Communication with people from different cultures presents many challenges, and working with refugees raises a number of ethical considerations. 


The first two tools in this section address these issues. You can use them to brief yourself before you start providing language support; you can also consult them as the need arises. The other four tools offer information on four languages spoken by large refugee populations.

Tool 3 - Ethical and intercultural issues to be aware of when working with refugees 
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Tool 4 - Responding appropriately to cultural difference and managing intercultural communication
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Tool 5 - Arabic: some information 
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Tool 6 - Kurdish: some information 
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Tool 7 - Persian: some information
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Tool 8 - Somali: some information
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