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Displaced people now live in rough conditions in the north. Photo:
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UNHCR welcomes Nordic NGO refugee campaign
Stockholm, 25 September 2007
Twenty non-governmental organisations are 25 September launching the region
wide campaign “Keep Them Safe”, which aims to strengthen the protection
of persons fleeing generalized violence and gross human rights abuses.
“The Nordic countries are in many ways examples to the world of good
humanitarian practice and to UNHCR, they are very important and much appreciated
partners in the refugee cause,” says Hans ten Feld, Representative
for UNHCR in the Baltic and Nordic countries. “As it stands, however,
the international protection regime does not always ensure people fleeing
situations of generalised violence the international protection they need.
Not even in the Nordics, despite recent positive developments in some of
the countries.” |
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