.org.

Based in Prague, the Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU) provides social counseling and legal counseling to asylum seekers and recognized refugees staying on the territory of the Czech Republic.
http://www.opu.cz

Interviews, testimonials, audio, slide show, and articles about people seeking refuge from war, persecution or disaster.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english.../2001/road_to_refuge/default.stm

Photographs and analysis of Bhutanese refugees living in UNHCR camps in Nepal.
http://www.geocities.com/ben_saul

A series of articles on refugees, asylum and immigration politics. Including latest news, analysis and external links.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Refuge...in_Britain/0,2759,180745,00.html

Australian stories and songs by refugees about the odyssey of refugees.
http://www.brisbane-stories.webc...m.au/scatteredpeople/default.htm

Annual report on refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and internally displaced persons
http://hrw.org/wr2k2/refugees.html

Non-profit organization formed to raise funding for, and awareness of North Korean refugees who have escaped the political oppression and depression of Communist North Korea. Online petition.
http://www.snkr.org

Provides links to news, information and other sources of refugee and asylum rights.
http://www.asylumrights.net/

Details efforts of Austin College to raise funds for the African Hope School for Sudanese Refugees in Cairo, Egypt.
http://hometown.aol.com/dorsenjc/pages/africanhopeschool.html

Organization promoting United States support for the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
http://www.usaforunhcr.com/

Group of grass-roots organizations that support free migration and abolishment of borders and deportations.
http://www.noborder.org/

Provides access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide.
http://www.forcedmigration.org/

Information regarding current issues of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia.
http://www.freewebs.com/aussierefugees/

Company providing policy research, evaluation and consulting services dedicated to issues of immigration control and asylum policy.
http://www.eurasylum.org/

Independent humanitarian organization whose aim is to protect refugees in the world and Denmark through relief work, documentation, counseling, integration, language schools, repatriation and voluntary work.
http://www.drc.dk

Site dedicated to New Zealand refugee law. Provides full text search in Refugee Status decisions, Appeals and High Court decisions, Statistics, etc.
http://www.refugee.org.nz/

Legal directory and search engine - legislation, case-law, journals, law reform, by country and subject.
http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/3061.html

A Guide to International Refugee Law Resources on the Web.
http://www.llrx.com/features/refugee.htm

An independent source of information about the way the UN refugee agency decides refugee cases.
http://www.rsdwatch.org/

Since 1980 thousands fleeing oppression have sought protection from deportation in sanctuary though they lack residency permits.
http://www.matthias-morgenstern.de/topic_uk.html