Refugees and internally displaced persons
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Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response 2018 edition
Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, a 2018 revised handbook of The Sphere Project, sets out minimum standards for four sectors: water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion; food security and nutrition; shelter, settlement and non-food items; and health action.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Management of Social Transformations Programme
UNESCO Management of Social Transformations Programme website has a database of best practices, information explaining best practices and links to other best practice information.
Guiding Principles on Internally Displaced Persons
The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement restate and compile human rights and humanitarian law relevant to internally displaced persons.
Business Contributions to UN Emergency Relief Efforts: An Orientation Guide
Business Contributions to UN Emergency Relief Efforts: An Orientation Guide describes the role of various UN agencies during an emergency, and identifies ways in which companies can support relief efforts in a timely and appropriate manner, through cash contributions, in-kind donations, or...
Refugee Experience: Psychosocial Training Module
The Refugee Experience Psychosocial Training Module is a learning package designed for humanitarian workers and refugee policy makers who do not necessarily have a professional background in the social sciences. The content reflects areas of concern that are helpful to be sensitive to in refugee...
European Summer School on EU Law and Policy on Immigration and Asylum, Brussels, 4-15 July 2011
The Summer School is an initiative of the Odysseus Network, an academic network established to carry out analysis of and research on the legislation of EU member states relating to immigration and asylum. The Summer School included seminars covering the relevant legislation of the 21 member...
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - A pictorial history
This website shows more than 50 turbulent years in pictures – UNHCR’s role in refugee crises and the struggle for survival of one of the world’s most vulnerable groups.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - Resources
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) publishes materials for different audiences on all aspects of the refugee experience and maintains an extensive library of its publications and related information. Through the UNHCR website it is possible to access handbooks...
United Nations Assistance Misssion for Iraq (UNAMI)
The United Nations Assistance Misssion for Iraq (UNAMI) hosts a web portal for UN agencies and NGOs working in Iraq.
Microcredit and other loan programs in protracted refugee situations
Aid agencies recognise the need to support refugees’ own efforts to pursue livelihoods, but there are few livelihoods resources available. Microcredit and other types of loan programs have not been widely attempted, because refugees and IDPs are considered too geographically unstable –...
UNICEF Corporate Partnerships - Examples
UNICEF Corporate Partnerships - Examples, a series of web pages, details UNICEF's corporate partnerships with a range of companies.