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Useful Links

International organizations

Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons (RSG)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
World Food Programme (WFP)
World Health Organization (WHO)
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
United Nations (UN)
World Bank

Regional and sub-regional organizations

African Union (AU)
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (East Africa) (IGAD)
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
Southern African Development Community (SADC)
International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR)

Council of Europe
European Parliament
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)

Organisation of American States (OAS)
Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR)
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

International non-governmental organizations

Care International
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
InterAction
International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Oxfam
Refugees International (RI)
Save the Children
Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children
World Vision

National and regional non-governmental organizations

Balay Rehabilitation Center, Philippines
Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, Sri Lanka (CHA)
Consultoría sobre los derechos humanos y el desplazamiento, Colombia (CODHES)
Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
Georgian Young Lawyers Association
Memorial, Russia
Norwegian Refugee Council, Norway (NRC)
South Asia Forum for Human Rights
Tesev, Turkey

National human rights institutions

Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF)
International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC)

Academic and research sites

Guide to relevant research institutes
Australia - University of New South Wales, Centre for Refugee Research
Bangladesh - University of Dhaka, Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit
Canada - York University, Centre for Refugee Studies
Egypt - American University, Forced Migration and Refugees Study Program
India - Calcutta Research Group
Norway - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Research Group on Forced Migration
South Africa - University of Witwatersrand, Forced Migration Studies Programme
Tanzania - University of Dar-es-Salaam, Centre for the Study of Forced Migration
Uganda - Makarere University, Refugee Law Project
U.K. - Overseas Development Institute, Humanitarian Policy Group
U.K. - University of Oxford, Refugee Studies Centre
U.S.A. - Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
U.S.A. - Georgetown University, Institute for the Study of International Migration
U.S.A. - Johns Hopkins University, The Center for Refugee and Disaster Response
U.S.A - Migration Policy Institute
U.S.A. - Tufts University, Feinstein International Center

Other Resources

Forced Migration Review
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre database
Relief Web