Immigration, Migrant & Refugee Rights

Connaughton-Espino, Tania and Sara Gomez. June 24, 2008. "Our Voices, Our Health: Latinas Share Their Stories." IPAS. Designed to promote the implementation of culturally sensitive programs that ensure Latinas receive the highest standard of health care and are enabled to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights, including the right to information and education, the right to health care and health protection, the right to decide whether or when to have children and the means and information to do so.

FAQ: Special Rapporteur on Migrants. Answers basic questions on why a visit by a UN Special Rapporteur is important.

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights 2009. "What are Human Rights Violations?" from the Human Rights Immigrant Community Action Network. Fact sheet listing common human rights violations faced by immigrants.

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. January 2008. "Over-Raided, Under Siege: U.S. Immigration Laws and Enforcement Destroy the Rights of Immigrants." A report from the Human Rights Immigrant Community Action Network on human rights violations perpetrated against immigrant and refugee families, workers and communities in the U.S.

Stop Prisoner Rape. 2004. “No Refuge Here: A First Look at Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention.”

Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Immigrants 2007
Briefing Materials submitted to Rapporteur – Detention and Deportation Working Group
Call to Action Migrants Day 2006
Border Network for Human Rights
World Refugee Day June 20, 2007
List of Concerns for the Review of US Second and Third Periodic Report 2006
USAID Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons Policy
The Concept of Internal Displacement
International Migration Facts & Figures
Forced Migration Review
UN Guide Implementation of Migrant Workers Convention
Pinheiro Principles: United Nations Principles on housing and property restitution for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
Handbook for Applying Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
Refugee & Asylum Seekers statistics
Report: Challenges and opportunities for US offfice of Citizenship
Health Challenges for Refugees and Immigrants in the U.S. (2004)
Repot on Migrant Deaths at the US-Mexico Border
Immigration: UN Guide
Immigrants: Entitled to Human Rights Protection
Status of Human and Civil Rights at US-Mexico Border (2004)
Immigration: International Standards
Militarization on the Border (2006)
Questions to the U.S. Government on behalf of U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture (2005)
US Responds to Committee on Torture (2006)
Under Siege: US Immigration Laws and Enforcement Destroy the Rights of Immigrants(NNIRR)
Community Report on Human Rights Abuses in Texas Rio Grande Valley (NNIRR)