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1. kevin sinclair's hong kong

   Posted Mar 22nd 2006, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Once here, however, we are saddled with them. They arrive as tourists, go to the UNHCR office and register as political refugees. If the UN decides they qualify, they remain. The people who ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/541390/kevin-sinclairs-hong-kong
2. Refugees left with HK$300 a month after subsidy cut

   Posted Feb 26th 2012, 12:00am

   ... receiving generous financial support from donors in Hong Kong, the cash-strapped United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees decided last month it could no longer afford to pay the HK$1,500 ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/993717/refugees-left-hk300-month-after-subsidy-cut
3. UN accused of depriving refugees of their rights

   Posted Jul 10th 2006, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Social Issues Human Migration Forced Migration Refugees Social Issues United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Ng Kang-chung Human rights group says agency mishandles asylum claims, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/556124/un-accused-depriving-refugees-their-rights
4. UN body to cease aid for asylum seekers

   Posted Mar 15th 2006, 12:00am by Norma Connolly

   ... Social Issues Human Migration Forced Migration Refugees Social Issues United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Norma Connolly and Robin Kwong Reeling from lack of funds, UNHCR urges HK to take over the task The UN's refugee agency will cease funding asylum seekers in Hong Kong from May. Monique Sokhan, head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/540557/un-body-cease-aid-asylum-seekers
5. HK must do more to protect the vulnerable

   Posted Feb 19th 2008, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Social Issues Human Migration Refugees Right of Asylum Social Issues United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Hong Kong is eager to portray itself as a forward-looking city ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/626723/hk-must-do-more-protect-vulnerable
6. News - World - SYRIA

   UN says Syria conflict a humanitarian catastrophe

   Posted Apr 19th 2013, 09:24am by Reuters at the United Nations

   ... News World Un Syria Reuters at the United Nations Syrian families have been burned in their homes, people bombed waiting for bread, children tortured, raped and murdered and cities reduced ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1218073/un-says-syria-conflict-humanitarian-catastrophe
7. UN agency depriving asylum seekers of their rights, group claims

   Posted Sep 15th 2007, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... The Society for Community Organisation (Soco) also claimed the Hong Kong office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was breaching its own guidelines in handling asylum cases. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/607962/un-agency-depriving-asylum-seekers-their-rights-group-claims
8. Asylum seekers deserve humane treatment

   Posted Sep 20th 2005, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... of the responsibility and has left the cash-starved United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to shoulder the task. While the UNHCR is investigating asylum claims - a process that can take months ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/516904/asylum-seekers-deserve-humane-treatment
9. Writing off an irrecoverable debt

   Posted May 22nd 2003, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Social Issues Human Migration Forced Migration Vietnamese Diaspora Social Issues United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees We report today that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has formally asked the Hong Kong government to nullify a $1.16 billion debt owed by the agency. The money was advanced to the UNHCR from the 1970s to the 1990s when thousands of Vietnamese ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/416318/writing-irrecoverable-debt
10. Comment - Insight & Opinion

    Hong Kong should help refugees live in dignity

    Posted Mar 05th 2013, 12:00am by STAFF

    ... a weak reason to leave refugee screening to the UNHCR and turn our backs on genuine cases. Although the government has sought to fill the UN funding gap in the past by extending its humanitarian ...

    http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1177440/hong-kong-should-help-refugees-live-dignity

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