Web Links

• About.Com: Human Guides, Human Interests
• American Refugee Committee
• Amnesty International - Child Refugees
• British Refugee Council
• CRIN's Desk on Children in Armed Conflict and Displacement
• Europa World- Refugee page
• European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
• European Migration Center
• Exile Images
• Human Rights Watch - Children's Rights Division: Protecting Refugees Home Page
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• Interagency Consultation on Humanitarian Assistance and Refugees
• International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• International Rescue Committee
• Open Society Institute: Forced Migration Projects (Soros)
• Oxford University Refugee Studies Programme
• Refugees International
• Refugee Law Project
• Refworld
• The Norwegian Refugee Council
• UNHCR
• U.S. Committee for Refugees
• Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
• World Refugee

Other Information

• Global Refugee Statistics (UNHCR)
• Biography on refugee children (Compiled by Mosfeka Chowdhury, UNHCR Consultant, with the collaboration of Geneviève Bador and Anne Skatvedt)
• Children as refugees (UNHCR)
• Internally Displaced Persons (UNHCR)
• Refugee Maps for Zaire, Rwanda, and Burundi
• Pictures of Kosovar Refugees

Articles and Analysis

• Education, leadership crucial for refugee girls and women (UNHCR) (March 8, 2005)
• Victims of Asian Wars Lack Protection, Hope (The Washington Post) (July 2, 2003)
• Nowhere To Turn: State abuses of unaccompanied migrant children by Spain and Morocco (Human Rights Watch) (May 2002)
• Full Report - Sexual Violence and Exploitation: The Experience of Refugee Children in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone (Save the Children and UNHCR) (Initial Findings and Recommendations from Assessment Mission, 22 October - 30 November 2001)
• The Road to Refuge (BBC analysis for World Refugee Week, 23-29 June 2001)
• Children, Conflict and Asylum (Ms Maj-Inger Klingvall)
• UNHCR at 50: What future for refugee protection? (Human Rights Watch) (Need Acrobat Reader - PDF format)
• UN appeal for displaced people (BBC) (October 24, 2000)
• Internally Displaced Persons: The Role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (March 6, 2000)
• The State of The World's Refugees: in search of solutions (UNHCR) (1995)
• Bibliography of sources on refugee children
• A Stolen Future: Protecting the rights of refugee children (Amnesty International) (1997)
• Humanitarian Report 1997 Internally displaced people (United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs)

International Law and Standards

• Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951)
• Protocol Relating To the Status of Refugees (1967)
• Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
• Addis Ababa Document on Refugees and Forced Population Displacements in Africa
• Statute of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (GA Res. 428(V) of 14 December 1950)

Country/Region Specific Information

Burundi

• Burundian Refugees in Tanzania: The Key Factor to the Burundi Peace Process (International Crisis Group) (November 30, 1999)

Croatia

• Serb refugees return to poverty and pain (BBC) (May 20, 2003)

Guinea

• Guinea: Refugees must not be forced to choose between death in Sierra Leone or death in Guinea (Amnesty International) (April 5, 2001)

Kenya

• Kenya: Refugee children murdered at "secure residence" in Nairobi (Human Rights Watch) (April 23, 2002)

Kosova

• Images of Children in Kosovo (The Washington Post)
• Relief Camps for Africans and Kosovars: Worlds Apart (T. Christian Miller, Ann M. Simmons, Times Staff Writers)

Liberia

• Tracing Liberia's lost generation (BBC) (January 7, 2003)

Rwanda

• Refugees In Rwanda

Tanzania

• Tanzania: Violence against Women Refugees (Human Rights Watch) (September 26, 2000)

United Kingdom

• 'End child detention' says report (BBC) (February 28, 2005)
• Refugee and asylum seeking children (UNICEF UK Committee)
• Refugee Children: A safe haven in the UK? (Amnesty International)

Western Europe

• Refugees: Western Europe Weakening Protections (Human Rights Watch, December 12, 2000)

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