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PRESS RELEASES |
11 July 2010 – This year, some 60 countries are collecting data and counting people as part of the 2010 census process. 26 June 2010 – As we prepare for this September’s United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals, we must recognize the major impediment to development posed by drug abuse and illicit trafficking. As this year’s theme stresses, it is time to “Think Health, Not Drugs”. 26 June 2010 – Torture is a crime under international law. The prohibition of torture is absolute and unambiguous. UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK, 23 June 2010 – Updated data on mortality rates among mothers and young children are likely to encourage G8 leaders, who at their meeting later this week will make this health issue – long considered a neglected area of international development efforts – a 2010 priority.
23 June 2010 – On the annual observance of Public Service Day, we pay tribute to public servants everywhere who have improved the lives of others in their communities. Ashgabat, 22 June 2010 – The high-level delegation of the European Union visited the UN House in Ashgabat on June 17 to get acquainted with the UN experience of work in the sphere of human rights in Turkmenistan. 20 June 2010 – On this observance of World Refugee Day, we must note a troubling trend: the decline in the number of refugees who are able to go home. |
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UNRCCA and UNHCR organize International Seminar on Afghanistan |
UNRCCA and UNHCR organize International Seminar on Afghanistan: Recent Developments in Security and Groups at Risk  Ashgabat, 18 March 2009 – A one day international seminar on recent developments in Afghanistan hosted by the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) and jointly organized with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in consultation and coordination with the Government of Turkmenistan. The seminar intends to provide information about persons and groups at risk in Afghanistan and who are thus likely to require international protection if they seek asylum abroad. Participants will include Ambassadors from Central Asian countries and other countries neighboring Afghanistan, government officials, migration experts, judges and representatives of international organizations in the region.
The seminar is one in a series of seminars regularly organized by UNHCR to assist governments of asylum countries in obtaining reliable information about the situation in refugee producing countries, thus enabling the governments to determine the status of potential refugees. Representatives of the EU Special Representative for Afghanistan and UNHCR will provide an overview of the current situation in Afghanistan, and of the situation of vulnerable individuals and groups in view of the security and political environment in that country. The protection needs of asylum seekers, legal provisions regulating refugees’ rights and status will be discussed. In accordance with the UNRCCA mandate to strengthen the UN capacity for conflict prevention, this international seminar will further highlight the importance of human security in the region in light of the Afghan conflict. *** UNHCR has a Regional Office for Central Asia based in Kazakhstan. Through its offices in countries neighboring Afghanistan, UNHCR supports the respective governments in handling the reception and protection of asylum seekers and refugees. The Agency has been represented in Turkmenistan since 1995. UNRCCA was established in 2007 and is based in Turkmenistan. By resorting to preventive diplomacy, UNRCCA facilitates the efforts to address threats that face Central Asia in cooperation with the Governments of the region and other international organizations. |
