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2012

May

• Protection Internship Opportunity

April

• UNHCR welcomes adoption of Joint EU Resettlement Programme

March

• Publication of Guidance on the International Protection needs of Asylum Seekers from the Somali city of Galkacyo

January

• UNHCR Head of Office launches new LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees Training Project

• Safe at Last? - New UNHCR Report on Law and Practice in EU M.S. for asylum seekers fleeing indiscriminate violence

• UNHCR ‘60 Years’ Photo Exhibition on display for launch of Dún Laoghaire Integration Strategy and Action Plan

• Court of Justice of the European Union makes judgement on transfer of asylum seekers under Dublin II

2011

November

• INIS Now Accepting Applications for New Irish Travel Document

October

• UN Refugee Agency in Ireland launch “do 1 thing” campaign

September

• Stories of Survival and Safe Haven Arrive in Dún Laoghaire

August

• Important Update from INIS on the New Convention Travel Documents System

June

• UNHCR photo exhibition, 60 Years - Stories of Survival and Safe Haven, to feature in PhotoIreland Festival

• UNHCR Head of Office delivers speech to mark launch of UNHCR photo exhibition and World Refugee Day

• World Refugee Day Kicks Into Action with the UNHCR/SARI Fair Play Cup on 18 June

• UNHCR to Launch Photo Exhibition 60 Years – Stories of Survival and Safe Haven

March

• UNHCR submission for the Universal Periodic Review on Ireland

February

• UNHCR Ireland statement on need for introduction of single procedure

2010

December

• 60th Anniversary: UNHCR marks landmark with appeal for renewed commitment to helping the world’s forcibly displaced

October

• UN Refugee Chief uses Oxford University speech to call for international action on global refugee crisis

September

• Life as a Refugee is No Picnic

June

• UNHCR Ireland and SARI make a winning team on World Refugee Day

• UNHCR Ireland Kicking Off World Refugee Day on 20th June

May

• UNHCR Ireland to take part in Africa Day Dublin

2009

September

• UNHCR’s annual Executive Committee meeting next week

• The United Nations sixty-fourth General Assembly

July

• UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visits Ireland

June

• UNHCR’s visit to Kilkenny to meet resettled Sudanese refugees

• NUJ launches guide for reporting on refugees with UNHCR

• UNHCR and TCD hold conference on separated children

February

• UNHCR chief Guterres signs funding agreement with Ireland

2008

October

• UNHCR backs new Irish campaign against people smuggling

August

• Irish-based web links hands and hearts

January

• UNHCR welcomes draft Irish asylum law

• It’s a long way from Myanmar for Karen refugees

2007

December

• Irish athletes give sportswear, hope to refugees in Georgia

July

• Irish Girl Guides reaching out to refugees

April

• Ireland’s annual funding to UNHCR tops US$20 million for first time

February

• UNHCR welcomes draft bill that will let refugee doctors practise in Ireland

• Irish Red Cross to help reunite refugee families in Ireland

2005

December

• Student journalists face the challenge of reporting on asylum

July

• Facing up to asylum in Ireland

• Ireland to resettle more refugees, says Minister

2004

October

• Irish government consults refugees on integration for the first time

June

• UNHCR urges Ireland to resettle more refugees 25 years after first Vietnamese arrive

April

• Ireland grants refugees and asylum seekers right to vote

2003

November

• Lubbers launches UN appeal in Dublin; Government pledges 6.7m euros

April

• “Invisible”, but refugee women play key integration role