{"id":35484,"date":"2023-05-05T09:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T09:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/u-n-refugee-agency-calls\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T09:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T09:14:19","slug":"un-refugee-agency-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/un-refugee-agency-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"UN refugee agency calls on governments not to return people to Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) on Friday called on governments to allow civilians fleeing Sudan into their territory and not to send them back to the conflict-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re advising governments not to return people to Sudan because of the conflict that&#8217;s going on there,&#8221; Elizabeth Tan, UNHCR&#8217;s Director of International Protection, told reporters at a briefing in Geneva. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This applies to Sudanese nationals, to foreign nationals, including refugees who are being hosted in Sudan, stateless persons, as well as those who do not have a passport or any other form of identification,&#8221; Tan said.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict in Sudan has forced about 100,000 people to flee to neighbouring countries, according to the UN, and has hindered aid deliveries in a country where about one-third of people already relied on humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Tan said there was no indication that civilians from Sudan were not being allowed to enter neighbouring countries, even though there was a build-up of people at the border with Egypt. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are likely to be high levels of international protection needs amongst those who are fleeing,&#8221; Tan said of civilians fleeing Sudan.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Gabrielle T\u00e9trault-Farber, Editing by Rachel More)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/u-n-refugee-agency-calls\/the-united-nations-headquarters-building-is-pictured-though-a-window\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4408L-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4408L-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) on Friday called on governments to allow civilians fleeing Sudan into their territory and not to send them back to the conflict-torn country. &#8220;We&#8217;re advising governments not to return people to Sudan because of the conflict that&#8217;s going on there,&#8221; Elizabeth Tan, UNHCR&#8217;s Director of International Protection, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":35485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-35484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4408L-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35507,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35484\/revisions\/35507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}