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LINKS
Please send comments and suggestions to t.cheesman@swan.ac.uk
The best UK links page for asylum / refugee issues is: AsylumSupport.info
AsylumSupport.info focuses on all matters that concern people seeking asylum, together with a directory of hundreds of online resources relating to: asylum and refugees, conflict, country data, court cases. deportation, detention, discrimination, funding, gender, government, human rights, human trafficking, law, media, migration, policy and studies.
Tom Cheesman's links
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2) Information and campaigns on European and world-wide refugee issues |
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1) UK refugee organisations and other useful links
| >>The Refugee Council | >>Student Action for Refugees | >>Refugee Action |
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| >>Immigration Advisory Service |
>>Home Office, Immigration and Nationality Directorate: Asylum The new White Paper: >>Secure Borders, Safe Haven- Integration with Diversity in Modern Britain (PDF) |
>>National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns >>Detention Watch (site not yet running) |
| >>Oxfam: countering popular myths about asylum seekers and refugees in Britain |
>>in4refugees - Advice for asylum seekers and refugees (site created by Alpha Bah in Cardiff) |
>>Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers |
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>>ICAR: Information Centre on Asylum seekers and Refugees (site under development) |
>>BLINK: black information link - top site for UK ethnic minority issues |
>>RAM Project on Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Mass Media |
2) Information and campaigns on European and world-wide refugee issues
| >>Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados | >>Servizio dei Gesuiti per i Rifugiati | >>internet centre anti-racism in europe (ICARE) |
| >>Service Jésuite des Réfugiés | >>Jesuit Refugee Service | >>european forum for migration studies (germany) |
| >>statewatch monitors civil liberties in the EU | >>united for intercultural action (see 'Campaigns' > 'Refugees') | |
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>>indymedia independent (global) media centre |
>>kidon media link - for links to news sources across the whole world See also >Home country links |
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3) Organisations concerned with freedom of expression issues
A - Western NGOs
B - Non-western NGOs
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The International Parliament of Writers (IPW) now has a website: International Parliament of Writers - journal: Autodafe
The IPW is a non-profit association which was established in 1994 on the initiative of Salman Rushdie (founding President) and Wole Soyinka (current President), in response to an appeal launched in 1993 by 300 writers from around the world, following the upsurge in assassinations of writers in Algeria.
IPW created a Cities of Asylum Network to organise practical solidarity with persecuted writers (specifically, imaginative writers - though many are of course also journalists, editors, publishers, active in theatre, music, media, and so on). The network now includes about 25 cities in Europe and is spreading to Latin America and Africa. Several European Regions have also joined: Tuscany, Lower Normandy, etcetera.
Cities or regions make a contract with IPW to offer one- or two-year residencies to writers forced to flee their own country: a suitable place to live and work, a monthly stipend, and legal, medical and social assistance as required.
To date some 30 writers have been offered IPW residencies, from Algeria, Cuba, Iran, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Iraq...
The IPW's Charter of Cities of Asylum was adopted in 1995 by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe.
Meanwhile, almost all countries in the European Union (and also many countries not in the EU) are involved in the network. But shamefully, no City or Region in the UK (or Ireland) has joined.
Other IPW projects include an Observatory on freedom of creation, based in Barcelona, a Research Centre on censorship, based in Paris-Aubervilliers, and an international journal in five languages, >>Autodafe.
For more information email ipwpie@compuserve.com.
See: "Writers On The Run Look To Las Vegas As City Of Asylum" in the >>Gambling Magazine
The IPW needs your financial support. Send cheques to "Parlement international des écrivains" to:
PIE
1, allée Georges Leblanc
F-93300 Aubervilliers
France
Or make payments to "Parlement international des écrivains", Account no. 0005045106597, Swift code SOGEFRPPSAD, to:
Société Générale
5 rue Ferragus
F-93300 Aubervilliers
France
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