War and Refugees links

World Refugee Survey 2007
(Great basic statistics on refugees!)
http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1941

The ICRC Code of Conduct
(If time permits, we would like to talk about humanitarian ethics and accountability in class, but the ICRC Code of Conduct should be read by everyone working in the humanitarian field)
http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/conduct/code.asp

UNHCR: Basic Facts
(UNHCR is the UN agency mandated to provide protection and assistance to refugees. This page gives a good basic introduction to the agency.
http://www.unhcr.org/basics.html

Human Rights Watch: Child Soldiers
(Good starting point to get an introduction to the problem of child soldiers; the site also has a compilation of reports on child soldiers.)
http://hrw.org/campaigns/crp/index.htm

Invisible Children
(We'll be playing parts of this documentary on child soldiers in Uganda in class, but here's the entire version.)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3166797753930210643

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