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@RefugeesMedia - 10/10/2022
Some 96 per cent of the refugees have now returned home, and Ivorians that have chosen to stay abroad are being regularized by host countries.
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@RefugeesMedia - 10/10/2022
And we must continue to make progress in the eradication of statelessness. I appeal to all States to adopt the necessary laws, policies, and practices to help bring millions more out of the shadows of statelessness before the end of the #iBelong campaign in 2024.
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@RefugeesMedia - 10/10/2022
I spent #WorldRefugeeDay this year in Côte d’Ivoire, a country that emerged from years of civil strife during which hundreds of thousands of its citizens fled into exile.
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@RefugeesMedia - 10/10/2022
If we do not receive at least an additional US$700 million, especially for our most underfunded operations, between now and the end of this year, we will be forced to make severe cuts with negative and sometimes dramatic consequences for refugees and host communities.
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@RefugeesMedia - 10/10/2022
This year, we will exceed US$1 billion from private donors. Yet despite these and other positive developments, I regret to inform you that – for the first time during my tenure – I am worried about UNHCR’s financial situation.
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@RefugeesMedia - 10/10/2022
Legally; morally; and practically I oppose efforts to evade a State’s responsibility by externalizing its asylum obligations, and I hope that those thinking of those approaches will reconsider carefully.
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@RefugeesMedia - 10/10/2022
I also reject what we have heard some politicians on this continent tell their voters: that Ukrainians are ‘real refugees’ while others – fleeing similar horrors, but from different parts of the world – are not. There is only one word to define this attitude: racist.
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@RefugeesMedia - 10/10/2022
Temporary protection proved to be not only a humanitarian instrument but a very effective tool to receive and include refugees: four million have now registered.
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@RefugeesMedia - 10/10/2022
The situation inside Ukraine remains grave. At least 6.2 million people are internally displaced and many more need humanitarian support.
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@RefugeesMedia - 10/10/2022
Today, is another day of anguish for the Ukrainian people. As we speak, my colleagues are reporting to me horrifying strikes on urban centers in Kyiv, Dnipro, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Odesa, and elsewhere.
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