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News August and September 2010
Press Release, Tuesday 7 September 2010
UNHCR is alarmed by the further deterioration we are seeing in the situation in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Our partners report that fighting over the past two weeks between the transitional government and al-Shabaab has cost more than 230 civilian lives with at least 400 people wounded and 23,000 displaced. So far this year over 200,000 civilians are estimated to have fled their homes.
Press Release, Friday 3 September 2010
Despite flood waters receding in some parts of Pakistan and more people returning home, the overall humanitarian situation is still very grave. Conditions in the thousands of spontaneous settlements and camps that have sprung up over the last few weeks are desperate. We have had reports overnight of new flooding in parts of Dadu Tehsil in Sindh province as embankments are breached.
Press Release, Friday 3 September 2010
UNHCR is very concerned by on-going forced returns of Iraqi citizens from Western European countries. On September 1st, a chartered flight with 61 people on board, mainly Iraqis who had been residing in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the United Kingdom, landed at Baghdad airport. UNHCR has so far not been able to confirm reports that three Iranians were among those on board.
Pressmeddelande, 3 september 2010. In Swedish.
FN:s flyktingorgan (UNHCR) har mottagit två miljoner svenska kronor från Svenska PostkodLotteriet för insatsen i översvämningsdrabbade Pakistan.
Press Release, Tuesday 27 August 2010
The number of people returning voluntarily to Afghanistan from Pakistan and Iran so far this year has exceeded 100,000, almost twice as many as last year. Some 95,000 of these are from Pakistan.
Pressmeddelande, 25 augusti 2010. In Swedish.
FN:s flyktingorgan (UNHCR) har mottagit en miljon kronor av Universal Telecom, Timepiece LDA för insatsen i översvämningsdrabbade Pakistan.
Press Release, Friday 20 August 2010
Pakistan Flood Emegency:
UNHCR is increasingly concerned about the plight of flood-affected Afghan refugees in Pakistan, some of whom are now under pressure to repatriate by speculators around Peshawar seeking to develop land that until now has been occupied by refugee settlements.
Press Release, Thursday 19 August 2010
To mark World Humanitarian Day 2010, on August 19th, UNHCR is making available to interested media a rare interview with one of its staff members, Vincent Cochetel, who was kidnapped in 1998 in the Northern Caucasus and held hostage for almost a year.
Press Release, Friday 13 August 2010
Pakistan Flood Emegency:
With over 160,000 people having so far received UNHCR emergency shelter and relief assistance across flood-affected areas of Pakistan, the agency appealed on Wednesday for $41 million to help meet the urgent needs of a further 560,000 people, amounting to 80,000 families.
Press Release, Tuesday 10 August 2010
Pakistan Flood Emegency:
Pakistan’s flooding is testing the limits of the country’s emergency response capacity, as well as that of UNHCR and other UN and international agencies to respond.
Press Release, Friday 6 August 2010
Pakistan Flood Emegency:
Monsoon rain continues to sweep across parts of Pakistan. According to UNHCR implementing partners on the ground, it has been raining today in northern areas of the Swat Valley in flood-affected Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Press Release, Tuesday 3 August 2010
UNHCR, as part of a coordinated UN response, is stepping up its assistance to provide shelter to the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the worst floods and landslides northwest Pakistan has seen in decades.
News Story, 3 August 2010
Pakistan Flood Emergency:
Torrential rains and flash floods have affected around a million people in parts of southwest and northwestern Pakistan. More than one thousand people lost their lives when water inundated their homes in the past week. Though monsoon rains are nothing new for Pakistanis, it rained more than expected, washing away homes, roads and other basic infrastructure, creating the worst flood disaster in the country's history. UNHCR has launched a relief response to support the authorities to help people affected by the flood.
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