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Brookings Bern Project on Internal Displacement
There are currently 25 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) worldwide in at least 50 countries. The Project on Internal Displacement was created to promote a more effective national, regional, and international response to this global problem and to support the work of the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in carrying out the responsibilities of the mandate.
HREA Refugees and Displaced Persons
Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies. HREA is dedicated to quality education and training to promote understanding, attitudes and actions to protect human rights, and to foster the development of peaceable, free and just communities.
Human Rights Watch: Migrants Page; Refugees Page
Human Rights Watch is the largest human rights organization based in the United States. Human Rights Watch researchers conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world. Human Rights Watch then publishes those findings in dozens of books and reports every year, generating extensive coverage in local and international media.
International Committee on the Red Cross War and Displacement Section
Section on how armed conflict results in large-scale displacement of civilians, both within the frontiers of a country and, as refugees, across international borders; reference material on the problem and illustrations from the field.
Migration Policy Institutes's World Migration Map
Do you want to know where in the world Brazilian migrants go? Ever wondered where Canada's immigrants came from? The World Migration Map Data Tool leverages the unique Global Migrant Origin Database, developed by the University of Sussex's Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty (Migration DRC), so that you can see the origins and destinations of migrants to and from nearly every country in the world.
Refugees International generates lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced people around the world, and works to end the conditions that create displacement.
United Nations Human Rights and Migrants
Human rights are at the heart of migration and should be at the forefront of any discussion on migration management and policies. A comprehensive international framework exists and mechanisms have been created in order to monitor States’ compliance in promoting and respecting human rights of migrants. This site explains the structure the UN has created to monitor these issues.
UNHCR Refugee Story in Statistics
This page provides data, trends and statistical reports on the "People of concern to UNHCR": refugees, asylum-seekers, returned refugees, internally displaced and stateless persons in more than 150 countries.
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