UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the 21st Century (Global Institutions)
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A regional conference on refugee protection and mixed migration in the Americas gets under way with call on states to cooperate over the issue.
No Borders Brighton (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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...
UNHCR (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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...
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Date: 20 Nov 2009 Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Date: 20 Nov 2009 Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Oh Beautiful girls (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Name : Angelina Jolie Born Name : Angelina Jolie Voight Date of Birth : June 4, 1975 (1975-06-04) (age 33) Place of Birth : Los Angeles, California, United States Occupation : Film actor Years Active : 1982; 1993–present Spouse(s) : Jonny Lee Miller (1996–1999), Billy Bob Thornton (2000–2003) Domestic Partner(s) : Brad Pitt (2005–present) Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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.
UNHCR (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
UNHCR embarks on a school feeding programme to increase class attendance and reduce malnutrition at two settlements for Angolan refugees in Zambia.
somesaypip (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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."...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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...
UNHCR (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
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.
UNHCR (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Weeks after a makeshift camp was dismantled in Calais, UNHCR continues to seek out and advise migrants and asylum-seekers along France?s northern coast.
UNHCR (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Today, 17 November, marks three years since a group of recognized Lao Hmong refugees were rounded up in Bangkok for deportation. The group, now totalling 158, have been in detention ever since. UNHCR calls on all parties to play their part in finding a humanitarian solution to their plight and end the detention of this group of children, women and men who are being held in two cells in an immigration...
No Borders Brighton (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
A group of Afghan asylum seekers have alleged that the Indonesian coast guard fired on their boat , wounding two, when a second coast guard vessel tried to stop them after they had handed over a $US50,000 ($54,206) bribe to a previous coast guard vessel. The 61 Afghans and 5 Indonesian crew, thinking they were in International waters, refused to stop and the Indonesian boat opened fire. The skipper,...
UNHCR (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The Toplica family waited a long time before deciding it was safe enough to return to their old neighbourhood in Kosovo. Now, they are back and thriving.
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tamilselvan1 | 07/24/2009
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie paid her third visit to Iraq as UN Refugee Agency Goodwill Ambassador and appealed for aid to an estimated 1.6 million displaced civilians. According to a statement released by UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the 34-year-old actress visited a makeshift camp for displaced Iraqis in a suburb of Baghdad during her one-day trip.
smille01716 | 06/01/2009
Angelina Jolie talk about UNHCR in " Hard Talk" UNHCR Goodwill Ambasador watch here
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