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The refugee dilemma: UAE paper

April 9, 2013 13:31
The United Nations aid agencies serving the uprooted Syrian refugees are broke. They say insufficient funds and wayward approach of the international community is acting as an impediment in catering to the needs and necessities of the people in Diaspora. The Unicef and UNHCR say that they won't be able to extend their services, as mounting number of refugees and paucity of aid is creating an ultimate deadlock. "Their main concern is with provision of life-saving aid to Syrian refugees, and that include a good number of women and children.

U.N. may cut food aid to Syrian refugees due to cash shortage

April 9, 2013 11:47
By Dominic Evans and Tom Miles BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Tuesday it will halt food aid to 400,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon next month unless it receives urgent new funding. The cash shortage is part of a wider financial shortfall that the organisation says is threatening its efforts to help nearly 1.3 million Syrian refugees and almost 4 million more people displaced inside Syria by the two-year conflict.

UN runs out of cash on Syrian refugee spending

April 9, 2013 10:03
The United Nations gave its starkest warning yet today that it would soon run out of cash to cope with the vast influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan and other neighbouring countries. Marixie Mercado, spokeswoman for the U.N. Children's Fund UNICEF, told a U.N.

UN agencies face 'impossible' choices on Syria aid

April 9, 2013 10:01
UN agencies helping to care for the millions driven from their homes in Syria by two years of conflict warned on Tuesday that they face "impossible" choices as funding fails to meet soaring needs. "Agencies including UN and NGOs are forced into the impossible situation of having to prioritise equally compelling programmes," Lebanon representative for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Ninette Kelley said in a statement.

Asylum-seeker boat reaches Australian mainland

April 9, 2013 03:15
A boat packed with 66 asylum-seekers managed to evade detection by border patrols and arrived at a port on the Australian mainland Tuesday, officials said. The boat was spotted within the harbour limits of Geraldton in Western Australia, more than 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) south of Australia's Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island where asylum-seekers are usually intercepted. "Customs and Border Protection have advised a suspected irregular entry vessel arrived within the harbour limits of Geraldton this afternoon," Home Affairs Jason Clare confirmed.

Amman seeks more aid for Syria refugee influx

April 7, 2013 12:31
Jordan on Sunday urged the International Organisation for Migration to provide the kingdom with more aid to cope with the massive influx of refugees from neighbouring Syria. Faced with a rising tide of refugees fleeing violence in Syria, Planning and International Cooperation Minister Ibrahim Saif tackled the subject at a meeting with the visiting IOM director general, William Lacy Swing. They discussed ways to step up aid to Jordan, according to an official statement.

Japan provides USD 6 m to support UNHCR’s refugee programmes in Pakistan

April 6, 2013 13:03
Japan has provided USD 6 million in support of the UNHCR’s refugee programmes in Pakistan and the funds will support UNHCR’s commitment to provide primary school education to around 75,000 refugee children in different refugee villages. The funding will also bolster UNHCR’s efforts in providing assistance to Afghan refugees in the areas of primary health care, provision of legal services, specialised services for children at risk, and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.

UN refugee agency says it is worried by reports of mass deportations of Syrians from Turkey

April 6, 2013 13:01
The United Nations refugee agency said today it was very worried by reports of mass deportations of Syrians from Turkey and said it had taken up the issue with Turkish authorities. Turkish officials said that Turkey sent hundreds of refugees back to Syria after clashes with military police at their camp near the border in a protest over living conditions, although a government official later denied this and said that 50-60 Syrians had returned voluntarily.

Japan provides US$ 6 million to support UNHCR’S Refugee programs in Pakistan

April 6, 2013 10:48
The Government of Japan has provided US$ 6 million in support of the UNHCR’s refugee programmes in Pakistan. The Japanese funds will support UNHCR’s commitment to provide primary school education to around 75,000 refugee children in different refugee villages. The funding will also bolster UNHCR’s efforts in providing assistance to Afghan refugees in the areas of primary health care, provision of legal services, specialized services for children at risk, and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.

35,000 Syria refugees have gone home

April 5, 2013 07:16
Almost 35,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from Jordan since their country's conflict broke out in March 2011, but a larger number joined the exodus last month alone, a government spokesman said on Friday. "34,824 Syrian refugees have gone back to their country since the start of the crisis," Anmar al-Hammud, spokesman for the refugee file, told AFP. He said around 2,500 of them had returned at their own request from the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan on Thursday with the assistance of Jordanian security services.
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