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Iraq: Post-War Outflow of People from Iraq Creates Dual Challenge

Iraq: New UN Guidelines on Iraqi Asylum Seekers Could Undermine Refugee Protection (4/17/03)

Human Rights and Post War Iraq

History: Responding to the Humanitarian Emergency in Iraq in the Aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War

Human Rights Defenders: Middle East Initiative


International Refugee Policy

Asylum in the U.S.




Refugees in Middle East

The Middle East hosts more refugees than any other region in the world, an estimated 5.3 million as of December 2002. This includes an estimated three million Palestinian refugees, as well as nearly 2 million from Afghanistan and more than 200,000 from Iraq.

Refugees in the region face serious difficulties. The fate of millions of Palestinians who fled in the violence that followed the creation of Israel remains a key disputed element of peace negotiations today. At the same time refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan are beginning to return to still unstable homelands.


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

Asylum Under Attack: A Report on the Protection of the Iraqi Refugees and Displaced Persons One Year After the Humanitarian Emergency in Iraq.
(April 1992)

Full List of LCHR Publications Concerning Refugees

 

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