What people say about Refworld

This collection is a useful library for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), legal clinics, human rights activists, and any organizations that may be interested in or work with refugees, asylum seekers or students. (...) [It] is an easy to use, self-contained resource with searching and printing capacities.

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Ronda Bresnick Hauss
ADB Institute
Tokyo, Japan

The Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner (ORAC) has long recognised Refworld as an essential tool in making refugee status determinations and ensures that Refworld is readily available to every member of staff on the desktop of their p.c. Refworld has become a key support to making decisions on asylum applications because it provides quick access to comprehensive country of origin and legal information which saves caseworkers time and expedites the process. The reaction of caseworkers and decision makers to the temporary unavailability of Refworld for a couple of days during a recent upgrade to our information systems brought home to us how heavily Refworld is used in ORAC and its importance to the work of the office.

Finding the right information today is a challenge which Refworld helps us surmount.

Mick W. Quinn
Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner
(ORAC), Ireland

Refworld is an invaluable source of information for anyone working in the field of refugee studies. I regularly recommend it to students, colleagues and visiting researchers.

Stephen Castles
Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies
Director, Refugee Studies Centre
Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford

The Refworld CD-Rom furnishes my research with imperative information I did not know existed before starting using it. It is a valuable and easy-to-use tool to have in the office as well as in the field, both for comparative and case-specific research.

Frederik Rosén
Secretary of the Plum Foundation, Denmark

Refworld is an excellent, indeed indispensable resource. It is an essential tool for researchers, students, instructors, policy- and decision-makers, and I have no hesitation in recommending it for acquisition and that it should be disseminated as widely as possible.

Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, Senior Research Fellow and
Professor of International Refugee Law,
All Souls College, Oxford

"By selecting and grouping documents together, Refworld adds value. For that reason, the sheer fact of this selection, Refworld would be missed if it ceased to exist."

Bryan Deschamp
Senior Special Advisor, Office of the Director, Division of Operational Support, UNHCR

"There is unique value in a portable repository of information."

Simone Wolken
Representative for Somalia, UNHCR

"There is no other country-of-origin documentation resource like RefWorld. It is the definitive virtual library that pulls human rights reporting from all major monitoring organizations together in one place. It has to continue."

Sarah Meselson
Latin America Research Team Leader
USCIS Resource Information Center, Department of Homeland Security

"I would miss Refworld if it were discontinued because it is an inhand repository."

Judy Wakahiu
Refugee Consortium of Kenya, Advocacy and Policy Centre, Nairobi