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An independent source of information about the way the UN refugee agency decides refugee cases.

 

What’s New

UNHCR RSD statistical portrait for 2006

 

UNHCR RSD applications grow for fourth straight year in 2006, while government RSD declines

 

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Total RSD applications submitted to UNHCR offices (since 1998)

 

UNHCR offices with the most individual refugee applicants

(since 1998)

 

Countries where UNHCR performs RSD for 2006

 

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UNHCR-Beirut tests sharing evidence with legal representatives in RSD applications

Pilot project breaks with longstanding policy by letting legal aid program review UNHCR files and case assessments

 

 

Is the Palestinian exclusion eroding?

UNHCR extends protection to Palestinians in Jordan and Syria, departing from decades-old practice

 

 

FORUM

Published elsewhere …

Mauro De Lorenzo

The Washington Post on 2 May 2007(external link)

Dignity, Safety and Health for Refugees

“Wherever UNHCR is responsible for determining refugee status, it fails to meet its own guidelines for fairness. And wherever UNHCR warehouses refugees in camps -- sometimes for decades -- it colludes in human rights violations on a large scale, with support from the American taxpayer.”

 

 

Last update: 1 August 2007

 

 

 

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