Getting Involved
Not everyone wants to get involved in the same way. Here are some opportunities for involvement:
Volunteer Your Time
As a non-profit organization, UURISE relies on volunteers to fulfill our mission. If you would like to help, please let us know! We have numerous and varied opportunities for involvement and are certain we can find the perfect way for you to lend your talents and skills.
From answering phones to providing pro bono legal services, UURISE is in need of volunteers willing to provide direct services as well as behind the scenes support. If you have an interest in promoting justice we would like to hear from you. Please email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and put “Volunteer” in the subject line.
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UURISE offers a variety of great products with our logo on it from Cafe Press.
Refugee Facts
Here are some facts provided by The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) about refugees, internally displaced people, asylum-seekers and stateless people around the world in 2006 (latest figures in brackets for Iraq):
Total - 9.9 million (not including 4.3 million Palestinian refugees cared for by another U.N. agency, UNRWA). This was a 14 percent rise on 2005, due mainly to 1.2 million Iraqi refugees and a revised estimate of the refugee population in the United States. The Iraqi refugee total has since risen to 2.2 million.
Top Countries of Origin
- Afghanistan - 2.1 million
- Iraq - 1.5 million (now 2.2 million)
- Sudan - 686,000
- Somalia - 460,000
- Democratic Republic of the Congo - about 400,000
- Burundi - about 400,000
Main Countries of Asylum
- Pakistan - 1 million
- Iran - 968,000
- United States - 844,000
- Syria - 702,000 (now 1.4 million)
- Germany - 605,00
