You Are Safe Here is the only organization that is working with community leaders to bring newcomers to their town through legal channels and with the guidelines of I0M and UNHCR. You Are Safe Here is focused on LGBTQ refugees within the UNHCR resettlement program.
With this donation you are safe here will be able to be sustainable and able to reach more communities. Rick Foster has already paved a path to success and has been responsible for the resettlement of hundreds of LGBTQ refugees, along with identifying deficiencies that leave the LGBTQ refugee out.
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You Are Safe Here works with the U.S. State Department, World Leaders, and the U.S. Congress to resettle at-risk LGBTQ refugees.
You Are Safe Here works to provide data on welcoming communities and absorption ratios of LGBTQ refugees.
You Are Safe Here has helped craft human rights legislation that aims to save lives.
You Are Safe Here is not bound by religious ideology like some organizations, which have no place for LGBTQ resettlements.
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ASYLUM SEEKERS MIGHT BE EXPECTED TO DENOTE THOSE WHO HAVE NOT (OR HAVE NOT YET) BEEN GIVEN INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION, BUT WHO HASN’T YET BEEN LEGALLY RECOGNIZED AS A REFUGEE.
REFUGEES ARE DEFINED AS THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR LAIM, AND THOSE WHO ARE UNSUCCESSFUL ARE DEFINEDAS FAILED ASYLUM SEEKERS. YOU ARE SAFE HERE FOCUSES SOLELY ON REFUGEES. THE TERM REFUGEE IN THE CONTEXT OF UNHCR AND YOU ARE SAFE HERE ARE THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY VETTED BY THE UNHCR IN THEIR CLAIMS AND ARE DEEMED ELIGIBLE FOR RESETTLEMENT THROUGH THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MIGRATION (IOM).
A RESETTLED UNHCR REFUGEE NOT ONLY HAS INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT SUPPORT BUT ALSO HAS THE RIGHT TO CITIZENSHIP, THE RIGHT TO WORK, AND THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE MEDICAL AND OTHER SOCIAL SERVICES AS NEEDED IN THE RESETTLED COUNTRY. HOWEVER, A RESETTLED REFUGEE MUST PERFORM CERTAIN DUTIES PRIOR TO RECEIVING CITIZENSHIP.
RESETTLED REFUGEE IS A PERSON WHO RESETTLED TO A THIRD COUNTRY; LEFT THEIR HOME COUNTRY FOR ANOTHER COUNTRY AND THEN RESETTLED PERMANENTLY TO A THIRD COUNTRY.
UNHCR THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES IS A UNITED NATIONS AGENCY MANDATED TO AID AND PROTECT REFUGEES, FORCIBLY DISPLACED COMMUNITIES, AND STATELESS PEOPLE, AND TO ASSIST IN THEIR VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION, LOCAL INTEGRATION OR RESETTLEMENT TO A THIRD COUNTRY.
IOM THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION (IOM) THE IOM IS THE PRINCIPAL UN AGENCY WORKING IN THE FIELD OF MIGRATION..
HIAS IS A JEWISH AMERICAN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT PROVIDES HUMANITARIAN AID AND ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES. IT WAS ORIGINALLY ESTABLISHED IN 1881 TO AID JEWISH REFUGEES. IN 1975, THE STATE DEPARTMENT ASKED HIAS TO AID IN RESETTLING 3,600 VIETNAM REFUGEES.
IRC THE INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE IS A GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN AID, RELIEF, AND DEVELOPMENT NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION. FOUNDED BY ALBERT EINSTEIN
You ARE SAFE HERE provides the UNITED NATIONS and UNHCR with list of communities around the globe that are welcoming to LGBTQ people.
