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Useful
resources
- Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (all the latest laws)
www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk
- The BBC ‘asylum system jargonbuster’ news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3380397.stm
- Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees (ICAR) (FAQs, definitions and various independent reports into asylum and the media) www.icar.org.uk/?lid=1962
- Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) (various reports and projects on asylum and the media) www.ippr.org (search for asylum)
- MediaWise (‘The RAM Report: campaigning for fair and accurate coverage of refugees and asylum seekers’, and other reports and articles) www.ramproject.org.uk (see ‘refugees’ link on main page)
- Refugees & Asylum Seekers in Scotland – A guide for journalists. Useful material applicable UK-wide compiled by NUJ, Amnesty International Scotland, Oxfam and Scottish Refugee Council. www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/ukpoverty/downloads/
Fair_Play_guide_for_journalists.pdf
- Article 19 - What’s the story? Analysis of media coverage of asylum issues www.article19.org
- Media Diversity Institute (various handbooks and studies on reporting of migrant, refugee and displaced populations) www.media-diversity.org (select ‘refugees’ in the resources section)
- Forced Migration Online (worldwide database) www.forcedmigration.org
- ReliefWeb (Country and emergency profiles compiling UN, governmental and non-governmental information) www.reliefweb.int
- AlertNet for Journalists (Crisis briefings, country statistics, press monitoring and more…) www.alertnet.org/mediabridge/index.htm
- UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) ‘Basic Facts’ section
www.unhcr.org/basics.html
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