http://www.unhcr.se News Feed from the UNHCR´s Baltic and Nordic Office, Stockholm en UNHCR Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:41:24 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/typo3conf/ext/n4m_rss/res/unhcr_logo_rss.gif http://www.unhcr.se More than 463,000 Somali refugees now live in the camp in Kenya originally intended for 90,000. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/ee142a732adf5b1377262573f2235d86/dadaab-worlds-biggest-refugee-c.html News Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:38:25 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/ee142a732adf5b1377262573f2235d86/dadaab-worlds-biggest-refugee-c.html So, what is my story in Denmark? From time to time I get asked what I knew about Denmark before coming here. I knew that Copenhagen was the nation’s capital and I knew that the peninsula of Jutland links Denmark to the rest of Europe. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/3e1d8f3ce36bec80cf106b6ff99e80b4/part-2-the-journey-never-ends.html News Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:28:40 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/3e1d8f3ce36bec80cf106b6ff99e80b4/part-2-the-journey-never-ends.html UNHCR is delighted to have received a SEK 9 million contribution from the Swedish Postcode Lottery on 13 February. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/363d8ecf8fd41ae31538151bd7177fee/record-breaking-contribution-from-th.html News Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:40:31 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/363d8ecf8fd41ae31538151bd7177fee/record-breaking-contribution-from-th.html In Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania UNHCR is working with governments to relocate refugees fleeing Mali to safer locations away from border areas. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/d2b0d2d6fd091fe1eafb8961451740dc/thousands-of-malian-refugees-fleeing.html Press-Release Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:44:07 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/d2b0d2d6fd091fe1eafb8961451740dc/thousands-of-malian-refugees-fleeing.html At least 11 people have drowned and another 34 are missing following a boat incident this week in the Gulf of Aden. Survivors found on Somali beaches on Wednesday evening explained that their boat, crewed by three smugglers and carrying 58 passengers, had set sail for Yemen last Saturday (04 February). http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/145dc32cd8f38a1edd68df201cb42840/somalis-perish-in-new-boat-disaster.html Press-Release Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:23:21 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/145dc32cd8f38a1edd68df201cb42840/somalis-perish-in-new-boat-disaster.html The UN refugee agency is seeking $145 million in additional funds to help refugees fleeing fighting in Sudan’s Blue Nile and South Kordofan states into Ethiopia and South Sudan. The amount is meant to cover the needs of up to 185,000 Sudanese refugees in the two countries. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/8862ca7351bcb93571b005ac4615abdc/unhcr-seeking-145-million-in-urgen.html Press-Release Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:18:30 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/8862ca7351bcb93571b005ac4615abdc/unhcr-seeking-145-million-in-urgen.html I was a refugee once. From today’s perspective, as the father of two daughters, I am grateful that I was only a seventeen-year-old boy in that time of turmoil, uncertainty and doubts. What I learned back then was that nobody understands a refugee and his situation unless they, too, are one. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/af681505bae9f4df5d75552716dfa991/part-1-the-journey-never-ends.html News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/af681505bae9f4df5d75552716dfa991/part-1-the-journey-never-ends.html The small town of Haparanda, right on the border with Finland, is as far from Stockholm as Berlin. Here, a locally driven integration initiative brings people together. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/4698c6b75b28ab6a4ce47bff567a02d1/bridging-the-divide-integration-in.html News Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:51:05 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/4698c6b75b28ab6a4ce47bff567a02d1/bridging-the-divide-integration-in.html UNHCR is implementing a set of comprehensive strategies aimed at closing three of Africa’s longstanding refugee situations, namely those involving Angolan, Liberian and Rwandan refugees. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/390fa6d9f9cdde0f0b7bd953a2b0c5e4/unhcr-working-to-help-conclude-three.html Press-Release Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:14:28 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/390fa6d9f9cdde0f0b7bd953a2b0c5e4/unhcr-working-to-help-conclude-three.html UNHCR has deployed emergency teams to countries surrounding Mali to help meet the needs of some 20,000 people who have been forced to flee fighting in northern Mali. Most of the displaced are in Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/512a244475a9167127dac25195ec75e9/violence-in-northern-mali-forces-ov.html Press-Release Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:39:29 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/512a244475a9167127dac25195ec75e9/violence-in-northern-mali-forces-ov.html According to UNHCR estimates, more than 1,500 people drowned or went missing while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe in 2011. This makes 2011 the deadliest year for this region since UNHCR started to record these statistics in 2006. The previous high was in 2007 when 630 people were reported dead or missing. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/19d6f62e77f444a718e8611164dff0b2/mediterranean-takes-record-as-most-d.html Press-Release Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:21:02 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/19d6f62e77f444a718e8611164dff0b2/mediterranean-takes-record-as-most-d.html In an effort to maintain operations despite prevailing insecurity and reduced humanitarian access at Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, UNHCR has been exploring ways to ensure uninterrupted assistance and services in the world’s largest refugee settlement. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/ee90b78f050ce091653ff971123d94d1/unhcr-employs-alternative-strategie.html Press-Release Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/ee90b78f050ce091653ff971123d94d1/unhcr-employs-alternative-strategie.html To now once again be standing outside the restaurant was like traveling through time. It felt like it was only yesterday I was standing in the kitchen, doing the dishes hour after hour. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/7a3bf46a6f62b0270f6e601be064d499/my-sons-magic-box.html News Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/7a3bf46a6f62b0270f6e601be064d499/my-sons-magic-box.html The experience of fleeing your home country never leaves you, but changes over time. Follow our five columnists' personal stories. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/1d0580c4c1ff31919605c318254b898b/unhcrs-new-nordic-columnists-five.html News Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:41:14 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/1d0580c4c1ff31919605c318254b898b/unhcrs-new-nordic-columnists-five.html At least one Sudanese refugee boy is injured and 14 others missing following an air raid in South Sudan Monday 23 January. UNHCR is alarmed by this attack on vulnerable refugees already fleeing violence in Sudans Blue Nile state. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/590a3c6db2d02bc66ab35e17b0e27ada/unhcr-condemns-air-raid-on-sudanese.html Press-Release Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:06:06 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/590a3c6db2d02bc66ab35e17b0e27ada/unhcr-condemns-air-raid-on-sudanese.html January - June 2012. Denmark faces a great challenge – as well as an outstanding opportunity – to consolidate progress and move forward. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/81ef662f04004e9b92850103ed408ab7/unhcrs-recommendations-to-denmark.html News Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/81ef662f04004e9b92850103ed408ab7/unhcrs-recommendations-to-denmark.html The Finnish Refugee Council has responded to the Horn of Africa emergency with a generous contribution to the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/5f6543132666a1a94e2f1ae76d97c1eb/finnish-refugee-council-collects-fun.html News Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:40:00 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/5f6543132666a1a94e2f1ae76d97c1eb/finnish-refugee-council-collects-fun.html Despite growing instability and a worsening security in Yemen, a record 103,000 refugees, asylum seekers and migrants from the Horn of Africa made the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden and the Red sea in 2011. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/64b45619b6623ea557078789759c7924/record-number-of-african-refugees-an.html Press-Release Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:51:39 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/64b45619b6623ea557078789759c7924/record-number-of-african-refugees-an.html If your name is Kamran Ahmad you are 25 per cent less likely to be invited to a job interview in Norway than if you have Norwegian sounding name according to a new report. The results have stirred the integration debate. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/3eb8a6231146a091451bb01a864dbbad/different-name-different-opportunit.html News Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/3eb8a6231146a091451bb01a864dbbad/different-name-different-opportunit.html On Sunday, 33 unaccompanied children departed from Tunisia’s Shousha refugee camp to Norway as part of their resettlement process. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/bd3b052565b18087beb4ed9d672d6459/resettlement-of-unaccompanied-childr.html News Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:16:12 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/bd3b052565b18087beb4ed9d672d6459/resettlement-of-unaccompanied-childr.html New year, new opportunities. Denmark starts the year with pledges that will benefit refugees and internally displaced worldwide. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/800300790d6987ae7423242ea4ad86bf/denmark-supports-the-refugee-cause.html News Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/800300790d6987ae7423242ea4ad86bf/denmark-supports-the-refugee-cause.html UNHCR is increasingly concerned about insecurity in and around camps hosting hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in the Horn of Africa. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/a87755e9eae011d9d00242d355bd3967/refugee-camps-in-the-horn-of-africa.html Press-Release Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/a87755e9eae011d9d00242d355bd3967/refugee-camps-in-the-horn-of-africa.html Abumajid, his wife and their eight children is one of the refugee families in Shousha waiting for resettlement to a third country. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/16d4684ae4ba99060ee7055efb673bbe/the-nordics-come-to-shousha-refugees.html News Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:48:03 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/16d4684ae4ba99060ee7055efb673bbe/the-nordics-come-to-shousha-refugees.html The UN refugee agency has ended its assistance to nearly 2 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Uganda as the vast majority have returned home. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/89821f8bb14ec2b5c5dad1603e031321/unhcr-closes-chapter-on-ugandas-i.html Press-Release Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/89821f8bb14ec2b5c5dad1603e031321/unhcr-closes-chapter-on-ugandas-i.html The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, voiced today his deep regrets about the senseless killing of a refugee leader in the Dadaab refugee complex in northern Kenya yesterday evening. http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/31be5f747cdde68eef4a635fbc809014/unhcr-deeply-regrets-killing-of-a-so.html Press-Release Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.unhcr.se/en/media/artikel/31be5f747cdde68eef4a635fbc809014/unhcr-deeply-regrets-killing-of-a-so.html