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UNHCR remains firmly opposed to arrangements that seek to transfer refugees and asylum-seekers to third countries in the absence of sufficient safeguards and standards. Such arrangements simply shift asylum responsibilities, evade international obligations, and are contrary to the letter and spirit of the Refugee Convention. – Gillian Triggs	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I have been watching the United Nations, UNHCR distribute cash debit cards to migrants. They’re providing food, basic necessities, prescription drugs. They call it movement assistance, which is to say they're providing, transportation money so that migrants can continue moving forward. – Todd Bensman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The state in which a boat in distress is first identified bears the primary responsibility for providing or ensuring a place of safety, uNHCR is deeply concerned by recent delays in rescue and disembarkation for refugees in distress at sea. – Catherine Stubberfield	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Peter Anthony Gallo, an international lawyer and former investigator for the UNs own watchdog, the OIOS, told Fox News that Peter Anthony Gallo was not surprised by the allegations. [ They ] do not surprise me in the slightest ; there is nothing unusual in them and they could just as easily have come from any one of a number of Organizations in the UN system because they reflect the management culture of disregard for the staff, disregard for the rules and a general air of entitlement and impunity, he said. Gallo who himself was a whistleblower at the U.N. and now director of, Hear their Cries, a group that reports on sexual abuse and exploitation around the world and at the UN. The problem is that U.N. agencies control their own investigative functions and deal with disciplinary matters internally. The result is that instead of being a means of addressing misconduct and wrongdoing, the internal justice system is more of a tool for intimidating any staff members who dare to report misconduct by senior staff, such as by Krahenbuhl and his cronies. Following reports that both Switzerland and the Netherlands suspended their funding to UNRWA, Israels United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon called upon all of the international to suspend funding. The report reveals alarming, but not surprising, findings. In addition to propagating false information about its refugee population, UNRWA has in recent years worked to redirect world funds to continue this corruption industry that has served its leadership. The international community, which generously finances UNRWA, must immediately suspend the budgets assigned to the agency. Ambassador Danon said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The aid money should be gradually transferred to the UNHCR( UN High Commissioner for Refugees), instead of helping the UNRWA leadership continue engaging in a series of ethical offenses. – Ambassador Danon	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
With every refugee situation, wherever it is, however long it has been going on for, there has to be an enduring emphasis on solutions and removing obstacles to people being able to return home, this is complex work in which UNHCR is constantly engaged but which also requires all countries to come together for a common good. It is one of the great challenges of our times. – Filippo Grandi	Found on CNN 5 years ago
UNHCR does not try to discourage the refugees from returning back to Syria at all. We respect people's decisions, the individual decisions for people to return, we have huge programmes to assist refugees here in Lebanon... part of that is to talk to the refugees and to listen, listen to their concerns, listen to their needs. – Rula Amin	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
... we have asked the UNHCR to identify the exceptional cases where a child's best interests are served by resettlement to Plan UK and help us to bring them here. – Immigration Minister James Brokenshire	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have expressed serious concerns with both countries, including our deep disappointment that the individuals were sent by Thai authorities back to China ?despite being in possession of UNHCR protection documents. – Francois Lasalle	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Thailand will continue to work closely with our international partners including the UNHCR toward a more systematic screening mechanism to help make these decisions more efficient with a clear guideline for relevant agencies. – Sek Wannamethee	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The foreign ministry was not aware about the third country settlement, thailand will continue to work closely with our international partners including the UNHCR toward a more systematic screening mechanism to help make these decisions more efficient with a clear guideline for relevant agencies. – Sek Wannamethee	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Europe has the means to deal with this situation but is not dealing with it, and now, aid agencies such as UNHCR and others are having to come to Europe to respond. – William Spindler	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We will increase reception capacities to 100,000 places in Greece and in the western Balkans, i commend the Greek prime minister for this commitment to increase reception capacity in Greece to 30,000 places by the end of this year, with the UNHCR to help provide at least 20,000 more places in Greece. – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We, at UNHCR, are deeply shocked by this incident. – Boris Cheshirkov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think a great deal has been done by UNHCR, you have to blame politicians. They've got the figures of the numbers that have died over the past 10 years in the Mediterranean. They shouldn't need a photograph to galvanize them. – Peter Sutherland	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Europe will be faced with a refugee situation similar to the one that led to the creation of UNHCR in 1950. – El Hillo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Unless something big is done to resolve this conflict through political means, the human train that has started moving out of Syria and the neighborhood will continue to be running for many months to come, europe will be faced with a refugee situation similar to the one that led to the creation of UNHCR in 1950. – El Hillo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are disposed to take more people from this troubled region, we are open to providing more financial assistance to the UNHCR. – Prime Minister Tony Abbott	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In many urban settings, the demand for RSD exceeds processing capacities. In Bangkok, UNHCR has been working to speed up processing times. – Vivian Tan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The UNHCR is the mother of human rights but they’re essentially denying human rights, the West has to know the persecution the Christians face in Pakistan and in Thailand. Who will speak for us when those who speak will speak for the government? – Raymond John	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Human Rights Watch's going to be very important for front-line states to provide full and unimpeded access to the UNHCR and assess whether they are eligible, the one-year deadline is only going to happen if there are impartial assessments( of refugee status claims) by international agencies like the UNHCR. – Phil Robertson	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The UNHCR is making final preparations for a huge airlift of humanitarian aid into Yemen's Sanaa, to take place over the next days if today's proposed ceasefire comes into effect and holds. – Adrian Edwards	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
With the violence that's plagued northeast Nigeria spilling over into Niger, Cameroon and Chad, UNHCR is now calling for urgent humanitarian access to refugees and internally displaced people in these countries to provide urgently needed assistance, for many refugees, for locals, for aid workers too, the situation is now becoming increasingly terrifying. – Adrian Edwards	Found on CNN 9 years ago
They confirmed to UNHCR that they had left on Saturday from Libya on rubber dinghies and had been at sea for days, without food and water. – Andrej Mahecic	Found on CNN 9 years ago

UNHCR remains firmly opposed to arrangements that seek to transfer refugees and asylum-seekers to third countries in the absence of sufficient safeguards and standards. Such arrangements simply shift asylum responsibilities, evade international obligations, and are contrary to the letter and spirit of the Refugee Convention.

– Gillian Triggs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I have been watching the United Nations, UNHCR distribute cash debit cards to migrants. They’re providing food, basic necessities, prescription drugs. They call it movement assistance, which is to say they're providing, transportation money so that migrants can continue moving forward.

– Todd Bensman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The state in which a boat in distress is first identified bears the primary responsibility for providing or ensuring a place of safety, uNHCR is deeply concerned by recent delays in rescue and disembarkation for refugees in distress at sea.

– Catherine Stubberfield

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Peter Anthony Gallo, an international lawyer and former investigator for the UNs own watchdog, the OIOS, told Fox News that Peter Anthony Gallo was not surprised by the allegations. [ They ] do not surprise me in the slightest ; there is nothing unusual in them and they could just as easily have come from any one of a number of Organizations in the UN system because they reflect the management culture of disregard for the staff, disregard for the rules and a general air of entitlement and impunity, he said. Gallo who himself was a whistleblower at the U.N. and now director of, Hear their Cries, a group that reports on sexual abuse and exploitation around the world and at the UN. The problem is that U.N. agencies control their own investigative functions and deal with disciplinary matters internally. The result is that instead of being a means of addressing misconduct and wrongdoing, the internal justice system is more of a tool for intimidating any staff members who dare to report misconduct by senior staff, such as by Krahenbuhl and his cronies. Following reports that both Switzerland and the Netherlands suspended their funding to UNRWA, Israels United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon called upon all of the international to suspend funding. The report reveals alarming, but not surprising, findings. In addition to propagating false information about its refugee population, UNRWA has in recent years worked to redirect world funds to continue this corruption industry that has served its leadership. The international community, which generously finances UNRWA, must immediately suspend the budgets assigned to the agency. Ambassador Danon said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The aid money should be gradually transferred to the UNHCR( UN High Commissioner for Refugees), instead of helping the UNRWA leadership continue engaging in a series of ethical offenses.

– Ambassador Danon

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

With every refugee situation, wherever it is, however long it has been going on for, there has to be an enduring emphasis on solutions and removing obstacles to people being able to return home, this is complex work in which UNHCR is constantly engaged but which also requires all countries to come together for a common good. It is one of the great challenges of our times.

– Filippo Grandi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

UNHCR does not try to discourage the refugees from returning back to Syria at all. We respect people's decisions, the individual decisions for people to return, we have huge programmes to assist refugees here in Lebanon... part of that is to talk to the refugees and to listen, listen to their concerns, listen to their needs.

– Rula Amin

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

... we have asked the UNHCR to identify the exceptional cases where a child's best interests are served by resettlement to Plan UK and help us to bring them here.

– Immigration Minister James Brokenshire

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have expressed serious concerns with both countries, including our deep disappointment that the individuals were sent by Thai authorities back to China ?despite being in possession of UNHCR protection documents.

– Francois Lasalle

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Thailand will continue to work closely with our international partners including the UNHCR toward a more systematic screening mechanism to help make these decisions more efficient with a clear guideline for relevant agencies.

– Sek Wannamethee

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The foreign ministry was not aware about the third country settlement, thailand will continue to work closely with our international partners including the UNHCR toward a more systematic screening mechanism to help make these decisions more efficient with a clear guideline for relevant agencies.

– Sek Wannamethee

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Europe has the means to deal with this situation but is not dealing with it, and now, aid agencies such as UNHCR and others are having to come to Europe to respond.

– William Spindler

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We will increase reception capacities to 100,000 places in Greece and in the western Balkans, i commend the Greek prime minister for this commitment to increase reception capacity in Greece to 30,000 places by the end of this year, with the UNHCR to help provide at least 20,000 more places in Greece.

– European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We, at UNHCR, are deeply shocked by this incident.

– Boris Cheshirkov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think a great deal has been done by UNHCR, you have to blame politicians. They've got the figures of the numbers that have died over the past 10 years in the Mediterranean. They shouldn't need a photograph to galvanize them.

– Peter Sutherland

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Europe will be faced with a refugee situation similar to the one that led to the creation of UNHCR in 1950.

– El Hillo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Unless something big is done to resolve this conflict through political means, the human train that has started moving out of Syria and the neighborhood will continue to be running for many months to come, europe will be faced with a refugee situation similar to the one that led to the creation of UNHCR in 1950.

– El Hillo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are disposed to take more people from this troubled region, we are open to providing more financial assistance to the UNHCR.

– Prime Minister Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In many urban settings, the demand for RSD exceeds processing capacities. In Bangkok, UNHCR has been working to speed up processing times.

– Vivian Tan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The UNHCR is the mother of human rights but they’re essentially denying human rights, the West has to know the persecution the Christians face in Pakistan and in Thailand. Who will speak for us when those who speak will speak for the government?

– Raymond John

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Human Rights Watch's going to be very important for front-line states to provide full and unimpeded access to the UNHCR and assess whether they are eligible, the one-year deadline is only going to happen if there are impartial assessments( of refugee status claims) by international agencies like the UNHCR.

– Phil Robertson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The UNHCR is making final preparations for a huge airlift of humanitarian aid into Yemen's Sanaa, to take place over the next days if today's proposed ceasefire comes into effect and holds.

– Adrian Edwards

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

With the violence that's plagued northeast Nigeria spilling over into Niger, Cameroon and Chad, UNHCR is now calling for urgent humanitarian access to refugees and internally displaced people in these countries to provide urgently needed assistance, for many refugees, for locals, for aid workers too, the situation is now becoming increasingly terrifying.

– Adrian Edwards

Found on CNN
9 years ago

They confirmed to UNHCR that they had left on Saturday from Libya on rubber dinghies and had been at sea for days, without food and water.

– Andrej Mahecic

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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