UN agency responsible for refugee issues.
WWW site includes:
(a) Background/publicity information on UNHCR, press releases, development education materials, issues of Refugees magazine, access to photographs and Witness eye-witness multimedia productions.
(b) Refworld (see separate entry): research-oriented database, produced by the Centre for Documentation and Research (CDR) (see separate entry), contains large collection of full text UNHCR publications, Commission on Human Rights reports, country reports, international instruments , refugee case law, REFLIT (CDR’s bibliographic refugee literature database) and many other reference materials.