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About Us

Our Mission

Refugees International generates lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced people around the world and works to end the conditions that create displacement.

Our Challenge

Refugee crises left unattended threaten stability around the world. Recent estimates of the numbers of refugees and internally displaced people have been increased to 34.5 million worldwide—all people who have been forced to flee their homes due to conflict and oppression. Additionally, there are more than 11 million stateless people in the world—often living in limbo, without citizenship rights or protection.

Our Work

Timely responses to refugee crises can increase stability in a region before the conflict spreads across borders. Each year, Refugees International conducts 20 to 25 field missions to assess crisis situations that have caused people to leave their homes or their countries. Based on up-to-date information gathered in the field, we provide governments, international agencies and non-governmental organizations with effective solutions to improve the lives of displaced people.

Our Reputation

Refugees International is a leading advocate for the needs of the world’s most vulnerable and under-represented populations. We are a small, highly effective organization recognized for credibility and accuracy. Our recommendations are highly valued in national and international centers of power—whether they be in the U.S. Congress, U.S. Administration, at the United Nations, or European and other capitals around the world.

Our Impact

On each mission—along with recording the need for basic services such as food, water, shelter and protection from harm—advocates explore a variety of other issues to be addressed, such as health services, access to education, human rights abuses, and circumstances specific to women and children. Because of our efforts, many who are abandoned in camps return home, refugees without food are fed, stateless people have obtained legal status, and families in danger have been moved to safer locations.