Word: unhcr
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...billion people are living on less than one dollar a day; 2.4 billion people have no access to basic sanitation; and 854 million adults, 543 million of them women, are illiterate." Rieff expresses his admiration for the humanitarians--Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)--and other organizations, but he is ultimately skeptical that even their most heroic efforts can do much to change a bad world growing worse...
...Afghans," says a senior U.N. official, "this government's fate is intertwined with the American performance." Afghan exile Hamid, a Pashtun now in Quetta, Pakistan, says of Karzai, "He is nothing. Just the son of George W. Bush." Yusuf Hassan, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), remarks, "There's a sense down there, rightly or wrongly, of an occupied country...
...that Karzai's government is dominated by Panjshiri Tajiks who fought in the Northern Alliance alongside the Americans--though Karzai is Pashtun. About 1.1 million Afghan refugees have flooded back into the country since the beginning of the year--many more than aid agencies had predicted--but according to unhcr registries, less than a third of them have resettled in the Pashtun provinces, suggesting most Pashtun exiles are staying away...
AFGHANISTAN Insecurity British forces in Kabul came under fire twice within a week, and aid agencies said the security situation in the country's interior also appeared to be deteriorating. UNHCR recorded a dramatic increase in the number of refugees crossing into Pakistan, fleeing what they described as harassment by other ethnic groups. Many of the estimated 20,000 new refugees were Pashtuns from the north of the country. Others were fleeing drought...
...generous, the government contends, that there is no incentive for refugees to find a job. A married couple with two children currently gets $2,441 a month. Denmark has the highest rate of asylum acceptance in Europe: 43% of applicants are given refugee status, according to the UNHCR, compared with 32% in Sweden and 29% in Britain. (Only 41% of foreigners living in Denmark are refugees; the rest are immigrants with official permission to stay in the country...