Refugees Learning Quest: Locate

This page provides background resources to support the Refugees Global Learning Quest.

Refugees

	Visit a Refugee Camp
	14 million refugees and up to 25 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) live in temporary shelters throughout the world. Medecins Sans Frontieres USA takes us on on virtual tour of a refugee camp to learn about the basic of shelter, food, water, sanitation, and health care and hear personal sto...
	Anatomy of a Refugee Camp
	Explore a typical refugee camp and examine its many parts. Every camp is different since every situation is different. In most cases proper design of a camp isn't possible because refugees have already settled on a site. In this case aid agencies look at how to improve the camp or decide if the popu...

	Beyond The Fire
	Beyond The Fire, introduces the real life stories of 15 teenagers, now living in the U.S., who have survived war in seven war zones. These stories tel...
	Road to Refuge
	This special report from the BBC tells the stories behind the statistics, using first-person testimonies and in-depth interviews to trace the journey ...

Sudan

	Sudan (UNHCR)
	Background information on the refugee situation in Sudan from UNHCR the UN refugee agency. This site includes news, operations, statistics, funding, analysis, policy and maps of Sudan....
	Sudan: A Nation Divided
	A BBC News In Depth special on Sudan presenting eye witness reports; feature articles; video footage; photographs and analysis on the humanitarian and refugee crisis in Darfur, Sudan....

Water and sanitation specialist

	Sphere Handbook
	The Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response handbook sets out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian assistance. Chapters include: The Humanitarian Charter; Minimum Standards in Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion; Food Security, Nutrition and Food Aid; Shelter, Settlemen...
	Sanitation (WaterAid)
	Four out of ten people in the world do not have somewhere safe and clean to go to the toilet. This brochure from WaterAid (UK) provides an introduction to sanitation issues and how inadequate facilities lead to health, economic and social problems; and provides case studies from Zambia, Pakistan and Malawi....

Food specialist

	Sphere Handbook
	The Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response handbook sets out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian assistance. Chapters include: The Humanitarian Charter; Minimum Standards in Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion; Food Security, Nutrition and Food Aid; Shelter, Settlemen...
	Rebuilding Lives in Sudan
	A report from the World Food Programme and BBC News service describes how, away from Darfur, people in Sudan are rebuilding their lives after two decades of war....
	Refugee realities: Your rights in crisis
	The Refugee Realities website provides information about an interactive simulation exercise that puts you in the position of a refugee or internally displaced person trying to find safety and a long term solution. Oxfam has also developed a mobile phone game, the Game for Change about Aissa, a refugee who has to flee conflict in Darfur with her fou...

Health care specialist

	Health Situation in Darfur, Sudan
	Information from the World Health Organization about the health of refugees in Darfur, Sudan including statistics, photo essays, video footage, media reports about health, disease outbreaks and deaths....
	Sanitation (WaterAid)
	Four out of ten people in the world do not have somewhere safe and clean to go to the toilet. This brochure from WaterAid (UK) provides an introduction to sanitation issues and how inadequate facilities lead to health, economic and social problems; and provides case studies from Zambia, Pakistan and Malawi....
	Refugee Camp
	There are two categories of disease that are likely to appear in a refugee camp. The most common non-epidemic diseases are malnutrition, acute respiratory infections (like pneumonia), diarrhea, and malaria. There are also deadly diseases that can turn into epidemics, such as measles, meningitis, dysentery, and cholera....
	Forced Migration Online (FMO)
	Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide. Topics include: What is Forced Migration? Types of forced migrants: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Internally Displaced Persons, Development displacees, Environmental and disaster displacees, Smuggled people and Tr...
	Sphere Handbook
	The Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response handbook sets out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian assistance. Chapters include: The Humanitarian Charter; Minimum Standards in Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion; Food Security, Nutrition and Food Aid; Shelter, Settlemen...

Shelter specialist

	Sphere Handbook
	The Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response handbook sets out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian assistance. Chapters include: The Humanitarian Charter; Minimum Standards in Water...
	Crisis in Darfur / Chad
	News from Oxfam UK about the situation in Darfur and Chad where people have been forced to flee their homes and are living in makeshift shelters in camps or on the edge of villages in Darfur and across the border in eastern Chad....

Refugee representative

	Crisis in Darfur / Chad
	News from Oxfam UK about the situation in Darfur and Chad where people have been forced to flee their homes and are living in makeshift shelters in camps or on the edge of villages in Darfur and across the border in eastern Chad....
	Darfur Drawn: the Conflict in Darfur Through Children's Eyes
	When Human Rights Watch researchers Dr. Annie Sparrow and Olivier Bercault visited Chad in February 2005 to assess the issues of protection and sexual violence in the refugee camps along the Darfur/Chad border they collected drawings from schoolchildren from seven refugee camps and the border town o...
	Sudan: A Nation Divided
	A BBC News In Depth special on Sudan presenting eye witness reports; feature articles; video footage; photographs and analysis on the humanitarian and refugee crisis in Darfur, Sudan....
	Crisis in Sudan Report (World Vision Radio)
	Radio audio interview with Dave Coddington, reporting on his visit to makeshift refugee camps along the border of Chad. (Media file runs for 4 minutes 17 seconds)...

You can find information about refugee camps from a variety of sources including books, magazines, videos, television programs, news reports, online databases, websites, organisations and personal contacts. Remember that for this learning quest you are particularly interested in the management of refugee camps and the relationships between refugees and the communities into which they move. Libraries and databases Keyword search refugee* AND camp* Phrase search "refugee camp" Subject heading search Refugees Refugees Biography Refugees Civil rights Refugees Law and legislation Refugees Nutrition Refugees Social aspects Immigration and emigration Fiction Subject heading search Refugees - Fiction