GenevaLunch » UNHCR http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +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.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Angelina Jolie given new refugees post as Special Envoyhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/17/angelina-joly-given-new-refugees-post-as-special-envoy/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/17/angelina-joly-given-new-refugees-post-as-special-envoy/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:32:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69136 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Actress Angelina Jolie, who has for a decade been an active Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, has been named Special Envoy of High Commissioner António Guterres. Jolie has done more than 40 field visits around the world, says the Geneva-based organization, “becoming an expert on the phenomenon [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/17/angelina-joly-given-new-refugees-post-as-special-envoy/feed/ 0 S Sudan agrees to land mine ban treaty; fears grow over cross-border bombinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/11/s-sudan-agrees-to-land-mine-ban-treaty-fears-grow-over-cross-border-bombing/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/11/s-sudan-agrees-to-land-mine-ban-treaty-fears-grow-over-cross-border-bombing/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:40:06 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63460 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Friday 11 November was a day of rising fears internationally that tensions are building along the Sudan-South Sudan border after a series of bombs were dropped just inside South Sudan’s Unity state, hitting a refugee camp. Several Geneva-based humanitarian groups expressed their growing concern Friday. And then late Friday came some good [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/11/s-sudan-agrees-to-land-mine-ban-treaty-fears-grow-over-cross-border-bombing/feed/ 0 Tunisian asylum seekers up, Swiss return 351 people to Italy (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/09/tunisian-asylum-seekers-up-swiss-return-351-people-to-italy-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/09/tunisian-asylum-seekers-up-swiss-return-351-people-to-italy-update/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:31:23 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63386 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The number of asylum seekers in Switzerland rose 4.9 percent in October, representing 100 more individuals (total, 31 October: 2,142) than in September,  new figures from the Federal Migration Office shows. The office says that at the end of September the figures for the second quarter of the year were stable, with [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/09/tunisian-asylum-seekers-up-swiss-return-351-people-to-italy-update/feed/ 2 Supplies reaching Turkey quake victims, where 4,000 are injuredhttp://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 UN refugee agency in Kandahar attacked, 3 dead, 2 woundedhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/31/un-refugee-agency-in-kandahar-attacked-3-dead-2-wounded/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/31/un-refugee-agency-in-kandahar-attacked-3-dead-2-wounded/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:48:50 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63028 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Three staff members died and two others were injured when a suicide bomb went off at the UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) head office in Kandahar, Afghanistan about 08:00 Monday morning 31 October.The Geneva-based agency says the functioning of its office in Kandahar has been seriously disrupted. The agency has “facilitated [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/31/un-refugee-agency-in-kandahar-attacked-3-dead-2-wounded/feed/ 0 World’s asylum seekers increased by 17% in first half 2011http://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 Two MSF workers kidnapped at Kenya’s Dabaab refugee camp, driver shothttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/13/two-msf-workers-kidnapped-at-kenyas-dabaab-refugee-camp-driver-shot/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/13/two-msf-workers-kidnapped-at-kenyas-dabaab-refugee-camp-driver-shot/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:36:20 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62460 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Two women, Medecin Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff, were kidnapped at 13:20 Thursday 13 October from the Ifo extension area of the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya. Their driver is undergoing urgent medical treatment after being shot. Dadaab is the world’s largest refugee camp, with 463,739 Somali refugees, more than 190,000 of whom [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/13/two-msf-workers-kidnapped-at-kenyas-dabaab-refugee-camp-driver-shot/feed/ 0 UN group to recommend end of Rwandan refugee statushttp://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 70http://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 10,000 untreated Iraqi asylum demands saga faces new questionshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/30/10000-untreated-iraqi-asylum-demands-saga-faces-new-questions/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/30/10000-untreated-iraqi-asylum-demands-saga-faces-new-questions/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:04:38 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61990 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The mystery and confusion surrounding 10,000 requests for asylum by Iraqi citizens in 2006 that were reportedly never treated by the Swiss government continues. TSR public television reporting 30 September that new information it obtained shows no one at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees told the Swiss representative to Syria at [...]

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