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...Geneva, unhcr spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis called the planned change "an unfortunate precedent, being for the first time, to our knowledge, that a country with a fully functioning and credible asylum system, in the absence of anything approximating a mass influx, decides to transfer elsewhere the responsibility to handle claims made actually on the territory of the state." Coming amid tension with Indonesia over the granting of three-year visas to a group of independence activists from West Papua province, the policy shift has brought accusations of appeasement. But it's also raised questions about Australia's commitment...
...more than three months a small public garden facing the prominent Mostapha Mahmoud mosque in Cairo?s upscale Mohandessin neighborhood had been occupied by more than 2,000 Sudanese refugees. The refugees chose the garden because it faces the regional office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The leaders of the sit-in had one important demand: to be processed for transfer to a Western country. They refused any half-measure, especially being returned to Darfur in southern Sudan; or to be resettled in Egypt, where they say they suffer from discrimination and random arrest. The trouble...
...officers as well as Egyptian and Sudanese officials; furthermore, they argued that the Sudanese were violating the law with their annexation of the park and were under an obligation to respect their host country. The Egyptian foreign ministry added that Cairo had to take action after requests by the UNHCR to end the protest because the refugees in the garden did not qualify for the legal immigrant status and many were staying illegally after the expiration of their visas. For the survivors, they have been expelled from their garden and face the new year in camps in the desert, under...
...UNHCR The UN?s refugee agency is leading the organization?s effort to shelter displaced people and has already delivered tents, kitchen sets and plastic sheeting to thousands in Aceh and Sri Lanka...
...Sources: UNHCR, Chicago Tribune, Bureau of Labor Statistics, UCLA, N.Y. Daily News, WSL Strategic Retail