Problems of Protection: The UNHCR, Refugees and Human Rights in the 21st Century
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov 07, Colombo: The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said some 90,000 of Sri Lanka's Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have returned to their homes...
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov 07, Colombo: In order to expedite the resettlement process of the displaced civilians in the North, the UNHCR, United Nations humanitarian agency has provided five demining flail machines to help accelerate the demining in the former war-torn land.
UNHCR (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency Search Text size | | | UNHCR seeks funds to respond to flooding in Dadaab refugee campsBriefing Notes, 6 November 2009This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 6 November 2009, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.UNHCR is asking donor countries for $2.8 million...
UNHCR (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Some 274,000 people were displaced on multiple occasions during the final months of the conflict in Sri Lanka and then accommodated in closed camps in the Vavuniya, Jaffna, Mannar and Trincomalee districts. Following the recent returns, some 163,000 people still remain in the camps where conditions are deteriorating. UNHCR and other UN agencies continue to advocate strongly with the government of Sri...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
UN stepping up assistance to latest wave of conflict displaced Pakistanis6 November 2009 – The United Nations refugee agency said today it is stepping up aid to people uprooted by military operations in the Pakistani region of South Waziristan, while highlighting the ongoing needs of around one million people still displaced from an earlier offensive in the northwest. Since September, the UN...
The Right Perspective (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sweden has decided to expand a two-year-old program that reimburses failed asylum seekers for their trip back home. The program was available to only failed asylum seekers from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and the West Bank and Gaza. It will now include 20 additional countries, mostly from Africa, in addition to parts of Russia and Kosovo. The Swedish [...]
Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ (Free subscription) | yesterday
As anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis knows I'm no fan of the Greek police. I have seen their senseless brutality too often to believe that they are the "thin blue line" between us and chaos. There have been too many cases in which officers have attacked and beaten those they are supposed to be protecting, asylum seekers, protesters and minorities being their usual targets as reports...
No Borders Brighton (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Having reflected on the weasel words of Phil Woolas overnight, and having looked at the available UNHCR statistics for asylum applications of Afghans in 38 out of the 44 industrialised countries*, we can see that there was a steady but accelerating rise in numbers till a peak in 2001. After that there is a rapid drop down to 2005, when the numbers start to rise year on year. [Graph 1 & 2: See below]...
Gorillas Guides (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
BAQUBA, Iraq, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) — Basim al-Dafaie, an Iraqi poet, was optimistic when he saw the restoration of art and poetry festival in his province of Diyala after four years of turbulence and violence. "Life begins with hope and definitely one day the adversity will be removed and the smile will return again on [...]
Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Matthew Jones GENEVA (Reuters) - Up to 750,000 people in Kenya, nearly half of them Somali refugees, could be caught up in flooding and landslides from heavy rains expected to peak in November, the United Nations warned on Friday. … An estimated 4,600 people along the Indian Ocean coast and Kenya's northeastern region have already fled torrential rainfall,...
UNHCR (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
More than 16,000 civilians have fled ethnic violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and sought shelter in neighbouring Republic of Congo.
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The UN aid agencies have called for ensuring safety and security to civilians including aid workers engaged in relief activities for displaced persons following military operation in South Waziristan.(..)Dominique, Frankefort Deputy Country Director WFP said there were six registration points five in D.I. Khan and one in Tank that were administered by the Social Welfare Department of NWFP and supported...
UNHCR (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The 16,100 DRC asylum seekers -- who are mainly Munzayas -- are staying in public buildings or with host communities across 11 villages alongside the Oubangui River. A UNHCR team is now visiting them and our initial assement is that they need proper shelter, food and household items such as blankets, kitchen sets and jerry cans. Once a thorough assessment is made, we will work together with the government...
UNHCR (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Elsewhere in Pakistan, an estimated one million people from previous waves of displacement out of Bajaur, Mohmand, Swat, remain displaced and in need of ongoing humanitarian assistance. This includes some 88,000 people in 10 camps in NWFP, for whom UNHCR is currently preparing a package of extra relief supplies for winter. Also, existing tents will be replaced with all-weather tents to provide extra...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
PADER district and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday closed four IDP camps.
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