The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) is an organized research unit of York University. Founded in 1988, the remains today, next to the Centre at Oxford, one of the largest and most active centres specifically in Refugee Studies in the world. It fosters interdisciplinary and collaborative research in all of its undertakings. Its efforts are focused in areas related to a comprehensive research program expanding from theoretical to institutional research on several wide-ranging and interconnected areas of study.

Address : York University, Room 321, York Lanes, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 - CANADA
Phone: 416-736-5663
Fax: 416-736-5837
Email: crs AT yorku.ca
Website: http://www.yorku.ca/crs/

The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) was established in 1982 as part of Queen Elizabeth House, the University of Oxford’s Centre for Development Studies. It has since won an international reputation as the leading multidisciplinary centre for research and teaching on the causes and consequences of forced migration. The centre engages in research, teaching, publications and offers a wide range of resources.

Mailing Address: Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development (QEH), University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB - United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (1865) 270722
Fax: +44 (1865) 270721
Email: rsc AT qeh.ox.ac.uk
Website: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/

Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV), or the Society for Threatened Peoples, is an independent human rights organisation. The society has consultative status as NGO at the United Nations (ECOSOC). GfbV has 24 regional offices in Germany and country offices in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegowina, Chile, Germany, the autonomous region South Tirol (Italy), Luxembourg, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. The main focus of the organisation’s work is continuous distribution of information about the situation of persecuted and threatened peoples, through press releases, conferences, newspapers and protest action. The group also supports political refugees and members of minorities in applying for political asylum status by providing expertise, and gives background information for solicitors and courts.

Address : Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker International, 2, rue Louis XIV, L-1948 - LUXEMBOURG
Phone: +352 - 262 586 87
Fax: +352 - 262 586 88
Email: gfbv-international AT pt.lu
Website: http://www.gfbv.org/

Statewatch aims at monitoring the state and civil liberties in the European Union. It is a non-profit-making voluntary group founded in 1991. It is comprised of lawyers, academics, journalists, researchers and community activists. Its European network of contributors is drawn from 14 countries. Statewatch encourages the publication of investigative journalism and critical research in Europe the fields of the state, justice and home affairs, civil liberties, accountability and openness.

Address : PO Box 1516, London N16 0EW - UK
Phone: (00 44) (0) 208 802 1882
Fax: (00 44) (0) 208 880 1727
Email: office AT statewatch.org
Website: http://www.statewatch.org/