Refugees International
Refugees International is an
NGO headed by Larry Thompson. The organization provides advocacy, assessment, and preventive and supportive actions in three phases of population disruption and deplacement:
- Danger and Flight (Early warning; Protection; Assistance)
- Temporary Asylum (Protection; Adequate funding; Economic assistance for surrounding areas; Environmental protection)
- Return (Demobilization, disarmament, and demining; Humanitarian aid; Voluntary, safe and sustainable repatriation; Reconstruction; Economic development assistance; Reconciliation)
The organization claims a proud record of success in catalyzing lifesaving action by the
US and
UN. In the 1990s they helped galvanize the international response to humanitarian crisis in
Kurdish Iraq,
Bosnia,
Rwanda, and
Sierra Leone. Most recently, it was first on the ground to discover a massive aid shortage for displaced Eritreans, to document the plight of refugees in
Guinea and displaced persons in
Afghanistan, and to advise top policy makers on actions needed to save lives in war-torn
Congo.
External link
Refugees International home page
