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News Stories 2008
Articles and News published on UNHCR regional website 2008.
Nordic Press trip 2008:
2008-11-18
Midnight along the shores of Yemen. Another boat crammed full with exhausted refugees from the Horn of Africa approaches the beach. The young men swim the last hundred meters and are taken in at UNHCR's Ahwar reception center.
2008-11-11
NEW DELHI, India, (UNHCR) – More than 100 Palestinian refugees from Iraq are leaving India in the first large-scale resettlement of Palestinian refugees from outside the Middle East.
2008-11-04
Can you imagine what it would be like to discover one morning that you don’t have a nationality any longer? No country to call your own, no country that calls YOU it’s own.
2008-10-27
KABUL, Afghanistan, October 24 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency's Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has concluded her first visit to Afghanistan, where she saw both the successes and the difficulties of return and reintegration.
2008-10-23
When refugees arrive in a new country, they face uncertainty and a state of limbo, which leads to fear and isolation. We tried to create a social space where they start integration by getting to know the local community.
2008-10-10
A burned doll, a blackened dress, bombshells, deserted possessions. All of these objects are collected in Georgia to remind us of the catastrophic consequences the war has had and still has for civilians there.
2008-09-24
Asylum-seekers rely on their legal counsels to represent their interests and, if necessary, challenge the decisions of the migration authorities. As one of the most important actors in an asylum system, investing in the legal representatives is a priority for UNHCR.
2008-09-19
(www.unhcr.org/ngo-consultations)
Rapporteur's Report on the Annual Consultations with NGOs and the full Report on the Consultations.
This year's Annual Consultations with NGOs brought together some 344 representatives form around the world, representing 206 different NGOs, UN and international organizations, of which 93 of these NGOs were national NGOs.
2008-09-15
BLIDA, Lebanon, September 15 (UNHCR) – In the year after the five-week war with Israel in 2006, Naima Ghazi was leading a happy life in the small town of Blida in southern Lebanon.
2008-09-15
GENEVA (UNHCR) – Chris Clark, this year’s co-winner of the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award, has spent half his life working in dangerous environments. First as a decorated soldier with the British army and more recently as the coordinator of mine clearance programmes in war-ravaged nations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
2008-09-12
Based on detailed profiling of internally displaced persons in Georgia that was just completed by the authorities in cooperation with UNHCR, the statistics on displacement associated with the August conflict over the breakaway region of South Ossetia have been revised. They show that a total of 192,000 people were forced to flee their homes, including 127,000 displaced in Georgia proper; 30,000 within South Ossetia; and another 35,000 to North Ossetia (Russian Federation).
2008-09-08
A group of 29 Palestinian women and children refugees were on their way Monday
8 September to a new life in Iceland after spending the last two years stranded
in a makeshift desert camp on the Iraq-Syria border.
2008-09-03
UNHCR is concerned about the humanitarian situation in and around the Georgian town of Gori, just south of the boundary with the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
2008-08-26
The High Commissioner completed his four-day mission to Georgia, South Ossetia and the Russian Federation on Friday and we are seeing an increasing number of refugees and displaced people returning to their homes as the situation improves in the region.
UNHCR has opened an office in the Georgian town of Gori and established a provisional warehouse there as an increasing number of people return home in the aftermath of the Russian withdrawal last Friday.
2008-08-15
More than 700 frightened residents of the remote Khodori Valley in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region have been escorted to safety in a two-day operation mounted by UN refugee agency staff. This comes as UNHCR airlifts over 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Georgia.
2008-08-04
AL WALEED, Iraq, Aug. 4 (UNHCR) – More than two dozen vulnerable Palestinian refugees stranded for the last two years in a makeshift camp in the desert on the Iraq-Syria border are set to leave the camp in the coming weeks for Iceland.
2008-07-16
On World Refugee Day 2008, UNHCR Regional Protection Officer Thomas Straub handed over the first copy of the Icelandic version of the UNHCR Handbook to Mr. Björn Bjarnason, Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs.
2008-07-02
LONDON - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) today launched an online game in the United Kingdom that pits players against repressive governments, sceptical officials and unsympathetic neighbours as they try to flee persecution and seek sanctuary in a new, safe country.
2008-07-01
For refugees at the Reception center in Rukla village, located an hour’s drive outside the capital Vilnius, days are spent participating in the integration programme, which means learning the local language and preparing for a new life in a Lithuanian municipality.
2008-07-01
On 20 June 2008, World Refugee Day was celebrated in Akranes, Iceland. The event was organized by the Icelandic Red Cross, the main implementing partner of UNHCR in Iceland, and took place on the town’s main square.
2008-07-01
You are arrested, beaten up and forced to sign a confession, just for taking part in a peaceful march. Fearing even worse to come, you flee your country taking only what you can carry in a small rucksack.
2008-07-01
The interactive web-based game “Mod alle odds” was launched in schools all over Denmark on World Refugee Day 2008.
2008-06-30
2,3 million SEK of the Swedish Postcode Lottery’s raised funds will provide energy efficient ovens to refugee camps in war-torn Darfur in order to protect both the women and the environment in the camps.
2008-06-05
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, was keynote speaker at the 4 June 2008 conference in Copenhagen: “Future Protection Challenges – Responding to Conflict and Forced Displacement”, co hosted by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Danish Refugee Council.
2008-05-27
UNHCR Lifetime Honorary Goodwill Ambassador, famed soprano Barbara Hendricks, chose blues for her repertoire at the Helsinki World Village Festival, on 25 May 2008.
2008-05-19
Assistant Director of the Swedish Migration Board was in the hot chair last week in Stockholm, having to defend the continued return of asylum-seekers to Greece, at the NGO seminar asking: “Should Sweden return asylum seekers to Greece?”.
2008-05-13
GENEVA – Denmark's Crown Princess Mary on Tuesday made an official visit to UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, where High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres praised her country's global engagement in the refugee cause.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 26
Some US$900,000 raised by Swedish teenagers is giving young female refugees in Rwanda the chance to become more independent and to lead productive lives.
2008-03-11
Sambeau Sam-Koskitanner, född i Kambodja, har utnämnts till Årets
Flyktingkvinna 2008 i Finland. Sam-Koskitanner var som barn tvungen att
med sin familj fly undan Pol Pots skräckvälde.
March 11, 2008
2008-03-11
Suomen Pakolaisapu ry myönsi perjantaina 7.3.2008 Vuoden Pakolaisnainen
kannustuspalkinnon Kambodzassa syntyneelle Sambeau Sam-Koskitannerille.
Sam-Koskitanner joutui pakenemaan perheensä kanssa Pol Potin hirmuhallintoa.
March 7, 2008
2008-03-07
On the occasion of International Women's Day 8th of March 2008, UNHCR launches the new “UNHCR Handbook for the Protection of Women and Girls”.
10 January 2008
Are the Nordics violating international law when they refuse to protect persons fleeing generalized and group-targeted violence, moderator and Humanitarian Law Professor, Gregor Noll, asked Nordic top officials in the “Keep Them Safe” conference in Stockholm.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, January 4
For women in the South American country of Colombia, the decades-long struggle between the government and irregular armed groups could not be more personal.
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