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Article: UNHCR urged to probe SA body's 'failure to aid refugees'.(News)
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- Cape Times (South Africa)
- Article date:
- October 14, 2008
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BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH
ANGRY civil society groups have asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to launch a commission of inquiry into its Pretoria office which, they say, failed to "meet its mandate to protect refugees and displaced people" following xenophobic attacks that rocked South Africa earlier this year.
Fifteen groups, among them the Treatment Action Campaign, the Black Sash, and Cosatu, and two volunteers who have worked at Western Cape refugee camps have fired off a formal complaint about the UNHCR's Pretoria office to the organisation's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
In the 24-page document, a copy of ...