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:

1. Danger and Flight (Early warning; Protection; Assistance)
2. Temporary Asylum (Protection; Adequate funding; Economic assistance for surrounding areas; Environmental protection)
3. 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