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<title><![CDATA[Syria Crisis: UNHCR urges European Union states to honour their asylum system principles]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[These include ensuring access to territory, access to asylum procedures and harmonized approaches to the adjudication of asylum claims.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[German scholarship helps refugees become class acts]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The German government has offered young refugees in India additional DAFI scholarships for higher education, giving them an opportunity to earn degrees and improve their lives.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR annual report shows 42 million people uprooted worldwide]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The number of people forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution worldwide stood at 42 million at the end of last year amid a sharp slowdown in repatriation and more prolonged conflicts resulting in...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Iraqi refugees leave Jordan, Syria in first resettlement to Germany]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[  The first group of Iraqi refugees destined for Germany from Syria and Jordan left yesterday on a specially chartered plane from Damascus. The 122 people were selected following a swift decision made...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Resettlement to Germany of Iraqi refugees in Syria gets under way]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A group of 122 vulnerable Iraqi refugees fly to northern German from Syria as a government programme to resettle 2,500 Iraqis officially gets under way.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[First Iraqi family departs Jordan for resettlement in Germany]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Germany's resettlement programme for Iraqi refugees gets under way as a family of three leaves Jordan for a new life in the southern city of Stuttgart.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rwandan refugee qualifies as a doctor thanks to DAFI programme]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A Rwandan refugee who found safety in South Africa has now added the title doctor before his name - thanks to the DAFI scholarship programme.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Central, Eastern Europe aim to improve refugee status decisions]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Eight European Union countries, now meeting in Budapest, are to spend 18 months reviewing and developing the quality of their asylum status decisions.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR's recommendations to the EU German Presidency]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ On January 1, 2007, Germany will take over the Presidency of the EU. In a public document presented to the German government this week, UNHCR makes a series of recommendations on key refugee protection...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan students mark 15th year of German scholarship]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative (DAFI) in Pakistan is one of the longest-running such scholarships in the world. More than 900 Afghans have received tertiary education thanks to this programme, but much more needs to be done to bridge the funding gap for younger students.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A 'tsunami' in the Democratic Republic of the Congo every six months: Guterres urges help for one of the world's most under-funded emergencies]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[In his first official visit to Germany, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has appealed to the international community to better support the desperately under-funded humanitarian emergency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[50 years on in Germany, Eastern Europe's displaced still remember UNHCR]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[After the end of World War II, millions of people found themselves living outside their own country, including many slave labourers from Eastern Europe taken to Germany by the Nazis. One of UNHCR's first programmes was to provide housing and education for the most vulnerable of these uprooted people. Some 50 years later, the benefits of that programme are still being felt.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 5 Jan 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Revocation procedures alarm Iraqi refugees in Germany]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[More than 18,000 refugees in Germany, most of them Iraqis, are now subject to so-called revocation procedures stating that refugees should have their status revoked if the preconditions for granting asylum have ceased to exist. UNHCR has stressed that no Iraqis should be forced to return to the uncertainty at home.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New German immigration law includes advances in refugee protection, says UNHCR]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The German Federal Council (Bundesrat) has passed a new immigration law that widens the scope of refugee protection to include people facing non-state and gender-specific persecution. So-called complementary or subsidiary protection is also strengthened.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2004 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Symposium focuses on future of refugee protection in Germany, EU]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The two-day event in Berlin touched on the strengths and weaknesses of a draft immigration law in Germany - including improved protection for victims of non-state and gender-specific persecution - while discussing issues related to the harmonisation of asylum policy in the European Union.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bonn exhibition tells story behind refugee faces and figures]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[An exhibition in Germany's former capital, Bonn, features extraordinary portraits of displaced children taken by world-famous photographer Sebastião Salgado, with an accompanying installation by artist Helen Escobedo.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Germany: draft immigration law before Parliament]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ As I speak, a draft for a new immigration law is being reviewed by the German Parliament. UNHCR warmly welcomes two aspects of this draft legislation in particular: if the law is passed, for the first...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 1 Mar 2002 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Germany: UNHCR welcomes proposed new immigration law]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Earlier this week, the German government announced that it intends to introduce a new immigration law which will stipulate that people who are subject to persecution by so-called non-state agents of persecution...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR applauds Germany's proposal to modify immigration law]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Germany's decision to modify its immigration law to make it possible for victims of persecution from "non-state agents" to qualify for refugee status was applauded by the UN agency.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[HC's visits to Germany, France:]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Mr. Lubbers returned last night from a four-day visit to Berlin and Paris. In Paris, he met Wednesday and Thursday with several ministers involved in asylum and refugee issues, as well as Prime Minister...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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