[refugee-rights] 'International Refugee Law and Contemporary Challenges' e-learning course

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:47:43 +0000

Dear Colleagues, As part of HREA's new certificate program on Migration & Asylum, HREA and the University for Peace Human Rights Centre are calling for applications for the e-learning course

[refugee-rights] Ecuador, Honduras and Portugal accede to Statelessness Conventions

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:01:12 +0000

GENEVA, October 2 (UNHCR) – UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres today praised Ecuador, Honduras and Portugal for joining the growing ranks of countries that have taken concrete steps to address the issue of statelessness.

[refugee-rights] More than 100,000 flee Syria in August, highest monthly total

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:47:47 +0000

GENEVA, September 4 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said Tuesday that the number of refugees fleeing Syria rose sharply in August, with 103,416 people seeking asylum in surrounding countries. It was the highest monthly total of the Syria crisis

[refugee-rights] China: Refugees forcibly returned to Burma

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:13:06 +0000

Thousands of Kachin at Risk From Conflict, Abuses, Aid Shortages (New York) August 24, 2012 – China should stop its forced returns of thousands of ethnic Kachin refugees to northern Burma, where they are at risk from

[refugee-rights] Australia: New refugee law discriminatory, arbitrary, unfair, inhumane

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:54:42 +0000

(Washington, DC) August 17, 2012 – The Australian parliament’s swift approval of an “offshore processing” law marks a shift in refugee policy that appears arbitrary and discriminatory on its face. The Migration

[refugee-rights] Syrian exodus grows as fighting continues

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:03:07 +0000

GENEVA, July 31 (UNHCR) – As fighting rages in Syria's largest city of Aleppo, thousands of people are huddling in fear in public buildings while thousands more flee daily into neighbouring countries that are struggling to cope with the growing

[refugee-rights] UNHCR warns of worsening global displacement over next ten years

Thu, 31 May 2012 22:48:20 +0000

NEW YORK, United States, May 31 (UNHCR) – UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres warned on Thursday that factors causing mass population flight are growing and over the coming decade more people on the move will become

[refugee-rights] Annual IDP report shows conflicts uproot millions; six-fold increase in Middle East

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:00:02 +0000

GENEVA, April 19 (UNHCR) – The Norwegian Refugee Council's (NRC) annual report on internal displacement said Thursday that there were 26.4 million people displaced within their own countries at the end of 2011, including 3.5 million forced to

[refugee-rights] Kenya: Somalia unsafe for refugees to return, says Human Rights Watch

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:14:06 +0000

(Nairobi) March 30, 2012 – Kenyan authorities should not return refugees to Somalia because of ongoing fighting and abuses against civilians in areas controlled by Kenyan forces and allied militias, Human Rights Watch said today. Instead of

[refugee-rights] Asylum claims in industrialized countries up sharply in 2011

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:04:43 +0000

GENEVA, March 27 (UNHCR) – A report released on Tuesday by the UN refugee agency shows that new conflicts and a rising outflow from older crisis spots such as Afghanistan together contributed to a 20 per cent rise in asylum claims in

[refugee-rights] UNRWA outlines steps to boost support to young Palestinian refugees

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:32:09 +0000

20 March 2012 – The United Nations agency assisting Palestinian refugees today unveiled 10 commitments through which it will strengthen support to and better engage young refugees, as it wrapped up a two-day

[refugee-rights] Afghans fleeing war find misery in urban slums

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:17:52 +0000

Amnesty International Press release 23 February 2012 Half a million Afghans displaced by fighting are struggling to survive in makeshift shelters let down by their government and international donors that look the other way, Amnesty

[refugee-rights] Thousands of Somalis flee renewed clashes into Mogadishu

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:15:12 +0000

--> Still a few places available in the short certificate course offered by HREA and the University for Peace Human Rights Centre that starts this Wednesday: International

[refugee-rights] Symposium 'Towards a Common European Asylum System: Improving Protection, Solidarity and Harmonisation' (Brussels, 21 March 2012)

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:22:46 +0000

Towards a Common European Asylum System: Improving Protection, Solidarity and Harmonisation The Silken Berlaymont Hotel, BrusselsWednesday 21st March 2012In recent years, the EU has been

[refugee-rights] France: European Court of Human Rights condemns faulty asylum procedure

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:46:19 +0000

(Paris), January 2, 2012 – France should learn the lessons of the European Court of Human Rights decision today concerning a serious deficiency in its asylum procedure. The European Court condemned the lack of a suspensive

[refugee-rights] Israel: New detention law violates rights of asylum-seekers

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:08:22 +0000

Amnesty International Press release11 January 2012 A new Israeli law allowing for automatic and lengthy detention of asylum-seekers flies in the face of international law, Amnesty International said today. Early on Tuesday

[refugee-rights] Q&A: Somali advocate represents refugee community at UNHCR ministerial meeting

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:12:56 +0000

Washington D.C., January 4 (UNHCR) – Fatima Elmi, a resettled refugee from Somalia, recently attended an international conference on the world's forcibly displaced and stateless organized the UN refugee agency.The meeting took place last month

[refugee-rights] Somaliland: Authorities deport 15 refugees, 5 asylum seekers to Ethiopia

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:26:24 +0000

(Nairobi) January 4, 2012 – The Somaliland authorities should cease forcibly returning refugees and asylum seekers to possible persecution in Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said today. On December 28, authorities returned 20 Ethiopian refugees and

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[refugee-rights] Hammarberg: The right to leave one's country should be applied without discrimination

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:03:27 +0000

Strasbourg, 22/11/2011 - Strong measures have been taken by the Macedonian authorities to prevent citizens from travelling to EU countries - and seeking asylum there. The numbers doing so have gone up considerably since the EU agreed that people in

[refugee-rights] Learning opportunities on forced migration, displacement, refugees

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:01:41 +0000

Dear Colleagues,HREA offers several courses for those interested in, or working on, (forced) migration, displacement and refugees:

[refugee-rights] E-learning course International Refugee Law and Contemporary Challenges

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:02:14 +0000

Dear Colleagues, HREA and the University for Peace Human Rights Centre are offering the e-learning course

[refugee-rights] Asylum applications in industrialized countries rise in first six months in 2011

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:55:30 +0000

GENEVA, October 18 (UNHCR) – Industrialized countries saw a 17 per cent increase in asylum applications in the first half of this year, with most claimants coming from countries with long-standing displacement situations. UNHCR's

[refugee-rights] Yemeni NGO to receive Nansen Refugee Award for life-saving work

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:37:46 +0000

GENEVA, September 13 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency announced today that its annual Nansen Refugee Award will honour a Yemen-based non-governmental organization, the Society for Humanitarian Solidarity (SHS), for its life-saving work with

[refugee-rights] Thousands still arriving on Italy's shores from Libya and Tunisia

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:14:31 +0000

16 August 2011 – People are continuing to flee Libya and Tunisia for a variety of reasons, the United Nations refugee agency reported today, noting that almost 2,000 people arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa over the weekend from the two

[refugee-rights] UNHCR helps secure health insurance for all registered refugees in Iran

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:05:11 +0000

TEHERAN, Islamic Republic of Iran, August 11 (UNHCR) – Afghan refugee Gholam Reza has been worried about his health for some time, but he's been too poor to do much about it. "We do not have health insurance and I can not afford to go to a

[refugee-rights] Kenya: Nearly half a million Somalis refugees need immediate help

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:26:39 +0000

(Nairobi) July 28, 2011 – The Kenyan government should urgently provide land for new refugee camps in response to the humanitarian crisis in existing camps near its border with Somalia, Human Rights Watch said today. Kenya should also allow

[refugee-rights] PACE delegation to visit refugee camps on Turkish-Syrian border

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:21:03 +0000

Strasbourg, 22.07.2011 – On 26 July, a four-member delegation from PACE’s Migration Committee will visit reception camps near Antakya, on the Turkish-Syrian border, set up to give refuge to the flow of people fleeing conflict in Syria.

[refugee-rights] World Refugee Day: UNHCR report finds 80 per cent of world's refugees in developing countries

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:30:08 +0000

World Refugee Day - 20 June 2011 GENEVA, June 20 (UNHCR) – A UNHCR report released today reveals deep imbalance in international support for the world's forcibly

[refugee-rights] Three years after fleeing conflict, thousands in Pakistan return home

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:19:59 +0000

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, June 7 (UNHCR) – More than 38,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) have headed home as the latest phase of a return operation in north-western Pakistan was completed over the weekend. Since this stage of the

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[refugee-rights] UNHCR seeks better rescue mechanisms after Mediterranean drownings

Tue, 10 May 2011 16:32:31 +0000

GENEVA, May 10 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Tuesday lamented the latest drowning deaths of people fleeing Libya by boat and reiterated a call for European nations to urgently improve mechanisms for rescue at sea. "In

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