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No Borders Brighton (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In a startling piece of double-think Wilbert Van Hövell, the regional representative of the UNHCR in Western Europe, claimed yesterday that “ the situation of the migrants in Calais improved overall ”* in the 6 months since their Calais office has been open. What planet is he living on? He claims that “ since the end of the 'Jungle', one notices that the number of migrants in...
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UNHCR (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The evicted foreigners are now staying in a sports field and a community centre in De Doorns, sleeping under three communal tents supplied by the government. Each tent is sheltering some 1,000 people. These are mostly single men, but there are also some families. To ensure privacy for the families, we have donated smaller family tents, which were dispatched from our emergency stockpile in Durban and...
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Date: 20 Nov 2009 Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Date: 20 Nov 2009 Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
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UNHCR (Free subscription) | yesterday
A regional conference on refugee protection and mixed migration in the Americas gets under way with call on states to cooperate over the issue.
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Oh Beautiful girls (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The United Nations Human Rights Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has denied running a repatriation programme that promised Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa R7000, computers and other equipment to start up businesses once back home. Last month it was reported the refugees signed up for the programme on the back of these promises but once back home nothing was delivered.
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Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The deserving winner of 3 Golden Globes & an Oscar, the leading lady of tinsel-world, is not only a seductive stunner but also an exceptionally talented actress. A power-house of talent, she has scorched the screen with her hot & sexy avatar in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Beowulf and has [...] Related posts: Angelina Jolie: Andrew Morton to write a book on Jolie Angelina...
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UNHCR (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
UNHCR embarks on a school feeding programme to increase class attendance and reduce malnutrition at two settlements for Angolan refugees in Zambia.
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somesaypip (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Angelina Jolie wrote a book. I picked up a bootlegged copy of Notes From My Travels because I was curious to read the second chapter. [UNHCR] Mission to Cambodia. July 16 through July 27, 2001. Some parts made me chuckle. This three-sentence story, for example: Yesterday I was about to throw ice out of my glass and Ravut stopped me. "Ice is very expensive here. You should give it back to the kitchen."...
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The UN has had trouble securing international funds to support as many as 2 million Iraq refugees throughout the Middle East who are barred from working in their host countries.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Wednesday that Pakistan will continue to extend support for the repatriation of Afghan refugees to their homeland with honor and dignity, the local news agency NNI reported. Talking to the new Country Representative of the UNHCR, Mengesha Kebede, the foreign minister said that the Pakistani nation has been extending hospitality to their Afghan...
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Immigration Watch International (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
There is an emerging credibility gap in the Rudd government’s navigation of contentious policy issues, a compulsion that denies the obvious and rests on the apparent assumption that Australians are mugs. There are many examples but the issue of asylum-seekers offers compelling evidence. Kevin Rudd invested much time in parliament on Monday insisting that the 22 [...]
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Angola has requested the re-activation of a tripartite mechanism with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United Nations refugee agency to repatriate some 60,000 Angolans still in DRC in the wake of the mutual expulsion of scores of thousands of each other's nationals by the neighbouring States.
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UNHCR (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Every year, thousands of people try to reach North America via the Caribbean. UNHCR is providing vital pieces in the protection jigsaw that covers the region.