resources :: links
Websites
Against All Odds
www.playagainstallodds.com
A UNHCR video game about refugee experiences aimed at 14 year olds. The site includes web facts, an introduction to teachers and teacher's resources.
Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org
Maps, case study, country profiles and campaign information
Amnesty International Teach
www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=301
Activities, games
A Just Australia
www.ajustaustralia.com
An awareness campaign pushing for just treatment of asylum seekers and refugees in Australia.
Asylum Seeker Project - Hotham Mission
http://asp.hothammission.org.au
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
www.asrc.org.au
Australian Red Cross
www.redcross.org.au
BBC - The Road to Refuge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/road_to_refuge
Useful for refugee stories, 50 years of world conflicts and refugees, images of refugees around the world, persecution, life in a foreign land, clickable guide to comparing asylum in different countries, photo diary life in a camp, download radio 'UNHCR chief Rudd takes your questions', the way ahead and the world service radio.
BBC News
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=all&go=homepage&q=refugee&scope=all
British Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org.uk/children/Standard.asp?id=35604
Children in Conflict, Secondary Resource 2 & 3 (date of last retrieval 5/11/2007)
Chilout - Children Out of Detention
www.chilout.org
Events, lesson plans, drawings by children in detention centers, photos of detention centers, facts vs. myths, alternatives, the UN convention, quotable quotes, articles, reports and booklists.
Campaign Against the Arms Trade
www.caat.org.uk
Campaign Against the Arms Trade - working for the reduction and ultimate abolition of the international arms trade. Up to date information and campaign actions. Links to many other related websites.
Control Arms
www.controlarms.org
The largest ever campaign against arms - jointly run by Amnesty International, Oxfam and IANSA (International Action Network on Small Arms). The website has many ideas for straightforward ways to get involved and take action.
Cool Planet
www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet
Comprehensive resource for students covering issues such as poverty, fair trade, refugee and conflict issues.
Department of Immigration and citizenship
www.immi.gov.au
Note: No longer the Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
Department of Immigration and Citizenship - Statistics document
www.immi.gov.au/media/publications/statistics/popflows2005-6/Ch2pt4.pdf [PDF 180KB]
Facts and Myths sheet
www.refugeeaction.org
Global Eye
www.globaleye.org.uk
A useful website for children. The archives contain ideas for learning about refugees.
Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org
Human rights information by country, campaigns and images
Humanitarian Accountability Project
www.hapinternational.org/en/pages.php?IDcat=10
Immigration Index
www.immigrationindex.org
Immigration Museum
www.museumvictoria.com.au/ImmigrationMuseum/Education
Education programs and resources
International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA)
www.iansa.org
Information and campaign suggestions. Part of the Control Arms campaign.
International Committee of the Red Cross
www.icrc.org
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
www.internal-displacement.org
Maps, statistics, case studies and documents on internally displaced peoples
IRIN News
www.irinnews.org
Literacy Trust: EAL multiculturalism and international issues
www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/EALres.html
Useful guide to resources
Nine Million
www.ninemillion.org
A UNHCR campaign aiming to provide education plus recreational and sporting programs for the nine million refugee children around the world by 2010. The site includes a video gallery and stories about child refugees around the world.
One World
www.oneworld.net
Oxfam Australia
www.oxfam.org.au
Oxfam Australia - Refugee Realities Project
www.oxfam.org.au/refugee-realities
Contains a wealth of educational resources for students and teachers to do with humanitarian crisis, refugee rights and asylum seekers.
Oxfam Australia - Change Your World
www.oxfam.org.au/change-your-world
Contains all the tools you need to get active around issues of poverty, indigenous rights, fighting climate change, refugee rights and other key justice issues of our time.
Oxfam UK - Education Resources
www.oxfam.org.uk/education
Peace Child International
www.peacechild.org
QCA Respect for All
www.qca.org.uk/qca_6753.aspx
Racism no way
www.racismnoway.com.au
Refugee Action Committee
www.refugeeaction.org
Myth busters sheets, facts sheets, what you can do, newsletter, refugee stories, inside a detention centre, alternatives to detention, how Australia violates human rights
Refugee Council of Australia
www.refugeecouncil.org.au/arp
Advocacy Help Kit, Australia's refugee programme including program overview, services for refugees, facts and stats, FAQs
Refugee Realities - Oxfam Australia
www.oxfam.org.au/refugee-realities
Refugees International
www.refugeesinternational.org
Responsibility to Protect
www.responsibilitytoprotect.org
Reuters Alertnet
http://www.alertnet.org
Save the Children - Back to School
www.savethechildren.org.uk/backtoschool
Save the Children rightangle magazine
www.savethechildren.org.uk/rightangle
Save the Children Scotland - Welcoming Web Schools Pack
www.savethechildren.org.uk/welcomingweb
Put together by Save the Children Scotland, the Scottish Refugee Council and IDEAS for schools in Scotland.
The Sphere Project
www.sphereproject.org
The Sphere Project was launched in 1997 by a group of humanitarian NGOs and the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm
The United Nations
www.un.org
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
www.unhcr.org
UNHCR Statistics Online
www.unhcr.org/statistics
Statistics on refugees, IDPs and other persons of concern to the UNHCR
UNHCR for teaching
www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/?Table=MENUS&id=4072c8174&page=help
UNHCR passages game
www.usaforunhcr.org/usaforunhcr/uploadedfiles/Passages.pdf [PDF 220KB]
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
www.ochaopt.org
United Nations World Food Program
www.wfp.org/english
US Committee for Refugees
www.refugees.org
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
www.womenscommission.org
University of New South Wales, Centre for Refugee Research
www.crr.unsw.edu.au/documents/Kakuma%20reportShort.pdf [PDF 55KB]
Field Trip, Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Online videos
Between Two Stones - February 2006
Produced by: IRIN News www.irinnews.org/filmtv.aspx
In February 1996, the first shots of Nepal's civil war rang out across the Himalayas. Ten years on, more than 12,000 people have lost their lives as Nepal's ruling monarchy battles with Maoist rebels seeking to establish a communist republic.
Transcript - www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=61002
Video [English] - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/131220061.wmv Duration: 20:41
Video [English] - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/131220064.ram
Congo's Curse - July 2006
Produced by: IRIN News www.irinnews.org/filmtv.aspx
In 1998 war broke out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Since then, ountless millions of people have been displaced, denied an education or access to health care. As many as four million people have lost their lives.
Transcript - www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=61006
Video [English] - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/131220064.wmv Duration: 15:53
Video [Français] - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/131220065.wmv
Video [English] - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/131220067.ram
Video [Français] - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/131220068.ram
Fall Out Boy - 2007
Produced by: Fall Out Boy and Universal Music
www.universalmusic.com/video/1283279855#player-anchor
Rock music video clip - "I'm like a lawyer with the way I'm always…"
From North to South: Sudan's displaced head home - April 2006
Produced by: IRIN News www.irinnews.org/filmtv.aspx
When Sudan's warring factions signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in January 2005, millions of southerners displaced by the war started to plan their long journey home. But a stark reality awaits these people as they return to a region devoid of services and utterly devastated by war.
Transcript - www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=61003
Video - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/131220062.wmv Duration: 15:30
Video - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/131220065.ram
Fields of Fire: Cluster bombs in Lebanon - November 2006
Produced by: IRIN News www.irinnews.org/filmtv.aspx
As many as one million unexploded cluster bombs litter southern Lebanon following the recent war with Israel. In the first two months after the war ended more than a hundred people have been killed or injured by these munitions.
Transcript - www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=62244
Video [English] - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/131220068.wmv Duration: 11:53
Video [Arabic] - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/01022007.wmv
Video [English] - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/1312200611.ram
Peace Under Fire: Sudan's Darfur Crisis - May 2004
Produced by: IRIN News www.irinnews.org/filmtv.aspx
Against the background of peace talks aimed at ending more than two decades of civil war in Sudan, a vicious new civil conflict erupted in the western province of Darfur in early 2003. Tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced.
Transcript - www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=60993
Video - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/07122006.wmv Duration: 15:33
Video - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/041220062.ram
Picking up the pieces (Northern Uganda) - October 2007
Produced by: IRIN News www.irinnews.org/filmtv.aspx
After two decades of war and displacement, it is dawning on the people of northern Uganda, they have a chance to go home. A cautious return - step by step - as peace talks progress. But how will people settle the past - with forgiveness or retribution?
Transcript - www.IRINnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74572
Video - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/02102007.wmv Duration: 22:27
Video - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/02102007.ram
Somalia: A State of Need - December 2006
Produced by: IRIN News www.irinnews.org/filmtv.aspx
After years of conflict and isolation, Somalia finds itself once more in turmoil. Much of the country was under the control of the Union of Islamic Courts, until their recent defeat.
Transcript - www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=62863
Video - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/19122006.wmv
Video - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/19122006.ram
The Shadows of Peace: Life after the LRA - September 2006
Produced by: IRIN News www.irinnews.org/filmtv.aspx
In Northern Uganda the bells of peace are starting to ring out. But after two decades of death, displacement and trauma, the obstacles on the path toward peace could be just as challenging as the war itself.
Transcript - www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=61008
Video - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/131220067.wmv Duration:14:48
Video - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/1312200610.ram
The Long Journey Home: Angola's Refugee Return - February 2005
Produced by: IRIN News www.irinnews.org/filmtv.aspx
In April 2002, Angola's 30 year civil war finally came to an end. And with the advent of peace millions of Angolans displaced by the fighting began to make the long journey home to an uncertain future.
Transcript - www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=60997
Video - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/071220066.wmv Duration: 15:25
Video - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/041220068.ram
Uganda's Forgotten Emergency: The Unholy Terror of The Lord's Resistance Army - August 2003
Produced by: IRIN News www.irinnews.org/filmtv.aspx
Since 1986, northern Uganda has been devastated by the rebel insurgency of the Lords Resistance Army. Displacement, the forced recruitment of child soldiers and widespread atrocities are the hallmarks of the conflict.
Transcript - www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=60992
Video - www.irinnews.org/audiofiles/041220061.ram Duration: 12:12
Welcome to Kakuma - 2002
Produced by: Austcare/Centre for Refugee Research www.crr.unsw.edu.au/crr_shop.html
20 minutes ($30 purchase) or you can download a suitable 2 minute introduction to the film for free. Looks at life in Kakuma refugee camp on the Kenya-Sudan border and the work of the Don Bosco Vocational team in the camp.