Tag: UNHCR

South Sudan – from cease-fire to sustainable peace?

By Ivan Simonovic “We were picked up at checkpoints or during house…

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‘I wanted to lie down and die’

New report by Human Rights Watch slams Egypt and Sudan in trafficking…

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Refugees from Syria released

Despite conflicting figures all parties agree most refugees from Syria have been…

Hend Kortam Hend Kortam

Refugees should not participate in domestic politics: UNHCR official

RSM activist highlights hardships Syrian refugees face in Egypt

AbdelHalim H. AbdAllah AbdelHalim H. AbdAllah

Refugees assaulted in detention

Ministry of Interior said these were “allegations” and dismissed them

Hend Kortam Hend Kortam

Dozens of detained refugees begin hunger strike

Over 50 Syrian and Palestinian refugees are protesting unlawful detention in poor…

Aaron T. Rose Aaron T. Rose

State of Syrian refugees in Egypt addressed in one-day seminar

The seminar comes one day after an extensive Human Rights Watch report…

Hend Kortam Hend Kortam

Twelve dead in Alexandria shipwreck

116 rescued by coast guard

Aaron T. Rose Aaron T. Rose

High level UNHCR talks on Syrian refugees

Talks in Geneva take place as the number of Syrian refugees has…

Hend Kortam Hend Kortam

President and ministers sued for attempted deportation of over 500 Syrian refugees

ECESR and FIDH decry hostility towards Syrian refugees in Egypt; call on…

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