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UNHCR welcomes announcement of Independent Paralympic Team comprising two refugees
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UNHCR , 26/08/2016
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warmly welcomes today’s announcement by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) of two refugees who will compete as a team in the upcoming 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The participation of a first-ever refugee team in the Paralympic Games is an example of what can be accomplished when refugees with disabilities are given the opportunity to pursue their dreams and apply their skills. While all forcibly displaced people face challenges, those with disabilities are often at heightened risk because they are less likely to be involved in decisions that concern them, face numerous barriers to accessing assistance, and thus risk having their key protection needs go unmet. As such, promoting their active inclusion and full participation in society – including through sports – is key to their protection and well-being.
“The Independent Par... |
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End of large scale pre-registration on mainland Greece
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UNHCR / Greek Asylum Service / EASO, 01/08/2016
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Athens, 1 August 2016
The Asylum Service announces that the operation to pre-register applications for international protection on mainland Greece, through the dedicated registration centres that were temporarily set up, has now come to an end.
Those who have not been able to pre-register yet and wish to apply for asylum can do so, preferably by obtaining a registration appointment through Skype. Given that the vast majority of those who wish to pre-register have done so by now, access to the Skype system should function more efficiently.
Those who have been already pre-registered will receive soon a text message (SMS) with the date and location for their next appointment at the Asylum Service to lodge their asylum claim, including for family reunification or relocation.
The pre-registration exercise, supported financially by the European Commission, was launched on 8 June 20... |
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Over 15,500 asylum seekers pre-registered on mainland Greece
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UNHCR, 01/07/2016
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This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson William Spindler – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 1 July 2016, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
By: William Spindler | 1 July 2016 |
A large-scale exercise to pre-register asylum seekers on mainland Greece was launched on 8 June 2016 by the Greek Asylum Service with UNHCR’s support. So far, more than 15,500 people residing in open temporary accommodation structures have received asylum seeker cards, valid for one year, allowing them to reside legally in Greece and have the right to access services, pending the full lodging of their asylum application. The exercise will help to identify those eligible for family reunification or relocation to another EU country. It will also identify persons with specific needs so that they may be referred to the appropriate organizations and re... |
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Joint Press Release: The pre-registration of asylum seekers in the Greek mainland is starting today
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UNHCR / Greek Asylum Service / EASO, 08/06/2016
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Athens, 08/06/2016
The Asylum Service is launching today a large scale operation to pre-register applications for international protection, offering the possibility to third country nationals in mainland Greece to ask for asylum in the country, for family reunification or relocation to another EU member state. Pre-registration aims to cover the increasing demand for access to international protection from the approximately 49,000 people currently residing in mainland open temporary reception structures and open temporary accommodation structures. This exercise is supported financially by the European Commission. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) support its implementation.
The process is open to people who entered Greece from 1 January 2015 and prior to 20 March 2016. There is no limit to the number of those who can pre-register, and all natio... |
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GREECE: UNHCR concerned at conditions in new refugee sites and urges that alternatives be found
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UNHCR, 27/05/2016
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UNHCR is seriously concerned about sub-standard conditions at several sites in northern Greece where refugees and migrants were evacuated this week from the makeshift site at Idomeni, and urges the Greek authorities, with the financial support provided by the European Union, to find better alternatives quickly.
UNHCR agrees that the makeshift site at Idomeni on the Greek border with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, where refugees had been staying in abysmal conditions, needed to be evacuated, and notes that this has been completed without the use of force. However, the conditions of the some of these sites to which the refugees and migrants are transferred fall well below minimum standards.
Some of the refugees and migrants who had been living in Idomeni have been moved into derelict warehouses and factories, inside of which tents have been placed too tightly together. ... |
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UN Refugee Agency training to strengthen coordination in Greece response
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UNHCR, 16/05/2016
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The UN Refugee Agency kicked off a series of training workshops this week in Greece to provide additional tools on how to strengthen coordination among many partners. This will help ensure their collective efforts in support of national and local authorities deliver improved living conditions for the tens of thousands of refugees in the country.
“There are important challenges today in Greece in the refugee response but the situation is manageable,” said Giovanni Lepri, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Deputy Representative in Greece.
“Clear communication and coordination among everyone involved however is vital in ensuring all of these efforts result in prompt, effective solutions. That is exactly what our workshops aim to deliver,” Lepri said.
The first of three UNHCR Leadership and Coordination workshops started Monday in Athens and was attended ... |
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Joint press release: The registration of asylum seekers residing in open reception facilities in the mainland will begin in the next few weeks
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UNHCR / Greek Asylum Service / EASO, 14/05/2016
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Athens, 14/05/2016
The Asylum Service will conduct a pre-registration exercise for international protection in the mainland from end of May to end of July with the financial support of the European Commission (DG Home). The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) will support the Asylum Service in this exercise.
The pre-registration exercise will take several weeks to conclude, but all those who arrived in Greece before 20 March, wishing to apply for international protection in Greece and are currently residing on the mainland will be able to pre-register.
The pre-registration exercise is the first step to apply for international protection in Greece, which could eventually lead to (i) examination of the application for international protection by the Greek authorities, and potential recognition of beneficiary of internat... |
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Horrified shipwreck survivors watched as hundreds drowned
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UNHCR, 02/05/2016
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ATHENS, Greece, May 2 (UNHCR) – All Yasin Osman Ibrahim and his three-year-old son Abdulrahman could do was watch in horror as more than 500 migrants and refugees drowned two weeks ago, in one of the Mediterranean's worst shipwrecks in modern history.
Clutching Abdulrahman to his chest, Yasin stood on the deck of a wooden boat as the sea swallowed hundreds aboard a sinking, overcrowded larger boat to which people smugglers were trying to transfer them.
The screams were deafening. Almost no one could swim. Yasin, a 24-year-old Somali who had been living in a refugee camp in Yemen, searched desperately for his five relatives among the flailing people in the water.
"We thought we would die, too," he said. "We thought, 'We are next'."
Yasin lost four relatives that day: two female cousins, one male cousin, and a cousin's three-month-old daughter. Another cousin, 28-year-old Mol... |
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Syrian refugee carries Olympic flame through Athens
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UNHCR , 26/04/2016
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ATHENS, Greece, April 26 (UNHCR) – Syrian refugee Ibrahim Al-Hussein carried the Olympic flame through an Athens centre for refugees on Tuesday evening as part of the torch relay for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.
The symbolic gesture was intended to show solidarity with the world's refugees at a time when millions are fleeing war and persecution worldwide.
It was a proud moment for the 27-year-old refugee and athlete, who resumed swimming and basketball last year in Greece after his promising sports career in Syria was cut short by war -- and a 2012 bombing that led to the amputation of his right leg below the knee. Ibrahim now walks with a prosthetic.
Hundreds of refugees gathered around him as he walked with the flame held high through Eleonas, the Athens centre housing some 1,500 asylum-seekers. Ibrahim smiled even as he was mobbed by media cameras and refugees taking s... |
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Joint Press Release: Cooperation of MoI and UNHCR for the provision of assistance to refugees
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UNHCR / Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction (Alternate Minister for Migration Policy) , 23/04/2016
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Athens, 23 April 2016
PRESS RELEASE
The Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction (Alternate Minister for Migration Policy) and UNHCR are strengthening their collaboration for the provision of accommodation and assistance to the refugees who are currently in Greece.
On Wednesday, 20 April, the Alternate Minister of Interior for Migration Policy, Yiannis Mouzalas, chaired the 1st Steering Committee meeting of the organizations funded by the EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO) with €83 million, to improve the living conditions of the refugees in Greece. Following the agreement of the Alternate Minister of Interior for Migration Policy and in cooperation with him, UNHCR will assist in coordinating in the provision of the above assistance to the country. During the Steering Committee meeting, the Alternate Minister of Interior for Migration Policy n... |
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