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10:14 | 29.06.10 |
UNHCR faser ud i det østlige Sri Lanka
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka, June 28 (UNHCR): The UN refugee agency is starting to scale back its operations to help internally displaced people in eastern Sri Lanka and is closing its office in Batticaloa this week.
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15:55 | 21.06.10 |
Flygtninge skriver breve til FN og letter deres sorger
ADEN, 21 June 2010 (IRIN) - “I arrived in Yemen in 2008 from Mogadishu,” begynder brevet. Hawo Yousuf, 28, der nu bor i en flygtningelejr brugte sine sidste penge på at få et brev skrevet til UNHCR (FNs Højkommisariat for Flygtninge) og fortælle om sin alvorlige tilstand og sindsoprivende historie.
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12:41 | 21.06.10 |
Niger forbereder sig på kommende fødevarekrise
MIRRIAH, Niger, 18 June 2010 (UNICEF) Situationen i Niger er ildevarslende: Der er stadig fire måneder til næste høst, men i mange områder er der allerede mangel på fødevarer. Børn, der lider af under- og fejlernæring, er hårdest ramt.
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13:23 | 16.06.10 |
Flygtninge vender ikke hjem
With major conflicts in Afghanistan and Somalia among those showing no signs of being resolved, the number of refugees voluntarily returning to their home countries last year plummeted to their lowest levels in two decades, according to a new United Nations report.
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13:52 | 04.06.10 |
Ny deadline for genhusning af srilankanske flygtninge
COLOMBO, 2 June 2010 (IRIN) - The Sri Lankan government has issued a new deadline to resettle tens of thousands of conflict-displaced still living in camps.
More than 60,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) continue to live in three government camps, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says.
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10:28 | 01.06.10 |
Mozambique: UNHCR og UNESCO laver levende museum i flygtningelejr
MARATANE REFUGEE CAMP, Mozambique, May 31 2010 (UNHCR): Life in a refugee camp is not a bundle of fun at the best of times. At Maratane, a typical day for a refugee consists of going to the market, working in the garden and generally pottering around the house without much to do.
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14:42 | 26.05.10 |
Darfur-flygtninge efterlades i sikkerhedsvakuum, når FN trækker sine fredsbevarende styrker ud af Tchad
Flygtningeindsatsen i Tchad kan blive undermineret som resultat af FNs beslutning om at trække sine fredsbevarende styrker ud af det centralafrikanske land i slutningen af 2010, siger FNs flygtningehøjkommissariat UNHCR.
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01:56 | 25.05.10 |
Når store humanitære NGOer lover at beskytte - hvordan går det så egentlig?
The dangers of promising to protect - Who is best-placed to protect a wounded childs physical security or human rights?
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10:09 | 14.05.10 |
Somalia: På flugt fra fattigdommen med livet som indsats
By Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews
NAIROBI, 13. Maj 2010: War and poverty have and are forcing Somalis to carry out deadly voyages to South Africa in search of riches and peace. AfricaNews reporter Muhyadin Ahmed Roble who has gone through such a dangerous journey not to South Africa but to Kenya, now profiles the journey of a young Somali to South Africa.
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16:32 | 30.04.10 |
EU bør gå foran med beskyttelse af flygtninge
UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has called on the 27 countries of the European Union (EU) to set a positive example in the area of refugee protection.
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15:57 | 29.04.10 |
Interne flygtninge vender hjem i Sri Lanka
Tusinder af internt fordrevne under borgerkrigen i Sri Lanka er begyndt at vende tilbage til deres hjem.
Some 7,000 internally displaced people (IDP) have returned to their homes in the districts of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu since last week, according to UNHCR.
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07:51 | 25.04.10 |
Ban Ki-moon bekymret over menneskeretssituationen i Vest Sahara
NEW YORK, 23 April 2010: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed Friday concern about alleged violations of human rights in the Western Sahara conflict after vowed to continue to promote the rights of Sahrawis after meeting with the head of the Frente Polisario, one of the parties to the dispute.
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17:24 | 23.04.10 |
Mange voldtægter i DR Congo
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Friday spoke out against the large number of rapes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
On average, 14 assaults have been recorded daily over the past three months. At least 200,000 cases of sexual violence have been recorded in the country in the past decade, according to UN News Centre.
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15:47 | 20.04.10 |
Sri Lanka: Internationale sundheds-NGOer tvinges væk fra den konflikramte østlige del af landet
BATTICALOA, 20 April 2010 (IRIN): Healthcare services in Sri Lanka's conflict-affected east should not be forgotten as humanitarian agencies focus their efforts on rebuilding the country's north, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
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16:51 | 16.04.10 |
Tusindvis af burundiske flygtninge får statsborgerskab i Tanzania
GENEVE, 16 April 2010: UN High Commissioner for Refugee António Guterres has lauded Tanzania's landmark decision to grant citizenship to tens of thousands of Burundian refugees who fled to Tanzania in 1972.
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17:45 | 09.04.10 |
Færre flygtninge over det Røde Hav
The number of people crossing the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea in mixed migration flows to Yemen has nearly halved during the first quarter of 2010 in comparison with the same period in 2009.
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NAIROBI, 6. April 2010 (IRIN) - Myndighederne i Somalias selvudråbte autonome region Puntland er begyndt at hjemsende hundreder af etiopere. Mange af dem er strandet i kystbyen Bosasso, hvorfra de har håbet at kunne komme videre til Yemen.
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22:30 | 09.03.10 |
Irak: Kristne flygter efter religiøst motiveret vold
FN og lokale myndigheder i den nordlige del af Irak leverer nødhjælp i form af mad, hygiejneudstyr og petroleum til hundredvis af kristne familier, som er blevet tvunget til at flygte fra deres hjem i Iraks andenstørste by Mosul efter intimidering og vold rettet specifikt imod kristne.
Skriver UN News Centre tirsdag.
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11:58 | 02.03.10 |
DR Congo: Hårde vilkår for hjemvendte flygtninge
GOMA, 1 March 2010 (IRIN): For the many thousands of people displaced by conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kivu regions who have returned to their villages, home has its many hardships.
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11:43 | 02.03.10 |
Irakiske flygtninge ser frem til valget med håb og tvivl
Geneva, 1 March 2010 (UNHCR): Like many Iraqi refugees forced from their homeland by war and sectarian conflict, Murtada hopes parliamentary elections on March 7 will restore security to Iraq to facilitate the safe return of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis living in host countries across the Middle East.
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00:09 | 22.02.10 |
Haiti: vi har kun set begyndelsen
With eight natural disasters in Haiti since 1994, January’s earthquake is likely to see hundreds of thousands more Haitians emigrate, according to IRIN news.
Not only to escape the impact of the latest disaster but also to avoid the next one - as well as political strife and poverty.
KÆMPE OPGAVE
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20:51 | 16.02.10 |
Flere somaliske flygtninge til Etiopien
NYE KAMPE I SOMALIA DRIVER HUNDREDEVIS PÅ FLUGT
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has started relocating hundreds of people fleeing an upsurge in fighting and tightened access to humanitarian aid in southern and central Somalia to a camp in neighbouring Ethiopia.
19:39 | 03.02.10 |
Eskalation i somalisk vold forværrer nødhjælp
Vold i det centrale Somalia har gjort det "svært, hvis ikke umuligt for humanitære hjælpearbejdere" at nå frem til dem, der har behov for hjælp, siger FN's Flygtningehøjkommissariat (UNHCR):
- Mange [fordrevne] rapporteres at sove i det fri med ringe ly og lidt vand, udtaler Roberta Russo, talskvinde for UNHCR Somalia i dag til Irin News.
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09:16 | 29.01.10 |
Skoleprojekt i Darfur bygger bro mellem etniske grupper
FASEI, Sudan, 28 January (UNHCR): Thanks to funding from the UN refugee agency, hundreds of primary schoolchildren in Sudan's volatile West Darfur state no longer have to study in the open. At the same time, UNHCR is helping to form bonds between different ethnic groups and avoid conflict in an area where hundreds of thousands of people have been forcibly displaced in recent years.
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