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Decade of Unrest: Unrecognized Rwandan Refugees in Uganda and the Future of Refugee Protection in the Great Lakes (07/04)
NGO Statement on Repatriation and Reingtegration in Africa
North Korea:
U.S. Bill Would Protect North Korean Refugees (6/25/03)
New UNHCR Guidelines
on Cessation (6/03)
Congo: International Action Needed (5/28/03)
Iraq: Post-War Outflow
of People from Iraq Creates Dual Challenge
Iraq:
New UN Guidelines on Iraqi Asylum Seekers Could Undermine Refugee Protection
(4/17/03)
 Conference
on Refugee Protection in Africa (11/02/02)
Refugee
Protection in West Africa
Security
in Refugee Movements
Refugees,
Humanitarianism and Human Rights |
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International Refugee
Program
Continued...
Protecting the human rights of refugees internationally
has been an integral part of the work of Human Rights First since its inception. We have advocated on behalf of
refugees around the world from Vietnamese asylum seekers in Hong
Kong to ethnic Albanians from Kosovo. We have developed expertise
in a range of issues that affect refugees from the right to enter
and seek asylum to repatriation policy and the optimal role of international
institutions such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) and the Organization of African Unity (recently reconstituted
as the African Union).
Our goals are:
- To ensure that the rights
of refugees provided under UN and regional refugee and human rights
law are protected and to identify and address specific situations
in which enjoyment of these rights is in jeopardy;
- To monitor the standard
of refugee protection accorded by national and international institutions
and organizations;
- To contribute to the
development of enhanced legal mechanisms and practices in order
to more effectively tackle new protection challenges;
- To work with local and international non-governmental
organizations (both human rights organizations and relief groups)
to strengthen regional and institutional capacity to deal with
refugee protection concerns.
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