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Dec 2015
Region-Country: Europe and Central Asia / Greece Themes: Missing Migrants Greece – IOM confirmed yesterday (21/12) that over a million irregular migrants and refugees arrived in Europe in 2015, mostly from Syria, Africa and South Asia. Through the weekend, IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix – Flow Monitoring System counted 999,745 irregular arrivals across the Mediterranean, including migrants journeying by both land and sea to Greece, as well as to Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Malta and Cyprus. With arrivals of 4,141 migrants or refugees landing in Greece on Monday, IOM reports total arrivals to Europe at......
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22
Dec 2015
Persecution, conflict and poverty have forced an unprecedented one million people to flee to Europe in 2015, according to estimates by the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration, IOM. As of 21 December, some 972,500 had crossed the Mediterranean Sea, according to UNHCR figures. In addition, IOM estimates that over 34,000 have crossed from Turkey into Bulgaria and Greece by land. The number of people displaced by war and conflict is the highest seen in Western and Central Europe since the 1990s, when several conflicts broke out in......
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22
Dec 2015
Central African Republic refugees at the Timangolo site in Cameroon, including mothers and young children, queue for food GENEVA, Dec 18 (UNHCR) – With almost a million people having crossed the Mediterranean as refugees and migrants so far this year, and conflicts in Syria and elsewhere continuing to generate staggering levels of human suffering, 2015 is likely to exceed all previous records for global forced displacement, the UN Refugee Agency warned in a new report today. UNHCR’s Mid-Year Trends 2015 report, covering the period from January to end June, and looking at......
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09
Dec 2015
UN Country Team Assistance to Refugee and Migrant needs in Serbia so far amounts to USD 7.45 Billion
Belgrade, 9 December 2015 – Between June and early December, the UN Country Team in Serbia has already provided support in value of USD 7.45 million (or 901 billion RSD) worth of assistance to help the country deal with the refugee and migrant crisis, reported Michel Saint-Lot, the acting United Nations Resident Coordinator in Serbia at a briefing for international partners in Belgrade on Wednesday. More support is on the way. The UN Country team announced the launch of a Regional Response Plan in which the UN agencies seek a total of......
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09
Dec 2015
Joint UNHCR/Council of Europe statement to mark Human Rights Day on 10 December 09.12.2015 – Ahead of Human Rights Day, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the head of the 47-nation Council of Europe have urged European states to honour their international commitments to guarantee basic human rights for refugees and migrants. They also called on governments, civil society and media professionals to step up efforts to counter racism and xenophobia, which can undermine support for asylum and protection. “This is the largest movement of refugees and migrants Europe has seen......
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09
Dec 2015
Ženeva, 3. decembar 2015. godine UNHCR je duboko zabrinut zbog tenzija i nasilja na granici između Grčke i Bivše Jugoslovenske Republike Makedonije i poziva vlasti obe države da upravljaju granicama u skladu sa principima zaštite ljudskih prava i prava izbeglica. Ovih dana došlo je do porasta tenzija u Idomeniju, na grčkoj strani granice usled ograničenja prijema izbeglica i migranata koji ne dolaze iz Sirije, Avganistana i Iraka a koja su uvele države duž zapadnobalkanske rute. Te tenzije su, u nekoliko navrata, dovele do nasilja i privremenog zatvaranja granice. U tom smislu, UNHCR......
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