UNHCR RSD local issues

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Recent Information on local UNHCR RSD developments

(compiled by RSDWatch and other sources)

 

Is the Palestinian exclusion eroding in the Middle East? UNHCR extends protection to Palestinian refugees in Jordan and Syria (1 August 2007)

 

Local focus: Responding to Hong Kong critics, UNHCR-Beijing implies that 2005 Procedural Standards are not binding

(6 September 2006)

 

In the News: N. Korean refugees arrested in Thailand; UNHCR plans resettlement (external link) (posted 6 September 2006)

 

In the News: Refugees International finds UNHCR RSD adds to hardships of Burmese in India (external link) (posted 6 September 2006)

 

 

In the News: European Court of Human Rights casts doubt on UNHCR RSD, blocks deportation by Turkey (16 August 2006)

Local focus: UNHCR begins individual assessment of Sudanese refugees in Israel

In the News: Sudanese protestors in Cairo who objected to UNHCR’s RSD policies killed and detained in Egyptian police raid (originally posted 13 November 2005, updated 10 March 2006)

In the forum: UNHCR RSD — The Kenyan experience (13 November 2005)

New report: Study by Frontiers Association addresses gaps in Palestinian refugee status in Lebanon (24 August 2005)

In the News: JRS/IRC call for UNHCR to resume RSD in Thailand (10 August 2005)

In the News: Foreigner registration crisis grips UNHCR in Kenya (11 July 2005)

In the News: Malaysian officials say government should take over RSD, while human rights group urges Hong Kong to develop an asylum system (11 July 2005)

In the News: Iraqis flood into Syria, but most lack protection (11 July 2005)

Vietnam/Cambodia: RI concerned for Montagnard refugees (external link) (16 May 2005)

Local focus: Burmese asylum-seekers in Thailand (11 May 2005)

Update from Jordan (11 May 2005)

In the News: Update from Nauru (20 April 2005)

Local focus: Jordan (20 April 2005)

Local focus: Malaysia (28 February 2005)

  

RSDWatch.org

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

 

RSDWatch report

No Margin for Error

Several large UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) field offices have failed to fully comply with the modest standards of fairness that the UN refugee agency set for its refugee status determination (RSD) procedures nearly three years ago. (25 September 2006)

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