A new website devoted to promoting discussion of the way UNHCR conducts refugee status determination has been established at www.unhcr-rsd.org. The site is sponsored by AMERA-UK and Frontiers Center (Lebanon). The site is now 'live' and comments are welcome before publicity efforts are made to launch the site. It is hoped that the site will serve several purposes. First of all, it will be a central location in which to collect information about UNHCR-RSD, and make it available to the public. Second, it is hoped that it will increase the visibility of this issue on the refugee protection agenda. Third, we want to develop a forum for discussing issues connected with UNHCR-RSD. We hope local NGOs will contribute descriptions of local UNHCR procedures. Right now, the site focuses on countries where UNHCR is solely responsible for RSD; if there is interest, we could add discussion of countries such as Uganda and Israel where UNHCR is highly involved in government RSD procedures. Please send in other ideas, or important documents that should be on the site. Once the site is launched, we will solicit initial postings, and invite UNHCR to participate. Comments to [email protected]