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Using Online Video to Pressure for IDP Rights (8/03)

North Korea: U.S. Bill Would Protect North Korean Refugees (6/25/03)

Lawyers Committee Welcomes Bush Package for Afghanistan Relief (10/4/01)

History: Seeking Durable Solutions in Southeast Asia in the 1980s

Workers Rights: Labor Activists in South East Asia

International Refugee Policy

Asylum in the U.S.

Refugees in Asia

Asia currently hosts nearly three million refugees. Hundreds of thousands are fleeing brutal regimes in places like North Korea and Burma; others have been displaced by civil conflict in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and East Timor.

Refugees in Asia face particular challenges as many countries in the region, including Nepal, Thailand, India and Indonesia have not signed the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Other countries like China and Cambodia, while parties to the Convention have not passed national legislation to implement their international obligations on the national level.

Although, Asia is not currently a focus of the International Refugee Program we do continue to monitor developments and to respond to particular crises where appropriate.

For copies of the following, please contact buenoo@lchr.org

Hong Kong’s Refugee Status Review Board: Problems in Status Determination for Vietnamese Asylum Seekers.
(March 1992)

Forced Back and Forgotten: The Human Rights of Loatian Asylum Seekers in Thailand.
(1989)

Inhumane Deterrence: The Human Rights of Vietnamese Boat People in Hong Kong.
(1989)

Seeking Shelter: Cambodians in Thailand.
(1987)

Full List of LCHR Publications Concerning Refugees