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Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons, and Migrants
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Featured Resources Human Rights Watch: 50 Years On: What Future for Refugee Protection?
 Iraq: The World's Fastest Growing Refugee Crisis Since November 2006, Refugees International has led the call for increased assistance to Iraqi refugees and displaced people.  Unity and Struggle: Right of Return News and Views provides up-to-date, cutting edge news analysis of the struggle for the right of
return, self-determined reconstruction, and reparations in New Orleans
and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.Featured Organizations Refugees International generates lifesaving humanitarian assistance and
protection for displaced people around the world and works to end the
conditions that create displacement.  People's Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition's mission is to win the right of return with equity and justice for all those
displaced as a result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by building a
multi-national mass movement, and to ensure that the civil and human
rights of all New Orleans and Gulf Coast residents are respected and
implemented throughout the United States Al-Awda The Palestine Right to Return Coalition is a broad-based, non-partisan, democratic, and charitable organization of grassroots activists and students committed to comprehensive public education on the rights of all Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands of origin, and to be granted full restitution of all their confiscated and destroyed property.
Did You Know?The displacement of Iraqis from Iraq is now the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world. The UN estimates that nearly 4 million Iraqis have been displaced by violence in their country, the vast majority of which have fled since 2003. Some 1.9 million have vacated their homes for safer areas within Iraq, 2 million are now living in Syria, Jordan, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, and Turkey.- Refugees International Palestinian refugees represent the longest suffering and largest refugee population in the world today. In 2005, there were approximately 7.2 million Palestinian refugees, equivalent to 74% of the entire Palestinian population which is estimated at 9.7 million worldwide. - Al-Awda Factsheet Hundreds of thousands of people are believed to have lost their lives since the Darfur conflict erupted in February 2003. Systematic human rights abuses have occurred, including killing, torture, rape, looting and destroying of property by all parties involved in the conflict, but primarily by the Sudanese government and government-backed Janjawid militia. Though direct government participation in human rights abuses in Darfur has subsided, the Janjawid remains active in Darfur and Eastern Chad, despite the negotiated Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). - Amnesty International: Sudan  |
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