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Related Websites

The following links will help you connect with LIRS's partners and other agencies in the field, learn more about the issues that impact our work and mission, and find general information about our world. Please note that LIRS has no control over the information on these sites, and may not be in agreement with all of it.

Categories Listed Below
LIRS Affiliates
U.S. Government Agencies
Lutheran Church Bodies and Organizations
Other Church-Based Partner Organizations
U.S. Refugee Resettlement Agencies
Civil and Human Rights Organizations
Legal Organizations
Resources for and About Torture Survivors
Detention Watch Network and Advisory Committee Member Organizations
Overseas and International Organizations
Other Agencies and Organizations
Immigration-Related Reference
General Reference
For LIRS Staff Only

U.S. Government Agencies
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS)
U.S. Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM)
U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
U.S. Department of State (DOS)
U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
WelcometoUSA.gov (Web portal for immigrants sponsored by the federal Task Force on New Americans)

Lutheran Church Bodies and Organizations
Association of Lutheran Development Executives
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
Lutheran Disaster Response
Lutheran Human Relations Association
Lutheran Men in Mission
Lutheran Office of Governmental Affairs
Lutheran Services in America
Lutheran Volunteer Corps
Lutheran Women's Missionary League
Lutheran World Federation
Lutheran World Relief
Lutherans Online
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (formerly Aid Association for Lutherans/Lutheran Brotherhood)
Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Other Church-Based Partner Organizations
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
Wheat Ridge Ministries

U.S. Refugee Resettlement Agencies
Church World Service
Ethiopian Community Development Council
Episcopal Migration Ministries
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Iowa Department of Human Services
International Rescue Committee
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops/Migration and Refugee Services
World Relief

Civil and Human Rights Organizations
American Civil Liberties Union
American Friends Service Committee
Amnesty International USA
Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights)
Human Rights Watch

Legal Organizations
American Bar Association (ABA Lawyer Referral Services)
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA's Immigration Lawyer Referral Service)
Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (CLINIC)
National Immigration Law Center
National Lawyers Guild

Resources for and About Torture Survivors
ACCESS Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center
Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma
American Friends Service Committee
Amigos de los Sobrevivientes
Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture
Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights
Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of New York
Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of New Orleans
Catholic Legal Immigration Network
Center for Justice and Accountability
Center for Survivors of Torture
Center for Victims of Torture
Cross-Cultural Counseling Center of the International Institute of New Jersey
Detained Torture Survivor Legal Support Network (coordinated by LIRS)
Doctors of the World
F.I.R.S.T. Project, Inc.
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
Florida Center for Surivors of Torture, Gulf Coast Community Care
Florida Immigration Advocacy Center
Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
International Survivors Center
Jewish Family Services of Columbus
Khmer Health Advocates
Liberty Center for Survivors of Torture
Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs
Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center
Program for Survivors of Torture & Severe Trauma (PSTT)
Program for Torture Victims
Refuge
Rocky Mountain Survivor Center
Safe Horizon/Solace
Survivors International of Northern California
Survivors of Torture International
World Organization Against Torture

Detention Watch Network and Advisory Committee Member Organizations
Detention Watch Network
American Bar Association
American Friends Service Committee
Amnesty International
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
Church World Service
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Immigration and Refugee Services of America
Jesuit Refugee Service
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of Texas (Texas Lawyers' Committee)
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
National Immigration Law Center
Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
United Methodist Committee on Relief
Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children

Overseas and International Organizations
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
International Organization for Migration
International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC)
Joint Voluntary Agency, Nairobi, Kenya
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Worldwide Refugee Admissions Processing System (WRAPS)

Other Agencies and Organizations
Bernardo Kohler Center
Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services—BRYCS Clearinghouse
Citizens and Immigrants for Equal Justice
Casa Alianza
Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN)
December 18 — An online organization that promotes and protects migrant rights
ECPAT-USA (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes)
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
Hmong National Development
HumanTrafficking.org
Jewish Family Services
National Council of La Raza
National Immigration Forum
Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center
Refugee Council USA
RefugeeWorks
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children

Immigration-Related Reference
Center for Immigration Studies
Immigration & Naturalization Service Center LLC—U.S. Immigration forms and information
The American Immigration Law Foundation's Immigration Policy Center

General Reference
Atlapedia Online—Full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world
Bartleby.com—An excellent reference library including an encyclopedia, dictionaries, thesauruses, quotation collections, Robert's Rules of Order, English usage references, and other literary and historical resources
Crosswalk Bible—A variety of searchable Bible translations
Ethnologue.com—An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages
Google—Excellent Internet search engine.The Google Toolbar is an especially handy tool for finding information online.
MapQuest—Resource for U.S. maps and driving directions
WhitePages and YellowPages—U.S. residential and business addresses and phone numbers