GenevaLunch » refugees http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:16:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Refugees die as several sea crossings attempted http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/refugees-die-as-several-sea-crossings-attempted/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/refugees-die-as-several-sea-crossings-attempted/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:14:06 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64507 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Four bodies were found and other people are known to have drowned, says the UN refugee agency UNHCR in Geneva, after the Moroccan Royal Navy guard rescued 53 people from a boat that sank off the coast near Dar Kabdani. The vessel was carrying more than 60 people and included several pregnant [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/refugees-die-as-several-sea-crossings-attempted/feed/ 0 Visp asylum centre raid nets drugs, cash, illegal visitors http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/06/visp-asylum-centre-raid-nets-drugs-cash-illegal-visitors/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/06/visp-asylum-centre-raid-nets-drugs-cash-illegal-visitors/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:18:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64457 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Canton Valais police raided the Visp asylum centre Monday and found 156 grams of cocaine, several hundred grams of marijuana, a fake CHF200 bill and CHF1,500 in cash. Five people were arrested; a 20-year-old Gambian for drug abuse, a 22year-old from Equatorial Guinea for being in Switzerland illegally, two Nigerians ages 21 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/06/visp-asylum-centre-raid-nets-drugs-cash-illegal-visitors/feed/ 0 Switzerland’s foreigners, poor and criminal or rich and comfortable http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/03/switzerlands-foreigners-poor-and-criminal-or-rich-and-comfortable/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/03/switzerlands-foreigners-poor-and-criminal-or-rich-and-comfortable/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:26:40 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64383 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland, with a foreign population that is 24 percent of the total, is grappling with the extremes they bring: what some consider undesirable foreigners, on the one hand, and on the other hand those who help finance a more comfortable life for their communes. Most, of course, sit somewhere in the middle, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/03/switzerlands-foreigners-poor-and-criminal-or-rich-and-comfortable/feed/ 1 Supplies reaching Turkey quake victims, where 4,000 are injured http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/01/supplies-reaching-turkey-quake-victims-where-4000-are-injured/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/01/supplies-reaching-turkey-quake-victims-where-4000-are-injured/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:24:36 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63080 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The UN refugee organization, UNHCR, says supplies from several organizations, including its own, are now flowing into the region in Turkey hit by an earthquake 10 days ago. The UNHCR says that government officials now say 600 people died and 4,000 are injured as a result of the earthquake. “The city of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/01/supplies-reaching-turkey-quake-victims-where-4000-are-injured/feed/ 0 World’s asylum seekers increased by 17% in first half 2011 http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/worlds-asylum-seekers-increased-by-17-in-first-half-2011/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/worlds-asylum-seekers-increased-by-17-in-first-half-2011/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:34:29 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62553 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The number of asylum seekers worldwide increased by 17 percent, the UN refugee group UNHCR announced Tuesday. Applications to industrialized countries numbered 198,300 from 1 January to 30 June 2011, with “most claimants coming from countries with longstanding displacement situations.” The figures are part of report issued 18 October by the UN [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/worlds-asylum-seekers-increased-by-17-in-first-half-2011/feed/ 0 UN group to recommend end of Rwandan refugee status http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/10/un-group-to-recommend-end-of-rwandan-refugee-status/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/10/un-group-to-recommend-end-of-rwandan-refugee-status/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:36:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62297 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA,  SWITZERLAND – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, will be recommending to states that they end Rwandan refugee status as of 31 December, with the change taking effect in July 2012. The move is one of the clearest signs to date of the normalization of Rwanda’s political and economic situation. A 1990 civil [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/10/un-group-to-recommend-end-of-rwandan-refugee-status/feed/ 1 Jolie asked to take on new refugees role as Somalia blast kills 70 http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/04/jolie-asked-to-take-on-new-refugees-role-as-somalia-blast-kills-70/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/04/jolie-asked-to-take-on-new-refugees-role-as-somalia-blast-kills-70/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:24:47 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62055 GenevaLunch.com Special envoy Joli can help draw attention to “some of the world’s most difficult refugee situations” GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Actress Angelina Jolie was asked Tuesday 4 October by the head of the UN refugee organization UNHCR to take on a new role as special envoy, in the wake of several new emergency refugee situations this [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/04/jolie-asked-to-take-on-new-refugees-role-as-somalia-blast-kills-70/feed/ 0 Ikea makes largest private donation ever to UN, Kenyan refugee camp http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/01/ikea-makes-largest-private-donation-ever-to-un-kenyan-refugee-camp/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/01/ikea-makes-largest-private-donation-ever-to-un-kenyan-refugee-camp/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:12:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61120 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Ikea Foundation has donated $62 million to the UN refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, working with the UNHCR. The camp, which is a focal point for Somalians fleeing fighting, drought and famine, now hosts 440,000 refugees from Somalia, 152,000 of whom have arrived this year. “The donation, which will be staggered [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/01/ikea-makes-largest-private-donation-ever-to-un-kenyan-refugee-camp/feed/ 0 UN refugee organization turns 60 today (update on Somalia) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/28/un-refugee-organization-turns-60-today-update-on-somalia/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/28/un-refugee-organization-turns-60-today-update-on-somalia/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:11:30 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60246 GenevaLunch.com Europe, with only 29 percent of world’s refugee applications, called on to do more Update 11:30, latest Somalia figures  GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – UNHCR, the Geneva-based refugee organization, barely has time to observe its own birthday, which is in itself a comment on the state of refugee affairs in the world today.The UN Convention Relating to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/28/un-refugee-organization-turns-60-today-update-on-somalia/feed/ 1 UN refugee organization begs countries to take in more people http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/04/un-refugee-organization-begs-countries-to-take-in-more-people/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/04/un-refugee-organization-begs-countries-to-take-in-more-people/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:04:54 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59469 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The gap is widening, between the number of refugees in the world who need somewhere to go and the number of places countries are offering them, the UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) in Geneva says. The Geneva-based organization presented more than 108,000 refugees for settlement in 2010 and some 73,000 were [...]

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