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News February and March 2010
News Story, 16 March 2010
STOCKHOLM, (UNHCR) -- When Mubara Abdulhassan fled from Darfur in 2004, he could not imagine that the journey would eventually take him to the northern parts of Sweden. The dangerous route to Europe led him to Istanbul, where he met his destiny in several ways: he came into contact with UNHCR and was resettled to Sweden, he met the future mother of his children, and he met Necati Sonmez, adocumentary filmmaker. Now the story about Mubara is being filmed in the form of a docudrama with the working title “Somewhere in Africa”. UNHCR Stockholm met Mubara Abdulhassan and Necati Sonmez on a snowy day in early 2010.
Press Release, 12 March 2010
UNHCR is extremely worried about the worsening situation for the civilian population in Somalia which is, once again, exposed to relentless and indiscriminate fighting in Mogadishu and elsewhere in the country. We estimate that since the beginning of the year more than 100,000 Somali civilians have been forced to flee their homes across the country.
News story, 08.03.2010
REVINGE, 8 March (UNHCR) -- Operating from a sprawling base camp atop a frozen hilltop on the outskirts of Revinge, 24 long-time aid workers have arrived from various locations across the globe to address humanitarian needs facing the host community and the uprooted civilians.
Participants in the emergency training course are enthusiastic, despite the sub zero degree nights living in tents and the tense days facing experienced actors playing angry officials and traumatised displaced persons.
Press Release 1 March, 2010
STOCKHOLM, March 1 (UNHCR) - NRK Søndagsrevyen’s reportage yesterday on the situation of internally displaced Roma in the lead polluted Cesmin Lug and Osterode camps in Kosovo is very disturbing. Well aware of the untenable situation, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has for years worked to assist the population in the two camps in various ways – including providing health education, medical treatment and food supplements and by improving the hygienic situation - and has urged responsible parties to find alternative solutions for the groups. The reportage leaves the impression that UNHCR has been in charge of the camps for the last ten years and thus is accountable for the situation. This is not correct. UNHCR ended its responsibility for these camps in 2001.
Press release, 10.02.2010
Angelina Jolie, who said she was in Haiti to "listen and to learn," visited
medical centres, the UN mission and met with vulnerable children. On her
arrival in the Haitian capital, Jolie was briefed by the United Nations
Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General Edmond Mulet on
the scale of the humanitarian operation to date and the challenges that
remain.
News story, 08.02.2010
The Baltic and Nordic countries received more than 50,000 applications
for asylum in 2009. Almost half of these were lodged in Sweden,
where applications remained on par with the previous year.
Press release, 02.02.2010
UNHCR welcomes the approval by the Council of Ministers of Spain on 29
January of the establishment of an annual refugee resettlement programme,
in accordance with the recently amended asylum law.
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