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Eritrean Migration: Ignored Context, Cooked Numbers

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By Metkel Sewra, To assess Eritrean migration by relying on UNHCR’s numbers “is to fall prey and be entrapped by an unreliable dataset” argues Sam B. in his meticulously researched paper, Phantom Refugees and UNHCR: The Case of Eritrean Refugees and Migrants. UNHCR’s datasheets have long been discredited through fact-based research such as the one […]

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UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines: Factual Findings or Recycled Defamation?

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By Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I. Background and Overview In April 2009, the UNHCR issued a 35-page booklet entitled “UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs for Asylum-Seekers from Eritrea”. UNHCR further published the second Guidelines on 20 April 2011. This 37-page document was essentially a replica of the first publication in terms […]

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