Marking World Refugee Day on Friday 20 June, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said that providing protection for refugees today is vastly more challenging than when his office began work in 1951 trying to find solutions for Europeans uprooted in the aftermath of World War II. “Old barriers to human mobility have fallen and new patterns of movement have emerged, including forms of forced displacement that were not envisaged by the 1951 UN Refugee Convention,” Guterres said from Kenya, where he saw firsthand thousands of Somali refugees uprooted from their conflict-torn country, and Kenyans in the Rift Valley who were displaced in recent post-election violence.
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Publisher:
UNHCR
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Type / Script:
Press Release
in English
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Keywords:
REFUGEES, SOMALI REFUGEES, REFUGEE PROTECTION, HUMAN RIGHTS, CONFLICT, FOOD SHORTAGE, RESETTLEMENT, RESETTLEMENT POLICY, PROTRACTED REFUGEE SITUATION, REFUGEE RECEIVING COUNTRY, REFUGEE ASSISTANCE, REFUGEE CAMPS, REFUGEE LAW, REFUGEE PASPORT, REFUGEE PLACEMENT, REFUGEE PROCESSING CENTRE, REFUGEE PROTECTION, REFUGEE REGISTRATION, WOMEN REFUGEE, REPATRIATION
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Thematic Group:
UNHCR
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Refugees and Migration
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Thesaurus:
13.01.00
- Protection Of And Assistance To Refugees And Displaced Persons
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