The Reykjavik City Welfare Board confirmed today it wants to welcome refugees from the recent earthquake in Haiti. Read the full story

Iceland’s Minister for Justice and Human Rights is looking into whether Haitian refugees can be brought to Iceland. Read the full story

A refugee from Sierra Leone who went into hiding when authorities decided to deport him from Iceland has sent a video plea to the Icelandic nation on YouTube. A friend of the man says that he does not intend to come out of hiding before his case is reopened. Police have been looking for the man. Read the full story

Sweden has joined a dozen fellow European nations in agreeing to UNHCR quotas for the acceptance of Eritrean and Somali refugees from camps in Sudan and Kenya. The UNHCR is the refugee division of the United Nations and it has been working to get its quota proposal accepted on a global scale. Read the full story

The Danish immigration minister has made an about turn on her policy of accepting Iraqi refugees under the United Nations agreement. Just eight weeks ago Immigration Minister Birthe Ronn Hornbech announced that Denmark would be accepting a quota of refugees from the Arabic nation. Read the full story

When the Copenhagen police forcibly evicted 19 Iraqi asylum seekers from a church in Norrebro, their tactics were anything but gentle. Such was the heavy-handed approach to rounding up the Iraqis from their shelter in Brorson’s Church that cries of outrage are ringing out from all quarters. Read the full story

The refugee support group Asylret has come forward and told Danish police that 44 of the Iraqi asylum seekers who were staying in Denmark have disappeared. The group of 80-plus Iraqis was facing forced repatriation to their home country, prompting more than half of them to flee into hiding. Read the full story

The BBC has covered the story of the group of Palestinian refugees who recently moved from a camp in Iraq to Akranes, a short distance north of the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik.

The report features an interview with Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, stating that single mothers do well in Iceland and that she has high hopes for the refugees’ integration and Read the full story

Icelandic news website, Visir.is reports that the Palestinian refugees who arrived in Iceland late Monday evening were surprisingly well given the long journey they had undertaken from Iraq – so says Linda Bjork Gudrunardottir, the refugee project manager.

Visir contacted Gudrunardottir Tuesday morning because she was among the group accompanying the refugees on the last leg of their trip, from London Read the full story

A group of Palestinian refugees will land this evening at Iceland’s Keflavik Airport and be taken straight to the western town of Akranes. The group is made up of 29 women and children who had previously been living in the Al Waleed refugee camp in Iraq, Frettabladid reports.

The group’s arrival is in accordance with government policy on the reception of refugees, which states that Iceland should take 20 to 30 per year.

The refugees will move in to flats provided by the town of Akranes and the Akranes branch of the Icelandic Red Cross is reported to have furnished and decorated the flats and is also collecting clothes.

Three support families will be on hand to help each refugee family arriving in Akranes and one in Reykjavik. Their role will be to support the people in their new and strange environment.

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