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Article: U.N.-REFUGEES: UNHCR UNDER FIRE FOR "VOLUNTARY" REPATRIATION
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- April 30, 1997
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Inter Press Service English News Wire
04-30-1997
WASHINGTON, Apr. 30 (IPS) -- The "voluntary" repatriation of
refugees in Africa and Asia by the United Nations body charged with
protecting them was not really voluntary at all, according to a
prominent U.S. human rights organization.
"Uncertain Refuge," a report by the New York-based Human Rights
Watch (HRW), has accused the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) of losing sight of its mandate to protect exiles in the
interests of "return-oriented" solutions to refugee crises.
The UNHCR's preferred policy since the 1980s has been the
voluntary return of refugees to their home country, as opposed to
resettlement in a third country or ...