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Refugees Learning Quest: Locate
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Visit a Refugee Camp |
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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...
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Anatomy of a Refugee Camp |
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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...
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Road to Refuge |
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This special report from the BBC tells the stories behind the statistics, using first-person testimonies and in-depth interviews
to trace the journey ...
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Beyond The Fire |
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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...
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Refugee Journey Photo Match (World Vision) |
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Fleeing for safety from persecution is a frightening journey. Explore the possible refugee journeys: leaving home, on the
road, seeking refuge, return...
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Refugees Video Clip (World Vision) |
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This introductory video clip about refugees filmed in 1995 from World Vision describes refugees and internally displaced persons
(IDPs) and why people...
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Sudan (UNHCR) |
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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....
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Sudan: A Nation Divided |
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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....
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Aid Workers Network: Advice Pages |
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The Aid Workers Network provides practical advice for aid workers by aid workers. The Technical section includes links to
key documents about: Water Supply and Sanitation, Food and Nutrition, Health Services, Shelter and Site Planning for Displaced
People.SPHERE Minimum Standards for Water and Sanitation; UNHCR Guide to Emergency Water Provision fo...
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Sphere Handbook |
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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...
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Darfur Logistical Challenges Video |
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A 3 minute sample of broadcast-quality video filmed by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Darfur for use by news organisations.
Shows the extensive flooding as a result of rain, with bogged and overturned trucks causing problems for food supply. The
World Food Programme is forced to drop food by air, and villagers cart the heavy bags by donkey. Imag...
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Rebuilding Lives in Sudan |
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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....
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Refugee realities: Your rights in crisis |
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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...
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Health Situation in Darfur, Sudan |
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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....
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Sanitation (WaterAid) |
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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....
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Refugee Camp |
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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....
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Aid Workers Network: Advice Pages |
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The Aid Workers Network provides practical advice for aid workers by aid workers. The Technical section includes links to
key documents about: Water Supply and Sanitation, Food and Nutrition, Health Services, Shelter and Site Planning for Displaced
People.SPHERE Minimum Standards for Water and Sanitation; UNHCR Guide to Emergency Water Provision fo...
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Refugee Camp: Shelter |
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How are refugee/IDP camps established? How are they designed to minimize health risks? What kinds of shelter are constructed
in a camp? What are the main objectives of providing shelter? What criteria are used in site selection for a camp? Camp or
integration into the local population: Advantages and disadvantages?...
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Forced Migration Online (FMO) |
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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...
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Sphere Handbook |
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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...
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Aid Workers Network: Advice Pages |
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The Aid Workers Network provides practical advice for aid workers by aid workers. The Technical section includes links to
key documents about: Water Supply and Sanitation, Food and Nutrition, Health Services, Shelter and Site Planning for Displaced
P...
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Refugee Camp: Shelter |
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How are refugee/IDP camps established? How are they designed to minimize health risks? What kinds of shelter are constructed
in a camp? What are the main objectives of providing shelter? What criteria are used in site selection for a camp? Camp or
in...
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Sphere Handbook |
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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...
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Forced to Flee |
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Case study of a young woman, Asha living in a tent at the Breidjing refugee camp in Chad yet yearning for her traditional
cool mud brick home in West Darfur, Sudan....
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Crisis in Darfur / Chad |
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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....
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Abu Shouk camp in Northern Darfur Photo Gallery |
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Slideshow of images from Oxfam showing Abu Shouk refugee camp in Northern Darfur. Images include: distribution of nonfood
items, women and children, crops, shelters, and latrines....
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Health care in Sudan: Red Cross international project |
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Since early 2003, over 2 million people have been left homeless because of ongoing an conflict in Sudan. About 200,000 Sudanese
refugees have sought shelter and relief across the border in Chad. The Red Cross aims to raise money for much needed medic...
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Locating resources |
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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
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