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Al-Awda - Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Their advocacy includes the right of Palestinians to return to their homeland, and to full restitution of all their confiscated and destroyed property in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International law and implementation of United Nations Resolutions which uphold these rights.
American Refugee Committee - ARC
ARC works for the survival, health, and well-being of refugees, displaced persons, and those at risk, and seeks to enable them to rebuild productive lives of dignity and purpose, striving always to respect the values of those served.
Asian Migrant Centre (AMC)
Regional organisation focuses on Asian migrant workers' concerns.
Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS)
The Centre, at the University of Oxford, conducts research in order to develop theory and knowledge, inform public opinion and contribute to policy debates on migration.
December 18 - Solidarity with Migrants
December 18 is a multi-lingual human-rights portal named after the International Day of Solidarity with Migrants, initiated in 1997 by Filipino and other Asian migrant organizations. It was on December 18, 1990 that the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families was approved by the UN General Assembly. "December 18" supports migrant organizations in different regions using the Internet as a tool to focus on the situation of migrant workers, especially migrant women, in the broader context in which migration occurs. The portal contains information and links to refugee rights, processes of regularisation, trafficking, globalisation and international development issues. With the portal in Belgium, this virtual worldwide network of organization and individuals promotes UN human rights mechanisms, as well as regional initiatives in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa.
Electronic Immigration Network - EIN
Links and information useful for asylum seekers and immigrants, students, journalists and others.
European Research Centre on Migration and Ethinc Relations (ERCOMER)
Research centre with a interest in comparative research in the fields of international migration, ethnic relations, racism and ethnic conflict within the European context. The Netherlands.
Eye to Eye
The Eye-to-Eye project was developed specifically for the purpose of allowing Palestinian children, who are isolated within refugee camps with little means of communicating with the outside world, to express themselves creatively and share their work with their peers around the world. Eye to Eye is a project of Save the Children UK.
Forced Migration Review
FMR serves the humanitarian community by providing a practice-oriented forum for debate on issues facing refugees and internally displaced people in order to improve policy and practice and to involve refugees and IDPs in programme design and implementation.
Global IDP Project
They work to improve the response to the protection and assistance of internally displaced persons.
Immigration Index
Immigration Index focuses on all matters relating to immigration through hundreds of resources relating to: asylum and refugees, conflict, country data, deportation, detention, discrimination, funding, gender, government, human rights, human trafficking, legal, media, migration and studies, with new catagories and links being added on a regular basis.
Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies
Interdisciplinary research institute of the University of Amsterdam.
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
The IRC is a voluntary agency providing assistance to refugees around the world.
International Rescue Committee - IRC
The IRC is a voluntary agency providing assistance to refugees around the world.
Jesuit Refugee Service - JRS
Organisation dedicated to work defending the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced people.
Kalayaan
It is an independent coalition of people and organisations that includes migrant and immigrant support organisations, trade unions, law centres and concerned individuals.
Norwegian Refugee Council - NRC
The NRC has specialized in international activities for refugees and displaced persons and executes projects in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe.
Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet
They work improving the dissemination of ideas and scholarly information, in an effort to foster scholarly collaboration, policy research, and innovative thinking on the Palestinian refugee issue.
Palestinian Return Centre
It specializes in the research, analysis, and monitor of issues pertaining to the dispersed Palestinians and their right to return. It also serves as an information repository on other related aspects of the Palestine Question and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
PARinAC, NGO-UNHCR
Through the PARinAC process, NGOs and UNHCR aim to develop a more coherent and comprehensive approach in improving their partnership in refugee protection and assistance.
Refugees International (RI)
Organization serving refugees, displaced persons, and other dispossessed people around the world.
The Global Campaign for Ratification of the Convention on Rights of Migrants
This site was set up by the International Steering Committee for the Campaign for Ratification of the Migrants Rights Convention.
Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Relations
This site is part of the much larger World Wide Web Virtual Library project.
Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children
The Commission is a resource and advocacy organization that monitors the care and protection of refugee women and children.
 
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AMC operates as a monitoring, research, information, publishing, training, support and action center dedicated to the promotion of the human rights and empowerment of migrant workers and their families in Asia.

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Selected news
Migration /Gender - Tue Aug 19 2008
Border thinking on migration, culture, economy and sex
Migrants are commonly seen as both unwanted intruders and powerless victims, but Laura Agustín own ideas work to break down this duality and think about power in different ways.
Source: Laura Agustín

Human Rights /Migration - Tue Jul 15 2008
Relocation of Palestinian refugees to Sudan is not a lasting solution
Refugees International called on the U.S. government to urgently resettle 3,000 Palestinian refugees from the Syria-Iraqi border in response to announcements that the vulnerable population would be relocated to Sudan.
Source: Refugees International

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