The Finnish Refugee Council encourages municipalities to receive more refugees. Without a municipality to settle in refugees already selected for resettlement cannot arrive in Finland. UNHCR is concerned that the delay may put refugees' lives and security in danger.
School youth from all over Sweden were eager to learn more about the trials refugees go through during an event at Skansen 9 May. By playing UNHCR's interactive web-based game, Against All Odds, they walked a mile in the shoes of refugees.
Khalid Haji Ahmed, 32, an aspiring politician, was on Utøya Island in Norway on 22 July 2011. That day Anders Breivik opened fire, killing 69 people. Khalid's little brother Ismail Haji Ahmed was among the victims.
International donors have pledged an initial sum of more than 300 million Euros towards a programme to provide homes for some 74,000 people displaced in the Balkans during the conflict of the 1990s.
The story of eight Palestinian refugees resettling in Iceland becomes a bestseller. These women had lived in the make-shift camp Al-Waleed in Iraq and were resettled with the help of UNHCR.
UNHCR’s talsperson for de baltiske og nordiske lande er Hanne Mathisen. Hun kan kontaktes per e-mail: mathisen[at]unhcr.org, eller per telefon: +46-(0)8- 457 4886, mobiltelefon: +46-(0)708 990169.
