[refugee-rights] Thailand: Give UN access to Rohingya 'boat people', Human...
End Indefinite Detention of Asylum-Seekers Fleeing Burma (New York) February 2, 2011 -- Thailand should immediately allow the United Nations refugee agency unhindered access to 211 detained ethnic...
View Article[refugee-rights] Deaths in Mozambique highlight risks faced by asylum-seekers...
PRETORIA, South Africa, February 8 (UNHCR) – The deaths by suffocation of eight Ethiopians travelling through Mozambique has highlighted the little-publicized dangers that asylum-seekers trying to...
View Article[refugee-rights] Cambodia: Ensure Montagnards' asylum rights, urges Human...
Ongoing Persecution in Vietnam Expected to Fuel Future Arrivals (New York, February 14, 2010) -- Cambodia should provide safe asylum for Montagnards fleeing Vietnam's Central Highlands even after it...
View Article[refugee-rights] UNHCR steps up relief efforts as huge numbers flee Libya to...
RAS ADJIR, Tunisia, March 1 (UNHCR) – UNHCR emergency staff said here Tuesday that the situation at the Libya-Tunisia border is at crisis point, with 14,000 people crossing the day before from Libya....
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View Article[refugee-rights] Thousands of people flown home from Tunisia as evacuation...
GENEVA, March 3 (UNHCR) – An operation to evacuate tens of thousands of people from the Tunisian border and fly them home was under way on Wednesday. Under a programme led by UNHCR and the...
View Article[refugee-rights] Sudden drop in people fleeing Libya into Tunisia sparks new...
GENEVA, March 4 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Friday reported a sharp drop in the numbers of people crossing the border at Ras Adjir from Libya into Tunisia, and said it was increasingly worried...
View Article[refugee-rights] UN refugee chief urges sustained relief effort as Libya...
9 March 2011 – The United Nations refugee chief today called on the international community to forge ahead with humanitarian efforts as fighting in Libya escalates and people continue to flee the North...
View Article[refugee-rights] Asylum-seeker numbers nearly halved in last decade
GENEVA, March 28 (UNHCR) – New figures compiled by the UN refugee agency have shown a dramatic fall in the number of asylum-seekers in the industrialized world over the last 10 years. On Monday, UNHCR...
View Article[refugee-rights] Jagland: Europe must act now to resolve migration crisis
Strasbourg, 12.04.2011 -- In a statement today, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Mr. Thorbjørn Jagland, called for improved co-operation to manage the on-going migration flows from...
View Article[refugee-rights] Liberia: Ivorian women and girls compelled to trade sex for...
Need for protecting refugees against sexual abuse (Geneva) April 21, 2011 -- Dozens of Ivorian refugee women and girls recently arrived in eastern Liberia say they have had to engage in sex to get...
View Article[refugee-rights] UNHCR seeks better rescue mechanisms after Mediterranean...
GENEVA, May 10 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Tuesday lamented the latest drowning deaths of people fleeing Libya by boat and reiterated a call for European nations to urgently improve mechanisms...
View Article[refugee-rights] Three years after fleeing conflict, thousands in Pakistan...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, June 7 (UNHCR) – More than 38,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) have headed home as the latest phase of a return operation in north-western Pakistan was completed over the...
View Article[refugee-rights] World Refugee Day: UNHCR report finds 80 per cent of world's...
World Refugee Day - 20 June 2011 GENEVA, June 20 (UNHCR) – A UNHCR report released today reveals deep imbalance in international support for the world's forcibly
View Article[refugee-rights] PACE delegation to visit refugee camps on Turkish-Syrian border
Strasbourg, 22.07.2011 – On 26 July, a four-member delegation from PACE’s Migration Committee will visit reception camps near Antakya, on the Turkish-Syrian border, set up to give refuge to the flow of...
View Article[refugee-rights] Kenya: Nearly half a million Somalis refugees need immediate...
(Nairobi) July 28, 2011 – The Kenyan government should urgently provide land for new refugee camps in response to the humanitarian crisis in existing camps near its border with Somalia, Human Rights...
View Article[refugee-rights] UNHCR helps secure health insurance for all registered...
TEHERAN, Islamic Republic of Iran, August 11 (UNHCR) – Afghan refugee Gholam Reza has been worried about his health for some time, but he's been too poor to do much about it. "We do not have health...
View Article[refugee-rights] Thousands still arriving on Italy's shores from Libya and...
16 August 2011 – People are continuing to flee Libya and Tunisia for a variety of reasons, the United Nations refugee agency reported today, noting that almost 2,000 people arrived on the Italian...
View Article[refugee-rights] Yemeni NGO to receive Nansen Refugee Award for life-saving work
GENEVA, September 13 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency announced today that its annual Nansen Refugee Award will honour a Yemen-based non-governmental organization, the Society for Humanitarian...
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