REFUGEES

http://www.unhcr.org

click on about us:1. What is the main purpose of the UNHCR? What is it?

Click on who we help:2. What is the official definition of a refugee and an internally displaced person (IDP)?3. Who is the current High Commissioner of the UNHCR?

Click on about us and unhcr people:4. Give an example of one of the UNHCRs Goodwill Ambassadors or Special Envoy. What is their role/what do they do for the UNHCR?

Click on figures at a glance:5. What is the latest number of refugees of concern that the UNHCR looks after?6. Where do they mainly come from?

7. Choose ONE group of refugees to focus on and produce a half-page fact-file about them:Include: Where they are from How many refugees are there? Why have they moved? (push and pull factors?) What are some of the problems that they face? What is being done for them? e.g. are they being relocated? Where are they going?