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COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN - WHERE AND WHY?

This section (still in development) will provide fact-tastic infosheets that offer fast facts on the main countries people flee from to the UK. We’ll include a bit of history, politics, information on human rights abuses and the reasons people flee.

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Countries of origin

Eritrea

Eritrea infosheet PDF

Eritrea infosheet RTF

Somalia

Somalia infosheet PDF

We also heartily recommend you use some of the other great authorities on the internet:

Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org/en/human-rights

BBC Online
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/country_profiles/default.stm

Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org/countries.html

Refugee Council
www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/supportourwork/whereonearth/topten/

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
www.unhcr.org

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