Refugees and internally displaced persons
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ManpowerGroup South Africa Creates Opportunities for Refugees
Manpower South Africa is playing an innovative role in finding labour market solutions for refugees and has placed a total of 10 refugees in 2010 despite South African labour laws that privilege native South Africans. The company has acquired a reputation as the agency to go to for refugees looking...
ManpowerGroup Marks World Refugee Day on 60th Anniversary of UNHCR Refugee Convention
ManpowerGroup is observing World Refugee Day, the 60th anniversary of the founding of the UN refugee convention, to help unleash the human potential of people forced to flee their homes due to persecution, conflict or economic hardship.
Eurolab and Ericsson help install communications in Congo
Two Ericsson employees were sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo on behalf of Ericsson Response. In collaboration with several humanitarian organizations, they established radio communication within the Kalabo region in order to support a UN coordinated de-mining mission.
Action pour les Droits Humains et l'Amitié (ADHA)
Action pour les Droits Humains et l'Amitié (ADHA) is a Senegalese NGO that works for asylum seekers, refugees and internally displaced persons, promoting their rights and also those of all young people in Africa. ADHA provides legal advice on matters relating to matters relating to asylum...
Micro-credit project for Darfur refugees
The Pilot Light Foundation, an organisation that creates and supports small projects in Africa that have the potential to significantly improve the quality of life for impoverished Africans in non urban areas, and the Sudan Self Help Foundation, an NGO that supports projects aimed at promoting...
Air Terminal Gifts and Catholic Community Services provide donations and employment opportunities for refugees
Catholic Community Services (CCS) has, for decades, helped hundreds of refugees start new lives in Utah. Air Terminal Gifts has donated $12,000 to the CCS refugee resettlement program.
Microsoft partners with aid agencies to provide essential technology
In 1999, Microsoft employees from the European offices responded to the Kosovo crisis by creating The Refugee Field Kit - a computer-based method of providing displaced people (most of whom had been stripped of identity papers when fleeing Kosovo) with new official identity cards and an easier...
Caucasus Foundation
The Caucasus Foundation is a non-profit non-governmental organization, carrying out various activities for preserving and fostering socio-cultural relations of the Caucasians living at diasporas or in the Caucasus. Its main goal is to be a resource centre for information, documentation and...
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) - Switzerland
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organisation, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions. The Federation's mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable...
Peace Winds - Japan
Peace Winds Japan (PWJ) is an NGO, dedicated to the support of people in distress, threatened by conflict, poverty, or other turmoil. Beyond national boundaries, PWJ has carried out support activities for refugees who fled their countries, domestic refugees who suffer in their own countries,...
World Food Programme (WFP) - Iran
Set-up in 1963, WFP is the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against global hunger. WFP uses its food to: meet emergency needs and support economic and social development. It also provides the logistics support necessary to get food aid to the right people at the right time and in the...
Reclaim Childhood
Reclaim Childhood is an American NGO that seeks to extend the benefit of sport and play to young women in displaced and underserved communities in Jordan. Since 2008 the organisation has offered organized sports programmes for Iraqi refugee girls aged 8-18, and has also recently opened its...
Caritas Internationalis - Morocco
Caritas Morocco helps national non-governmental organizations to care for and support the most marginalized groups such as the poor, people with physical and learning disabilities, vulnerable women and prisoners. It also runs development and irrigation projects in rural areas. With support from...
Advisory Center for Refugees
The centre works on behalf of the refugee population in Kyrgyzstan, which consists primarily of people from Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Founded in October 1997, the centre serves around 20 refugees a month with legal and social counselling. It has distributed humanitarian aid to more than 760...
Ockenden International
Ockenden International is a UK-based charitable trust established in 1955 to bring displaced people to the UK and to help them achieve self-reliance. Having extended its work to displaced communities around the world in the intervening years, the Trust decided in 2007 to become a grant-making...
Cruz Roja Panameña
Cruz Roja Panameña is a member society of the International Federation of the Red Cross. The organization provides medical and humanitarian assistance during disasters/emergency situations, as well as preparedness training. It is additionally engaged in various community development efforts, such...
Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR)
Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) is the French name for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), an impartial, neutral and independent organisation whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to...
Aid to the Church in Need (UK)
Aid to the Church in Need (UK), a universal pastoral charity of the Catholic Church, aims to help those suffering or persecuted for their Faith. ACN helps persecuted Christians, as well as assisting pastoral projects for schools, refugee services, health care and church buildings. Funds building...
Khalsa Aid
Khalsa Aid is an international non-profit aid and relief organization giving relief assistance to victims of disasters, wars, and other tragic events around the world. It ventures into many parts of the world where humanitarian assistance is needed by providing food and shelter to refugees and...
International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)
The International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA) is a global network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that advocates for effective humanitarian action. Founded in 1962, ICVA brings the experience and views of over 70 national and international NGOs, to international policy-making...