Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokesperson Adrian Edwards said on Tuesday the necessary safeguards for potential returnees are absent, noting restrictions on aid and media access and the continued arrival of refugees in Bangladesh.
Date: Jan 27, 2018
Category: World
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UNHCR on 'full alert' as 11000 Rohingya flee in a day
Were back in a situation of full alert as far as influxes are concerned. It is a big increase to see 11,000, Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told a news briefing in Geneva on Tuesday.
Date: Oct 10, 2017
Category: World
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Refugees in Greece 'could freeze to death' in snow due to poor winter preparations
"We are worried," Adrian Edwards, a spokesperson for UNHCR said in Geneva. "Slowness in registration or identifying vulnerable individuals and, previously, a shortage of suitable spaces on the mainland have been factors delaying moves. Among other things this has contributed to serious overcrowding
Date: Jan 11, 2017
Category: World
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Syrian government allows U.N. to beef up monitoring in Aleppo
"All the borders of Syria are very tightly managed at present. People, we understand, are being allowed to cross into Turkey when they come. But I think this is speculative as we are not yet seeing people move across in relation to Aleppo," UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards said.
Date: Dec 20, 2016
Category: World
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Syria: UN refugee agency spotlights growing shelter needs as thousands flee Aleppo violence
astern districts are now in unfinished or partly-destroyed buildings. Unsanitary conditions and overcrowding are already challenges in a congested city with few open spaces, Adrian Edwards, a spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told reporters in Geneva.
Date: Dec 02, 2016
Category: World
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News in the Humanosphere: Boko Haram leader wounded in airstrike
ilitants, who overran the northern city more than two years ago. A spokesman for the agency, Adrian Edwards, said it was scrambling to build encampments in six locations in northern Iraq to handle such an influx, which could inflate the countrys displaced-person population by more than a third. Mr.
Date: Aug 24, 2016
Category: World
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Iraq: UN refugee agency readies for massive displacement amid military offensive in Mosul
Already, in recent months, some 213,000 people have fled their homes in different parts of the country, Adrian Edwards, a spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told journalists at the regular press briefing in Geneva today.
Date: Aug 23, 2016
Category: World
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Nigeria military advances uncover vast humanitarian needs
At present, and with the military campaign still in progress, the situation is shifting and remains dangerous and volatile, UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards told a news briefing in Geneva on Friday (August 19).