Press Releases

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Here you can find the latest press releases issued by UNHCR in the Baltic and Nordic countries.

Under Briefing Notes you will find the bi-weekly briefings on important developments, given by a UNHCR spokesperson in Geneva.

Mixed migration flow from the Horn of Africa reaches new record levels

Press Release 18 May 2012

A record number of African refugees and migrants are arriving in Yemen this year. More than 43,000 people reached Yemen’s shores in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea in the first four months of 2012 alone.

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Somali refugee survivors land on Malta beach, 7 reported dead

Press Release 08 May 2012

Exhausted survivors from a boat carrying Somali refugees that landed on one of Malta’s most popular beaches this weekend have told UNHCR that five men and two women aboard perished during the week-long voyage from Libya.

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Bulgaria, Moldova accede to Statelessness Conventions

Press Release 24 April 2012

These stateless women in Kyrgyzstan are originally from Tajikistan, but for various reasons they have lost their Tajik citizenship.

Bulgaria and Moldova have become the latest states to accede to the international conventions on statelessness.

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Donors gather in Sarajevo to support regional efforts to end displacement

Press Release 24 April 2012

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie met these two old sisters during a visit to a centre for the displaced in the eastern Bosnian town of Rogatica.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres is in Sarajevo this morning where he is attending an international donor conference aimed at generating funds to support the housing needs of the region’s 74,000 highly vulnerable refugees, returnees and displaced people.

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35,000 newly displaced near Sudan-South Sudan border

Press Release 24 April 2012

Sudanese refugees wait in line for household items such as blankets, mosquito nets and cooking pots at Doro Camp in South Sudan.

The recent fighting near the border between Sudan and South Sudan has displaced some 35,000 people in areas around Heglig, Talodi and other parts of South Kordofan, according to our partners there. UNHCR does not have access to the areas in question, but we are channeling aid through local agencies.

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