United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. http://www.unhcr.ch/
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/
Doctors without Borders. About the world's largest private humanitarian relief organization. http://www.msf.org/
CARE. An organization that seeks "to relieve human suffering, to provide economic opportunity, to build sustained capacity for self-help, and to affirm the ties of human beings everywhere." http://www.care.org/index.html
Malaysian Red Crescent. One of the 171 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies that forms the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. http://www.charity.org.my/mrcs/html/fr_mrcs.html
"Fridtjof Nansen: A life in the service of science and humanity." His childhood and youth, across Greenland on skis, the voyage of the Fram, politics and diplomacy, the repatriation of prisoners of war, the refugees, famine in Russia, the man and his work and quotes from Nansen. http://www.tjener.uninett.no/~fni/christ.htm
Former Yugoslavia. About the war, a journal by an observer, with pictures. http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~davenpj/Text/croatia.html
About the League of Nations: Introduction, how the League functioned, the Covenant, Executive Organs, Membership, Failures and Accomplishments. http://www.library.miami.edu/gov/League.html
Charter of the United Nations http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/aunchart.htm
Mahatma Gandhi. Brief biography. Links to chronology and writings. http://www.itihaas.com/modern/gandhi-profile.html
Index site to links about Martin Luther King, Jr. Includes essays, art displays, projects and associated sites. http://www.tigertown.com/mlking.htm
Biography of Albert Schweitzer. Official homepage of the Internationalen Association (AISL). Information about his life, times and opinions. Includes writings. http://www.schweitzer.org/english/aseind.htm
Brief biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, with related links. http://www.academic.marist.edu/fdr/eleanor.htm
Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Very brief biography in French. http://www4.nicematin.fr/journal/MairieExpo/TouPres/VGE.html
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. Very brief biography. http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/juliana.html
"One Family's Ordeal: During the war, Serbs saved these Muslims. As Sarajevo violently reunifies, they return the favour." More background information for scenarios. http://www.pathfinder.com/@@zxYYtgUAhyi09arC/time/magazine/domestic/1996/960401/bosnia.html
Current emergency situation and major relief issues for Ethiopia. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/eue_web/docs/kit_96.htm
Vietnam boat people in Hong Kong. Basic information about the return of Vietnam boat people from Hong Kong. http://www.sala.or.jp/Shangri-La/hongkong/HK97064.html
Geneva Convention: 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (28 July 1951). http://www.ufsia.ac.be/~dvanheul/genconv.html
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. An independent tribunal established by the Parliament of Canada, whose mission "on behalf of Canadians, is to make well-reasoned decisions on immigration and refugee matters, efficiently, fairly and in accordance with the law." http://www.irb.gc.ca/
Text to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4307/
The Singh decision-listed by the UNHCR. http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/legal/refcas/hcr0094.htm |