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1. Organisations working directly with refugees and forced migrants in Europe.
2. Media organisations working on this subject.
3. Information on the detention of refugees and forced migrants.
4. Policy / Legal information.

1. Organisations working directly with refugees and forced migrants in Europe
Jesuit Refugee Service Offices
JRS have offices in the following countries:
Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, the Ukraine and the United Kingdom.  If you are writing about the situation in one of these countries, please contact them for further information.

ECRE European Council on Refugees and Exiles
ECRE is an umbrella organisation of 79 refugee-assisting agencies in 31 countries working towards fair and humane policies for the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees. On this website, you can find background information about European policy, and also a data base and contact details of the organisations who work directly with refugees in many European countries. ECRE is a supporter of this competition.

UNHCR
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has offices running projects in many European countries. It is also a very good source of worldwide and European statistics and background information on refugees. 

Amnesty International
Amnesty International runs an international campaign called 'Refugees have Rights,' and many projects with asylum seekers in European countries.

International Red Cross
Works on the ground with refugees in many European countries. 


 2. Media organisations working on this subject
MediaWise
MediaWise is an independent charity set up by 'victims of media abuse' and concerned journalists, politicians and media lawyers in the UK. The organisation runs an exiled journalist network and has a good data base of organisations working with refugees across Europe. MediaWise is a supporter of this competition and will be part of the judging panel.

Online/More Colour in the Media
Online/More Colour in the Media (OL/MCM) is a network of NGO's, broadcasters, training institutes and researchers, set up to improve the representation of ethnic minorities in broadcasting. 

International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists is the world's largest organisation of journalists. First established in 1926, it was relaunched in 1946 and again, in its present form, in 1952. Today the Federation represents around 500.000 members in more than 100 countries. The IFJ promotes international action to defend press freedom and social justice through strong, free and independent trade unions of journalists.

The Interventional Federation of Journalists supports this competition.

Exiled Journalist' Network
The Exiled Journalists’ Network (EJN) was set up to help journalists who have fled to the UK to escape persecution because of their media work.

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3. Information on the detention of refugees and forced migrants
Jesuit Refugee Service Offices
Many JRS staff and volunteers visit detention centres to provide support, legal advice and social care.  Contact them to find more information.

Detention in Europe Website
JRS personnel in Europe accompany inter alia detained asylum seekers and former detainees.
JRS has a dedicated website focusing on the administrative detention of asylum seekers and irregular migrants in Europe. The purpose of the website is to inform, to alert, and to advocate the rights of detainees. JRS campaigns on this issue at a European level in Brussels.
   
Exodus Network
EXODUS is a network of persons and associations in contact with asylum seekers and other foreigners held in airports and transit zones in Europe, grouping chaplains, social workers and legal assistants.

International Detention Coalition
The International Detention Coalition aims to raise awareness of detention policies and practices and to promote the use of international and regional human rights standards and principles as they relate to the detention of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.
 
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4. Policy/ Legal Information
ECRE European Council on Refugees and Exiles
Extensive analysis of EU asylum policy can be found here, with information on the treatment of asylum seekers across Europe.
  
UNHCR
Background on the issue, as well as latest facts and figures.

No Fortress Europe
The European United Left/ Nordic Green Left Group in the European Parliament.  This website provides details on the European Union's Immigration policies.

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