U.S. Committee for Refugees

29.06.2004 Citing first-hand accounts from human rights organizations and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) satellite photos showing 300 non-Arab villages completely destroyed, U.S. Committee for Refugees is urging President Bush to declare the Darfur crisis genocide and to act swiftly.

25.06.2004 More than seven million refugees have been confined to refugee camps, segregated settlements or otherwise deprived of their rights for ten years or more, according to World Refugee Survey 2004 - Warehousing Issue. USCR's 43rd annual survey of refugee conditions and statistics reports on the 11.9 million refugees worldwide and condemns the practice of refugee warehousing as legally indefensible and morally unacceptable.

24.06.2004 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) recently "suspended indefinitely" the repatriation of 483 Iraqis confined for 13 years at Saudi Arabia's Rafha refugee camp, due to security concerns in Iraq. USCR is asking Saudi Arabia to end their confinement and grant them their rights.