at home are denied at the initial hearings, but important precedents delineating alien rights have been established on appeal by the Board of Immigration Appeals in Washington, D.C., and by the federal courts. The project recruits and trains volunteer attorneys from the Washington area, assigns cases, and draws on specialists to provide advice on conditions in various countries in support of asylum appeals. Cases are referred to it by such groups as the Haitian Refugee Center, which received renewed support this year. Located in Miami, Florida, the center has used test-case litigation and public education to bring to national attention mass deportations, interdiction on the high seas, and prolonged detention of undocumented Haitians. The center also provides individual representation to indigent Haitians in southern Florida at asylum, bond, deportation, and exclusion hearings, produces a newsletter and radio programs in Creole and English that give legal information, and prepares legal briefs for asylum appeals in Washington.

The Foundation also granted funds to the International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs in Geneva for a conference on the protection of refugees in Africa. After Pakistan (with its 2.6 million refugees from Afghanistan), Africa has more refugees than anywhere else in the world. To complete a sourcebook for policy makers and the personnel of aid agencies on various methods of helping unaccompanied minors caught in large-scale emergencies, Redd