20 June 2014 Today, on World Refugee Day, ECRE has handed over the ‘Europe Act Now, #HelpSyriasRefugees’ petition to Anne Kemppainen, representative of the Office of the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy. Over 100 NGOs, Members of the European...
Brussels, 20 June 2014. As UNHCR reveals that, in the space of 5 years, Syria has gone from being the world’s second largest refugee-hosting country to the country producing the second largest amount of refugees, 100 NGOs, Members of the European Parliament and 20,000...
20 June 2014 A new Practical Manual on Monitoring Immigration Detention by the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT), the International Detention Coalition (IDC) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) sets out to provide a practical tool for building...
20 June 2014 UNHCR’s updated position on returns to Southern and Central Somalia recommends that Somali asylum seekers from areas currently or recently affected by military action and/or consequent displacement, or from areas under the control of non-State groups, are...
20 June 2014 A record-breaking 51.2 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide in 2013, UNHCR’s annual Global Trends, published today, shows. This represents an average of 32,200 persons per day – or one person every four seconds – forced to...
