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News July and August 2010
Press Release, Tuesday 27 August 2010
The number of people returning voluntarily to Afghanistan from Pakistan and Iran so far this year has exceeded 100,000, almost twice as many as last year. Some 95,000 of these are from Pakistan.
Pressmeddelande, 25 augusti 2010. In Swedish.
FN:s flyktingorgan (UNHCR) har mottagit en miljon kronor av Universal Telecom, Timepiece LDA för insatsen i översvämningsdrabbade Pakistan.
Press Release, Friday 20 August 2010
Pakistan Flood Emegency:
UNHCR is increasingly concerned about the plight of flood-affected Afghan refugees in Pakistan, some of whom are now under pressure to repatriate by speculators around Peshawar seeking to develop land that until now has been occupied by refugee settlements.
Press Release, Thursday 19 August 2010
To mark World Humanitarian Day 2010, on August 19th, UNHCR is making available to interested media a rare interview with one of its staff members, Vincent Cochetel, who was kidnapped in 1998 in the Northern Caucasus and held hostage for almost a year.
Press Release, Friday 13 August 2010
Pakistan Flood Emegency:
With over 160,000 people having so far received UNHCR emergency shelter and relief assistance across flood-affected areas of Pakistan, the agency appealed on Wednesday for $41 million to help meet the urgent needs of a further 560,000 people, amounting to 80,000 families.
Press Release, Tuesday 10 August 2010
Pakistan Flood Emegency:
Pakistan’s flooding is testing the limits of the country’s emergency response capacity, as well as that of UNHCR and other UN and international agencies to respond.
Press Release, Friday 6 August 2010
Pakistan Flood Emegency:
Monsoon rain continues to sweep across parts of Pakistan. According to UNHCR implementing partners on the ground, it has been raining today in northern areas of the Swat Valley in flood-affected Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Press Release, Tuesday 3 August 2010
UNHCR, as part of a coordinated UN response, is stepping up its assistance to provide shelter to the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the worst floods and landslides northwest Pakistan has seen in decades.
News Story, 3 August 2010
Pakistan Flood Emergency:
Torrential rains and flash floods have affected around a million people in parts of southwest and northwestern Pakistan. More than one thousand people lost their lives when water inundated their homes in the past week. Though monsoon rains are nothing new for Pakistanis, it rained more than expected, washing away homes, roads and other basic infrastructure, creating the worst flood disaster in the country's history. UNHCR has launched a relief response to support the authorities to help people affected by the flood.
Press Release , Wednesday 28 July 2010
UNHCR is calling on local and central authorities in Kyrgyzstan to improve the situation and the return conditions for some 75,000 remaining internally displaced people (IDPs) who were uprooted by the violence in southern Kyrgyzstan during June.
22 July 2010
The UNHCR regional office in Stockholm has received several donations throughout the years from the Finnish Refugee Council (FRC). Between 2007 and 2009, FRC raised 6454 EUR for UNHCR.
News Story, Nansen Refugee Award 2010:
UNHCR's annual award recognizing outstanding work on behalf of refugees goes to photojournalist Alixandra Fazzina for her powerful documenting of the lives of those displaced by conflict.
Press Release, Friday 9 July 2010
2010 Nansen Award
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today announced the winner of its annual Nansen Refugee Award, British photo-journalist Alixandra Fazzina. Ms. Fazzina was chosen for her tireless dedication to uncovering and portraying the overlooked human consequences of war.
News Story, 8 July 2010
In an election year most of the focus is on domestic policies. But as in other areas, asylum and refugee policies are influenced by developments outside. With its Almedalen seminar on 5 July, UNHCR aimed to widen the perspective. There is much attention given to the EU-orchestrated harmonization. An increasingly apparent trend, however, is the political and practical cooperation among the Nordic countries.
News Stories, 6 July 2010
UNHCR has called for a significant increase in resettlement opportunities, estimating that over the next three to five years more than 805,000 refugees will need resettling in third countries.
This year's consultations, which are taking place in Geneva from July 6th to 8th, are co-chaired by Sweden and UNHCR. Dan Eliasson, Director-General of the Swedish Migration Board, and High Commissioner Guterres will open the meeting.
Press Release, Friday 2 july 2010
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has heard from the Police Chief in Orestiada in northern Greece that sixteen people drowned while trying to cross the Evros River on 29 June. Eleven of the bodies were recovered on the Greek side of the river, while a further five were found on the Turkish side. The majority are believed to be Somalis, including three women.
Pressmeddelande, torsdag 1 juli 2010, in Swedish:
Den danske författaren och journalisten Carsten Jensen deltar i en högaktuell diskussion om asyl i Norden, tillsammans med Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen och Gregor Noll.
Under rubriken ”Var går gränsen? Nordiska förhållningssätt till asylrätten” diskuterar deltagarna vad det är som styr de flyktingpolitiska besluten i de nordiska länderna.
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