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External Links

This collection of external links is a directory of organizations dealing with refugee, asylum and human rights topics or provide (country-specific) information otherwise useful for practitioners. The directory contains over 3000 links to relevant internet sources and has been compiled and organized by type of organization, topic/mandate, regions and countries they relate to. This additional service has been provided to facilitate research by providing a mechanism to access information that may be relevant for decision makers and is not as such included in Refworld.

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Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

The mission of the Archive is to promote, protect, and preserve sexual health through original research and by collecting, analyzing and disseminating scientific information from other sources.

Type: Reference Information | Topic: Health

Medilinks

Medilinks is a resource that is aimed at health care deliverers / professionals, policy and decision makers as well as all people who have a need or are interested in health in Africa. It will provide a forum to foster responsible and balanced debate on controversial issues that affect medicine and health care in Africa.

Type: Reference Information | Topic: Health

Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC)

The Mental Disability Advocacy Center advances the human rights of children and adults with actual or perceived intellectual or psycho-social disabilities. Focusing on Europe and central Asia, we use a combination of law and advocacy to promote equality and social integration.

Type: Non-Governmental Organizations | Topic: Health

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

"Médecins Sans Frontières is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or man-made disasters." (from website)

Type: Non-Governmental Organizations | Topic: Health

Médecins du Monde

Médecins du Monde is an international humanitarian organisation whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations when they are faced with crisis or exclusion from society, in France and throughout the world. Site in French.

Type: Non-Governmental Organizations | Topic: Health

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): HIV/AIDS

Type: United Nations | Topic: Health

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health

The Special Rapporteur has been mandated to gather, request, receive and exchange right to health information from all relevant sources; dialogue and discuss possible areas of cooperation with all relevant actors; report on the status, throughout the world, of the right to health, including laws, policies, good practices and obstacles; make recommendations on appropriate measures that promote and protect the right to health.

Type: United Nations | Topic: Health

Physicians for Human Rights

Type: Non-Governmental Organizations | Topic: Health

Travel Health Online

Type: Reference Information | Topic: Health

United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN)

The mandate of the SCN is to promote cooperation among UN agencies and partner organizations in support of community, national, regional, and international efforts to end malnutrition in all of its forms in this generation.

Type: United Nations | Topic: Health

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