Posted on 04 October 2009. Tags: Iraq, refugees, Sweden, unhcr
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
Posted in European Union, International, MBL, Politics, Society, Sweden
Posted on 25 September 2008. Tags: akranes, BBC, Iceland, Iraq, palestine, palestinian, refugees, unhcr
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
Posted in General, Iceland, International, MBL, Politics, Society