Links
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- Amnesty International, Norwich Group
- Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. The Norwich Group meets every third Wednesday of the month at the Charing Cross Centre near the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich. All meetings are open to everyone.
- Debbie Campbell, 01603 633275, debbie@thepc138.freeserve.co.uk
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- Asylum Aid
- Providing information on asylum rights research and training. Also holds information on the Refugee Womens Resource Project.
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- Asylum Rights
- Resources relating to recent events, including a set of material and full-text documents concerning UK proposals for transit processing centres and regional protection zones.
- Enabling Christians in Serving Refugees
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- Exile Images
- An unusual photo library devoted to pictures of refugees and development aid complete with photo case stories of refugees from all over the world.
- Great Yarmouth Refugee Outreach and Support
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- Human Rights Watch
- Human Rights Watch, an organisation dedicated to monitoring the human rights conditions in many countries.
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- The Immigration Advisory Service
- The Immigration Advisory Board is concerned the laws and policies involved with asylum seekers and provides legal advice. It offers full training and courses based around this area plus publications and other useful sites.
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- The Information Centre about Asylum & Refugees
- An easy to use website which has up-to-date information about refugees, is currently examining the way asylum issues are treated during the general election and has a long list of available resources.
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- The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
- Set up by the Norwegian Refugee Council, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). Monitors conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide.
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- The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
- JCWI is aimed at combating racism and injustice within asylum law and policy. It provides publications and training materials including several detailed reports and a variety of statistics.
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- KLARS
- King's Lynn Asylum and Refugee Support (KLARS) provides useful information for refugees on immigration, asylum, employment, education, health, language assistance, etc. All information is available in English, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese.
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- MENTER
- MENTER is a regional network of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) voluntary organisations and community groups.
- 01603 617076
- Norwich Interfaith
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- Precious Cargo
- An anthology of songs, stories, poems and non-fiction pieces brought to England by refugees and asylum-seekers. All the texts are presented in English translation, and then in their original language.
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- The US Committee for Refugees
- The home page of the US committee for Refugees. Includes maps, background information and Refugee's stories.
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- British Red Cross
- To provide relief to people in crisis, including short-term care to those affected by personal crisis.
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- Refugee Action
- This site provides clear basic information on asylum, for example about various myths and why people seek asylum. It has a wide selection of resources, including audio-visual, many of which contain refugees own stories.
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- Refugee Council
- Here you can find out about the latest work and activities of the Refugee Council. It also provides ways for you to become involved and useful website links.
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- Refugee Studies Centre
- The Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford provides studies about refugees worldwide.
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- Refugee Week
- This site includes information and activities for teachers and others to use during Refugee Week.
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- Segregation
- This website contains information about refugees as well as opposition to the government's segregation policies and proposals.
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- USA for UNCHR
- This is an american based website which provides a large range of educational resources including teaching plans and games aimed at children and teenagers.
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- UNCHR
- This UN site provides all kind of data and information about refugees worldwide, including their new report The State of the Worlds Refugees 2006.
Asylum in the UK
The history of refugees in Norfolk has shaped distinctive elements of our local identity.
Local Support Groups