This was a vicious attack on a clearly marked UNHCR bus carrying civilians.
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The humanitarian emergency response by the UN country team, including UNHCR, has gradually shifted from emergency response to recovery and rehabilitation and, where feasible, towards development.
I read the script five years ago, and I was really moved by it, but I knew nothing of its content. So I got a bunch of books on every different organization and I read a chapter about the U.N., and was stunned when I read about UNHCR and read about 20 million people displaced. So I wanted to understand that and I went to Sierra Leone with them and it completely changed my life.
We have no other opportunity but to use helicopters and UNHCR buses to move around. These citizens are in a difficult situation. They are surrounded.
In the camps, the malnutrition rates and morbidity increased instantly. Our colleagues from UNHCR UN High Commissioner for Refugees, they also noticed that sexually-transmitted diseases increased too, like AIDS as some refugees had to turn to prostitution
There might be people of concern to the UNHCR ... There might be people who have lost their documents in the chaos.
In total, about half a million Angolans are estimated to have repatriated, with or without UNHCR assistance, since the April 2002 cease-fire that brought to an end Angola's 27-year civil war.
The incident was a clear attack on UNHCR as well as on the bus, ... And that's very demoralizing for us, having spent so much time with these peoples, the refugees we brought back, the work we've done in Kosovo, to have a frontal attack on UNHCR.
We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.
The UNHCR has told the Egyptian authorities in meetings that the situation should be dealt with peacefully.
The true numbers can only be guessed at. Thousands of Somalis arrive in Yemen every year, including an estimated average of 100 people per day during the annual September to March period of good sailing weather. Last September, UNHCR called for international action to stem the flow of desperate people across the Gulf of Aden after at least 150 people died in a three-week period.
She pledged that her government would work with UNHCR and other partners to reintegrate them into their communities, to identify employment opportunities, and to help them obtain those basic services that will enable them to resume a normal life. Her filmed message will be part of a UNHCR mass information campaign for some 190,000 Liberian refugees who are still scattered across West Africa.
That horrific voyage is not unusual. Smugglers frequently beat their passengers or force them overboard while still well away from shore. UNHCR has in the past thanked the crews of passing ships who have saved people found drifting helplessly in the shark-infested waters.
The UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) office illegally dealt with the issue ... beyond its authority, (and) thus laid obstacles in the process of the inter-Korean reconciliation.