Arthur Helton (January 24, 1949 – August 19, 2003) was a lawyer, refugee advocate, teacher and author.
He died in the 2003 Canal Hotel bombing while he was in Baghdad to assess humanitarian conditions in Iraq.
[1] In 1994, Helton founded and then directed the Forced Migration Project at the Open Society Institute.
The head of the Lawyers Committee, Michael Posner, said "...Arthur was legendarily hard working and tenacious....Refugees around the world have lost ...one of their leading lights."
Iraq: lurching toward recovery (by Arthur Helton and Gil Loescher) The Price of Indifference: Refugees and Humanitarian Action in the New Century (2002) [4]